Showtime

A few embarrassing bugs slipped into the last release.
Here comes 2.99-401. Downloads available at the usual place

• Fix alignment issues with subtitles.
  Make sure each rendered text line is aligned same way as the text bounding box
  Fixes ticket #497
• Don't crash if text rendering fails
• freetype: If we are unable to get a face with style modifiers, try to get one without
  It's ok since we can do italic and bold ourselfs. Before this Showtime crashed
• httpclient: Fix regression with non-chunked transfered data
  Problem when reading last bytes of file (truncated reads)
  Affected playback of .mov/.mp4 files

Files available at github

• New PS3 icon in XMB (credits to gizmo)
• Improved subtitle rendering (Can now do some styles, etc from SSA/ASS)
• subtitles: Add support for Windows 1250 character encoding
• Handle UTF-8 BOM in SRT files
• Fix various bugs in PS3 Cell accelerated video decoder
• Improve SRT scanner (Don't search on UPNP shares, only search parent folder and subs/ folder)
• Faster navigation to new page when clicking on an item
• Fixes for Twonky UPNP/DLNA server
• Fix playback of some AVI files (Timestamp problems)
• Plug a bunch of memory leaks
• Handle <b> and <i> tags in SRT subs, skip other tags
• Add settings for subtitles
  - Screen positioning (left, center, right)
  - Size adjustment (no longer scale from UI settings)
  - Possible to have Showtime always select a subtitle if one is found
• Faster start of video playback from upnp (use mimetype to infer container format instead of probing)
• Improve buffer management, see 7ecd2e76
• Improve performance of browsing RAR archives
• Make opensubtitles.org work again
• Support SRT files from minidlna server

Have fun!

I've decided to move Showtime to depend on what-will-be libav 0.7. For those of you that build for Linux distributions this will most likely break the build. But have no fear! There are instructions for how to build libav so it works fine with Showtime in Showtime's README file

Mostly bugfixes in this release, here are the highlights:

• ps3: Fix video bitrate calculation when using SPU decoder
• Fix bitmapped subtitle formats (VOBSUB) on bigendian (such as PS3) systems. Ticket #433
• Fix scanning of SRT subtitles Ticket #408.
• webdavclient: Strip 'http://host' in webdav responses before parsing. Ticket #426
• linux: Prefer openssl over libssl
• ps3: Use system fonts (Latin, Japanese, Korean, Chinese) so lots of more characters should work now
• subtitles: Autodetect encoding of SRT files
• ps3: Fix seeking bugs when playing with cell acceleration
• ps3: Force cell decoder into level 4.2 even if content is 5.x
• Add support for all ISO 8859 character encodings and make it configurable in Language -> Settings which default character encoding to use for SRT files.

Download are available here

I've hooked up Showtime to the video decoder libraries already present on the PS3. This will accelerate h264 (Up to level 4.2) and MPEG2 video decoding so it can play up to 1080p content.

New versions of Showtime are available for download here: pkg self

If you want to make sure that the Cell acceleration is actually used you can press L3 during video playback to see the status window.
Make sure that the video codec mentions (Cell) at the end of the row. Just like in this screenshot

You're welcome!

After about a month of hacking I'm happy to announce that Showtime now can be run as a native "homebrew" application on the PS3. See PS3 usage guide for more information of how to get started.

If you have any questions please use the PS3 forum on this site

Today I finally got around to updating Showtime's webpage.

The screenshots and features were so much out of date that I was reluctant to even give the URL to people asking about Showtime.

Anyway, now when the site have moved from a lousy web hosting site to a decent VPS I have much better tools for keeping the site a bit more up to date and also the news feed is much easier to edit since it's based on the news feature in redmine.

I also have some really cool stuff up my sleeve that I hope to be able to release in one or two weeks. Talk to you then!