Showtime v3.5.72, Now Playing

The lonely coder Andreas Oman has some updated Showtime goods for those who like to stay on the bleeding edge. Everytime I take a look at the updates being pushed into this homebrew, the desire to have a hacked PS3 grows. Anyways...

Showtime is probably the must have app for media playing and streaming that resides on the PS3 as opposed to your computer. It's like the XBMC for Sony consoles that keeps on growing. Take a look at the lengthy 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

Upgrade Showtime to use libav 0.8.1

This adds better support for multithreaded decoders and a lot
of stability fixes.

For more details please see http://www.libav.org/releases/libav-0.8.release

3.5.55-g0d4a597

Upgrade Spotify integration to use libspotify 11

3.5.48-g43037d7

Add user setting for configuring the VDPAU deinterlacer (Linux only)

Pretty lengthy right? You can grab the most recent stable version of Showtime (3.4) or the cutting edge versions that are pushed out by the automatic build system from the official site.

Source: Lonely Coder

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