59w ago - Following up on the previous revision, today PlayStation 3 developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player Testing Build to version 3.5.110 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Showtime 3.5.110 g843527f PKG / Showtime GH 3.5.110 g843527f PKG / Showtime 3.5.110 g843527f SELF / GIT

Showtime PS3 Media Player v3.5.110 Changelog:

3.5.110-g843527f

ps3: Fix playback of 3.0 audio

Fixes #914

3.5.108-g6775194

ps3: Fix support for 4.0 audio channel layout

Fixes #886

3.5.105-ga4e10cc

ps3: Round timestamps to ms precision before feeding them to the SPU decoder

For some unholy reason the SPU decoder seems to hang when timestamps are not rounded to ms precision. I've no idea why.

Fixes #640
Fixes #662
Fixes #890

3.5.69-ga3159fe

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

61w 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
  

64w ago - Zipper Interactive Community Manager Chris Roper has unveiled the first in a series of training videos on how to play Unit 13 on Sony's new PS Vita handheld console.

To quote: If you're going to go up against the world's deadliest foes you're going to need every advantage that you can get.

Fortunately for you we've got inside tips on how to best tackle Unit 13′s numerous missions, game types, connectivity features and more straight from developer Zipper Interactive.

Over the next week, we'll be rolling out a three-part in-depth video series to teach you everything from the core fundamentals of how to play the game to tips on how to tackle each mission type and even how to fully take advantage of Unit 13′s networking features.

Part 1, "How to Play", shows you what it will take to run with the best-of-the-best. It covers everything from a complete control breakdown to tactical combat strategies to Unit 13′s in-depth scoring system. This is as close to a Unit 13 boot camp as you'll get.





The next two videos in the series, "Game Types" and "Sharing and Competing", will be released in the near future right here on the PlayStation.Blog, so check back then for more...