59w ago - Following up on the previous release, today PlayStation 3 developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player Testing Build to version 3.5.72 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Showtime 3.5.72 g4757fa6 PKG / Showtime GH 3.5.72 g4757fa6 PKG / Showtime 3.5.72 g4757fa6 SELF / GIT

Showtime PS3 Media Player v3.5.72 Changelog:

3.5.69-ga3159fe

PS3: Use jemalloc instead of newlib's malloc

Using jemalloc significantly reduces memory fragmentation and thus mitigates the out of memory conditions that happens
now and then when using Showtime (in particular during movie playback)

It's also much more efficient than newlib's malloc thanks to per-thread caching of allocation and per-thread memory arenas

For more information about jemalloc, see http://http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/

3.5.61-g6dfd6a5

60w ago - Following up on his previous release, today PlayStation 3 developer Redsquirrel87 has introduced Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack v3.5.54 alongside the arrival of the Official Showtime AutoBuild System in conjunction with developer Andreas Oman.

Download: Showtime-3.5.54-g028c14a.self / Showtime-3.5.54-g028c14a.pkg / Showtime-gh-3.5.54-g028c14a.pkg / Showtime-3.4.self / Showtime-3.4.pkg / Showtime-gh-3.4.pkg / GIT

To quote: The official autobuild system is now online and fully working! For this reason there is no need of these unofficial builds anymore, so I stop to post them here.

I want to thank all people who have downloaded and used my over sixty unofficial...

61w ago - It's been awhile since his previous build release, and today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack to version 3.5.52 with the changes outlined below as follows:

Download: Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack v3.5.52

Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack v3.5.52 Changelog:

• Merge pull request #65 from whyz/vdpau_deinterlace_setting
  
• fixed spelling of Spatial
  
• removed debug log output
  
• Removed non-working runtime setting for VDPAU deinterlacer. Added resolution limit setting for deinterlacer.
  
• Add Czech translation, by Jirka Dutka
  
• conform to new settings_create_multiopt syntax
  
• merge
  
• ps3: Partial revert of a change that caused default overscan settings on PS3 to be lost
  

65w ago - Today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack to version 3.5.43 with the changes outlined below as follows:

Download: Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack v3.5.43

Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack v3.5.43 Changelog:

• glw: Make sure string concatenation of rich text formated strings works
  
• Add html_enteties_escape() helper
  
• Remove duplicate function token2string()
  
• glw/clist: Initialize position without filtering first time
  
• osx: Allow theme path to be set
  
• glw: Autorescale userinterface based on window dimensions
  
• Render image shadows in blurred mode
  
• glw: Improve clist widget a bit more
  
• Avoid NULL deref
  
• Don't use a var before initialized
  
• spotlight: Avoid NULL deref
  
• Improve some asserts
  
• imageloader: Fail early if we try to load an image with invalid request dimensions
  
• glw: Improve propsorter()
  
• prop: Fix bug in nodefilter
  
• glw: Fix error in blur shader
  
• glw: Make scurve() take an additional third arg
  
• glw: Make change() function accept property reference as trig variable
  
• glw: Improve clist widget a bit
  
• Remove...

66w ago - Following up on his previous revisions, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer NP has released a Showtime PS3 Media Player Time Waster Plugin update complete with source code below.

Download: Showtime PS3 Media Player Time Waster Plugin / GIT

To quote: Time Waster Plugin

The perfect way kill time or cheer you up with some funny videos and pictures
brought to you by:

• 9GAG
  
• Break
  
• Cheezburger Network (FailBlog, FailBook, After12...)
  
• College Humor
  
• Epic Fail
  
• Funny Or Die
  

The plugin will be uploaded to the showtime repository as soon as possible.

How to Install/Update a Plugin in Showtime

There are 3 basic ways you can install or upgrade a plugin. (All this methods were tested using Showtime version 3.5.43 but should work in older versions )

1. Use the repository (if the plugin or the update version is already present), as demonstrated in this video (http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=6h8cc1&s=5)