69w ago - Following up on the Showtime PS3 Media Player Version 3.4 Release Candidate, today PlayStation 3 developer Andreas Oman has officially released Showtime PS3 Media Player version 3.4.

Download: Showtime PS3 Media Player 3.4 (PKG) / Showtime PS3 Media Player 3.4 (GeoHot CFW) / Showtime PS3 Media Player 3.4 (SELF) / GIT / Showtime.SELF Version 3.4.000.dirty for multiMAN (January 25th, 2012)

To quote: Today marks the release of Showtime 3.4. For a list of most of the important bug fixes and features added, see the 3.4 page. Download the release from github.

Note: It seems Showtime still suffers from out of memory conditions now and then but I've not been able to pinpoint the exact cause of those issues. A few things were implemented just prior to the 3.4 release in order to mitigate the low memory problems.

With that said I though I could...

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...

69w ago - Following up on the previous update, PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has now released v3.3.401 of the unofficial Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack with the changes detailed below.

Download: PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.401 / PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.401 (Mirror)

PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.401 Changelog:

• Include Showtime's spotify appkey in the build
  
• Update Swedish translation
  
• Make it possible to configure if Showtime is to include all .srt files from a directory
  
• httpapi: Some commented out helpers for memory fragmentation diag.
  
• ps3: Don't play h264 constrained baseline using the cell accelerated decoder (it does not work)
  
• Add some more blacklisted file-endings (.exe and .tmp)
  

69w ago - This weekend PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has released version 3.3.390 of the unofficial Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack with the changes outlined below, as follows:

Download: PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.390 / PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.390 (Mirror #1)

PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.390 Changelog:

• Merge pull request #60 from Daisho/master
  
• Update Danish translation
  
• Update from sept 2011 to 3.4RC
  
• Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
  
• PS3: Fix more picture order problems
  

70w ago - Following up on this weekend's unofficial Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack v3.3.384 update comes an official Showtime PlayStation 3 Media Player version 3.4 Release Candidate by developer Andreas Oman.

Download: Showtime GeoHot v3.3.385.g334dc (PKG) / Showtime v3.3.385.g334dc (SELF) / Showtime v3.3.385.g334dc (PKG) / GIT

To quote: I've made a pre-release of what will soon be Showtime 3.4. It's called 3.3.384 and is available for download here.

Also in related news PS3 developer deank has updated SHOWTIME.SELF for multiMAN PS3 Backup users as well.

Download: SHOWTIME.SELF (Version 3.3.384.gc5c3a.dirty - January 13th, 2012 - 4.21 MB)

Save the downloaded file as: /dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR/SHOWTIME.SELF

• Added: XMB videos and last folder visible in Showtime