Andreas Oman never stops updating his Showtime builds, so here are the latest changes you've missed since our last update!

Aside from playing all those nifty backups, media center functionality also plays a huge role in the custom firmware universe. Thanks entirely to Showtime, modders have the ability to play just about any clip they want without having to worry about file restrictions. As this is a testing build, most of the revisions found here are on the smaller scale. PS3 got its usual round of crash fixes, memory reallocation, and improved playback quality. Even your dumps for errors contain more data than they did in the past. Check out the extensive changelog below!

4.5.283

• Fix various bugs related to font loading and improve glyph caching
• text: Fix problem with right aligned text spanning multiple lines
• Fix broken JPEG file detection
• Remove the index.html parser that will parse HTML as directory scan: It was buggy and the use case is somewhat limited / doubtful
• subtitles: Add support for absolute positioning and fontsize changes in ass/ssa
• glw: Fix recent regression causing empty label/text not to be cleared correctly
• glw: Trig UI refresh when scrollbar moves ...
• Rework image loader / decoding pipeline to be more flexible: Prepares for HW accelerated image manipulation
• Add some more keymappings:
  
  • Shift-F7: Seek backwards
  • Shift-F8: Play/Pause
  • Shift-F9: Seek forwards
  • Add some ugly hacks for decoding RGBA lossy jpegs
• Add missing file: metadata.h
• xmp: Trig end-of-track after first loop
• metadata: Remove locking during I/O: This should make the metadata UI stuff feel a lot more snappy.
• metadata: Don't use metadata_source_t for temp storage during queries
• backend/image: Fix broken locking around image loader
• metadata: Split metadata.c into multiple files
• httpclient: Correctly deal with HEAD req. returning 404
• Set page in loading state during video demuxer init
• videodecoder: Make sure to clear "too slow decoder" if we switch decoder
• Fix audio settings page a bit
• Various fixes to some race conditions in image loader
• glw: Reinitialize frame queues when switching video engine
• glw/video: Improve AVDIFF trace message
• ps3: Parse extradata in annexb mode if it's formated that way
• ps3: Show notification to user if h264 level parameters is violated: In particular number of reference frames
• Fix focus bug on upgrade page
• Convert decoded video frames to YUV420 if video render driver can't display it
• Fix regression in opengl video renderer
• Add audio speaker tests (found in settings->audio)
• Set good defaults for cache and persistent path when running in STOS

4.5.217

• New libav10 revision
• Fix broken frame rate setup for some cases
• ps3: Since we have virtual RAM mapped now, increase sqlite soft heap limit to 10MB
• Make kvstore a bit bigger
• Don't decode more than 2 frames when trying to figure out FPS
• subtitles: Fix double free() for ttml subs
• hls: Fix recently introduced memory leak (libav10 upgrade)
• Simplify the built-in h264 parser a bit.
• ps3: Improve crash dump with stack trace
• ps3: Improve exception handler
• Fix implicit channel-number to channel-layout mappings
• ps3: Use 256 MB of virtual memory for Showtime's heap
• ps3: Fix typo resulting in incorrect 'Unable to set RCVTIMO' warnings
• pulseaudio: Don't crash if we fail to establish a connection to PA server
• Close thumbnail generator if no request has arrived for 5 seconds.
• dvd: Fix broken DVD navigation
• audio: Reinitialize resample when codec changes
• subtitles/tmp: Interpret slash at start-of-line as italic
• Add support for storing per-file settings in file system
• Set timeouts on UPnP notification requests
• Log slow callouts
• Turn on caching for subtitle load requests
• Fix bug for DVDSUB/VOBSUB SPU implicit end time calculation
• skin: Make list scrollbar focusable
• js: Fix possible crash if tag is corrupt
• playinfo: Fix deadlock
• fs: Add support for xattr set/get (Only implemented for SMB right now)
• icecast: Wait for EOF before we kill audio stream
• Make fap_stat_code_t more generic (convert into fap_err_code_t)
• Decode {} tags in SRT files
• libav: Recognize mime-type application/ogg
• lastfm: Don't try to query for artists without mbid
• icecast: Add XSPF support
• Understand video/nsv mimetype
• Add support for TMPlayer subtitle format