Post: Showtime PS3 Homebrew Home Theater System is Released!
03-17-2011, 12:27 AM #1
moiz41510
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-LINKS UPDATED-

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Today andoma announced on IRC that he has released Showtime - a PS3 Homebrew Home Theater System application!

Download: "their server is being served"
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To quote from his page linked above:
Originally posted by another user
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.


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PS3 usage guide

Getting started

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For a full featureset of Showtime see [s]You must login or register to view this content.[/s]
Features:
Playback of video and audio
Javascript plugins
Unified search
View photos and images in slideshow mode
Live TV streaming from Tvh


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Most of this should work except for playback of high res. HD videos (basically when the PPU runs out of cycles). There are a bunch of strategies for how this should be handled but I've not had time to start digging into this yet

Video output

Showtime on PS3 has been tested with 576i, 720p and 1080i video resolutions.

I've tried to set reasonable defaults for overscan compensation. But if it not correct for you it can be adjusted under Settings -> Display and UI settings

Buttons on controller

✕ Activate (Enter) currently focused item
○ Navigate back
△ Bring up options / playcontrol menu
□ Screensaver (Until something better has been figured out)
► Play/Pause
▬ Home menu
✜ Navigate

L3 - Bring up playback info (During video playback)
R3 - Bring up log console

Keyboard

Plugging in a standard keyboard in the PS3 USB port works and is currently the only way to input characters.
No virtual keyboard is supported at the moment.

Other stuff that does not work

TV-style remote controller (whatever that's called) has not been tested. No idea if it works or not.
BD/DVD/CD Discs - No idea how that works
Digital pass thru audio (AC3, DTS, etc)

Bugs?

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Build it yourself!?

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03-17-2011, 02:38 AM #20
SirBlazeAlot
I ROCK like a fossil
Can anyone confirm this works? The links are ALL down lol this SHOULD be closed anyways.
03-17-2011, 02:47 AM #21
ilikeitindabutt
Who fukmi who the fukru
links don't work
03-17-2011, 03:22 AM #22
moiz41510
Vault dweller
Originally posted by SirBlazeAlot View Post
Can anyone confirm this works? The links are ALL down lol this SHOULD be closed anyways.


Originally posted by ilikeitindabutt View Post
links don't work


The links are down from the source. Once they are updated so will the links in this thread.
03-17-2011, 03:30 AM #23
No1s Perfect
Confidence starts in your mind
Originally posted by Cain View Post
Get on topic now, or this thread will probably get closed.


Shut up, You're not an Admin or Mod, This isn't youre forum.
03-17-2011, 03:52 AM #24
Alright ladies behave.
03-17-2011, 06:58 AM #25
moiz41510
Vault dweller
Originally posted by Realalist View Post
Alright ladies behave.


Outie . . . . . . . . . . . . .

---------- Post added at 11:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:38 PM ----------

Links have been updated!
03-17-2011, 09:00 AM #26
TheDeathbat
Do a barrel roll!
does it play .mkv files?
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03-17-2011, 09:15 AM #27
i will try it when I come home from work

im like :FU: when my ps3 is like [troll] "corrupted data" [\troll]
03-17-2011, 12:38 PM #28
SirBlazeAlot
I ROCK like a fossil

The links are ALL working now: I've just installed and played around with this, and i MUST SAY:: "NICE WORK DEVS"!

This is an EXCELLENT homebrew media server app! You can tell A BUNCH of work was put into this project, its still in BETA stages but i can tell you right now this is going to be an app that i will keep up with as far as future updates/addons/and plugins for this !

7/10 overall

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