Liens du jour – 22 Mai 2011

v2.99.401

A few embarrassing bugs slipped into the last release.

•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)

v2.99.393

•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!

This is an update to inform users that PSN Download Manager 3.71 is released, and to clarify it is still functional on PS3 Firmware 3.61 released this week.

Download: PSN Download Manager v3.71 – We’re working on many other projects as well which you may find useful, so keep checking every few days

Preparing the Application:

Setting Up Your Console:

1. Start Your PlayStation Console
2. Under Network Settings, Choose Custom.
3. When it asks for Proxy, set it to Use.
4. Enter your IP Address given by running Internal IP.bat
5. Enter the port as 27
6. Save the changes, start PSN DM.exe

Using the Application:

1. Start a download from the PSN
2. When it says "Please Wait" Press Circle

You’ll notice it is now displayed in the Download Manager, once finished, proceed with the following to Transfer onto the PlayStation…

3. Go back and Download the Content / File again, it should transfer from the PC…