Showtime PS3 Media Player YouTube v1.0 Plugin is Released

86w ago - Following up on his previous Showtime TV release, this weekend PlayStation 3 developer Fabio Canada aka facanferff has released a YouTube v1.0 Showtime Plugin for the popular PS3 Media Player with details below followed by v1.0.1 on Plugin Central.

Download: Showtime PS3 Media Player YouTube v1.0 Plugin / GIT

To quote: After a month long period of beta-testing by users, here is final list of features and last minute bug fixes to bring it up to the v1.0 release:

Showtime PS3 Media Player YouTube v1.0 Plugin Features:

• Login to Youtube
  
• Standard Feeds (complete)
  
• Channel Feeds (complete)
  
• Movie Feeds (not supporting yet paid content)
  
• Trailer Feeds (complete)
  
• User Feeds (Favorites, New subscriptions, Contacts, etc.)
  
• Getting Video Information
  
• Every resolution supported
  
• Search videos
  
• Pagination (Powerful and fast!)
  
• Recommendations
  
• Get information about user
  
• Search for User Profile (see note 1)
  
• Related videos (if Advanced Youtube is enabled)
  
• Response videos (if Advanced Youtube is enabled)
  
• safeSearch
  
• Limit entries per request (to avoid for a bigger time memory fullness)
  

Changelog:

• Add: Trace messages are only shown if Debugging mode is enabled;
  
• Add: Support for background (a simple image) in the feeds view
  
• Add: Support for Channels Feeds
  
• Add: basic error handling for feeds and videos;
  
• Add: safeSearch
  
• Add: Support to get arguments from a default URL (not used in present)
  
• Fix: URL getting of a video in Advanced mode (was slowing down)
  
• Fix: playlist support;
  
• Fix: some feeds giving error 400; Added setting to limit entries per request (to avoid fast memory fullness);
  
• Fix: Title labels of feeds
  
• Fix: Paginator (was able to get only max two pages)
  
• Fix: If is unable to get ID of a specific video in a feed bypass that item (instead of avoiding loading feed)
  
• Fix: Issue avoiding loading Video Information (in advanced mode) when Views/Duration tag is not available
  
• Fix: Login giving error “Authentication without realm”
  
• Enhancement: Rewrite of User Screen (support more things now – Watch Later playlist and Recent Activity feed);
  
• Enhancement: Major rewrite of the function to get entries of a feed (more powerful now and more stable);
  
• Enhancement: In advanced mode display the resolution as it is (e.g.: hd1080)
  
• Enhancement: New logo
  

The plugin is not yet available online via the Showtime Plugin Central, but you may install it by download the zip below and putting it (UNEXTRACTED) in the following location: /dev_hdd0/game/HTSS00003/USRDIR/settings/installedplugins

To make it available in the Showtime.SELF that is launched from multiMAN, the youtube.zip should be copied to: /dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR/st_settings/installedplugins

Showtime PS3 Media Player YouTube v1.0.1 Plugin Changelog:

For those that were Beta Testers, this is the changelog since the Beta version (0.4) to the present version (1.0.1):

• Add: setting to limit entries per request (to avoid fast memory fullness);
  
• Add: Trace messages are only shown if Debugging mode is enabled;
  
• Add: Support for background (a simple image) in the feeds view
  
• Add: Support for Channels Feeds
  
• Add: basic error handling for feeds and videos;
  
• Add: safeSearch
  
• Add: Support to get arguments from a default URL (not used in present)
  
• Fix: If title of a video has special characters (such as it would fail to load;
  
• Fix: URL getting of a video in Advanced mode (was slowing down)
  
• Fix: playlist support;
  
• Fix: some feeds giving error 400;
  
• Fix: Title labels of feeds
  
• Fix: Paginator (was able to get only max two pages)
  
• Fix: If is unable to get ID of a specific video in a feed bypass that item (instead of avoiding loading feed)
  
• Fix: Issue avoiding loading Video Information (in advanced mode) when Views/Duration tag is not available
  
• Fix: Login giving error “Authentication without realm”
  
• Enhancement: Rewrite of User Screen (support more things now – Watch Later playlist and
• Recent Activity feed);
  
• Enhancement: New logo (thanks GPatel)
  
• Enhancement: Major rewrite of the function to get entries of a feed (more powerful now and more stable);
  
• Enhancement: In advanced mode display the resolution as it is (e.g.: hd1080)
  

For non-Beta Testers, here is the list of features of the plugin:

• Login to Youtube
  
• Standard Feeds (complete)
  
• Channel Feeds (complete)
  
• Movie Feeds (not supporting yet paid content)
  
• Trailer Feeds (complete)
  
• User Feeds (Favorites, New subscriptions, Contacts, etc.)
  
• Getting Video Information
  
• Every resolution supported (excluding 4k)
  
• Search videos
  
• Pagination (Powerful and fast!)
  
• Recommendations
  
• Get information about user
  
• Search for User Profile (see note 1)
  
• Related videos (if Advanced Youtube is enabled)
  
• Response videos (if Advanced Youtube is enabled)
  safeSearch
  
• Limit entries per request (to avoid for a bigger time memory fullness)
  

Note: To search for a video/channel/playlist, you have to write with an EXTERNAL keyboard what you want in the box on Showtime’s homepage (with a magnifying glass icon).

The plugin does not handle how a video is played, it is the work of Showtime, if in the middle of the video playback it fails, the audio is synched off or other, please report it to andoma.

If by any reason when navigating feeds, your ps3 crashes it is because the memory of ps3 is extremely limited, and because of that navigating extremely fast will crash Showtme itself. There have been efforts to improve the plugin since the Beta version was released so it wouldn’t need so much memory.