71w ago - Following up on his previous release, this weekend PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack to version 3.5.19 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack v3.5.19

Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack v3.5.19 Changelog:

• smb: Add support for domain name in authentication request
  
• osx: Fix broken windows button close
  
• Drop debug printf
  
• spotify: Fix fallout from artist picture revamp
  
• osx: Fix application exit bugs
  
• Make albumart and artist picture less dependant on last.fm
  
• htsbuf: Add htsbuf_to_rstr()
  
• Fix bug in imageset decoding
  
• http-client: Add support for gzip content encoding
  
• Add rstr_spn() helper
  
• Add datasource to audio item metadata and tables for storing album art, etc
  
• Add prop event class
  
• Remove unused/broken EVENT enum entry
  
• js: Add plugin.onEvent() for handling global events
  
• osx: Make Shift+F5 reload data model
  
• js: Refactor the event handling code
  
• fa_scanner: Make sure...

73w 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...

73w 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...

74w 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)
  

74w 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