15w ago - Following up on the previous release and YouTube Plugin, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player to version 4.2 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Showtime v4.2 PKG / Showtime GH v4.2 PKG / Showtime 4.2 SELF / Showtime v04.02.000 DEX PKG by deank / GIT

Showtime PS3 Media Player v4.2 Changelog:

Some highlights:

• Virtual keyboard
  
• Integration with thetvdb.com
  
• Chapter support for movies
  
• Support for subtitle plugins
  

And as usual, a lot of bugs squashed

4.2

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27w ago - This weekend PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Facanferff has announced the release of the first Showtime PS3 Media Player skin called Oceanus for the application.

Download: Showtime PS3 Media Player Skin Oceanus / Showtime PS3 Media Player Skin Oceanus PKG (Installable from the “Package Files” options) by wizzkidd / Oceanus Skin Plugin for Showtime 04.01+ [CEX] XMB Install Package: Showtime (Standalone) / Oceanus Skin Plugin for Showtime 04.01+ [CEX] XMB Install Package: Showtime (multiMAN Edition) by facanferff

To quote from his blog (linked above): Facanferff strikes again with the first Showtime Skin Ever! The skin is called Oceanus, with it you’ll be able to use different views for a better Showtime experience.

This first version supports already several views that you can enjoy. Check it out!

• Array view (photo taken from Vevo plugin)
  
• Artists view (photo taken from Vevo plugin)

49w ago - Following up on his previous release, this weekend PlayStation 3 developer facanferff has updated the YouTube Plugin to version 1.5 for Showtime PS3 Media Player which fixes 720p / 1080p playback and more as outlined below!

Download: YouTube v1.5 Plugin for Showtime PS3 Media Player / GIT

Below are the changes, as follows:

• Add: Support for OAuth2 instead of ClientLogin (see Note 1)
  
• Add: Videos not available in user country are displayed in Orange
  
• Add: Videos that are available in HD (720p and up) are identified like that in video listing
  
• Add: Setting to list only videos that are HD
  
• Add: Filter videos by duration (see Note 2)
  
• Add: Show nickname of author of a video in video listing
  
• Add: Show Likes percentage in video listing
  
• Add: YouTube Transcribed Captions
  
• Add: YouTube Automatic Speech Captions
  
• Fix: Videos in HD/Full HD would give an error stating "CPU is too slow"
  
• Fix: The plugin would try to get empty subtitles from Universal...

54w ago - Following up on his last Testing Build revision, this weekend PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime PS3 Media to Stable Build version 3.6 followed by 3.6.1 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Showtime 3.6 PKG / Showtime 3.6 PKG (Mirror) / Showtime 3.6.1 gb5a6dfb PKG / Showtime GH 3.6 PKG / Showtime 3.6 SELF / Showtime 3.6.1 gb5a6dfb SELF / GIT

Showtime 3.6 Changelog:

Bug #416: DVD Playback Error (dvdnav Error or black screen)
Bug #442: Video Image compressed horizontally
Bug #507: Failed .iso playback
Bug #662: Showtime 3.1.203 not playing .MP4 Movies
Bug #744: V/A out of sync after pause for some time
Bug #759: Subtitle fails to...

69w ago - Today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has updated the unofficial Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack to version v3.3.409 with the changes detailed below.

Download: PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.409

PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.409 Changelog:

• Merge pull request #62 from wader/osx_fixes
  
• osx: spotlight: Assign ctype properly
  
• Fix uninitialized warning
  
• osx: spotify: Fix logic and cleanup configure arg
  
• Update Bulgarian translation
  
• Various fixes for libav 0.8
  
• Update German translation
  
• Update Italian translation
  

Andreas Oman has done some important announcements:

• An automatic build system is nearing completion
  
• He will be leaving on a six week vacation and during that period he will not do any PS3 related development
  

This essentially will have two important consequences on these unofficial builds:

1. Obviously, if there will be no update to Showtime's source code then there will be no need to compile new builds, so in the next 6 weeks you may not find new builds here.

2. When the automatic build system will be completed...