Showtime is a media player for use on HTPC media centers. It is primarily intended to be controlled via keypad input such as a IR or bluetooth remote control, keyboards, etc but works also very well with a pointer device.
A quick overview of its features:
-Playback of video and audio
-Javascript plugins
-Unified search
-View photos and images in slideshow mode
-Live TV streaming from Tvheadend
-Spotify integration (
www.spotify.com/int/new-user/)
-Available on Linux, OS/X and PS3
Javascript plugins
New backends can be implemented in a whim thanks to Showtime's Javascript based plugin framework.
The current list of plugins are probably only interesting if you live in Sweden. But hopefully it will grow in the future
-Headweb video rental service
-SVT Play
-TV4 anytime
-Viasat Play
Easy access to all your media
Showtime can browse and play files from these type of sources:
-Local file system
-UPnP servers, such as MediaTomb
-Webdav and HTTP servers
Showtime also offers transparent decompression and browsing of ZIP and RAR archives.
Audio playback
Playback of audio tracks works pretty much as expected. Starting to play from a view will continue to play following the track until the end.
Showtime supports all audio formats supported by FFmpeg which includes mainstream formats such as MP3, AAC (m4a), OGG, FLAC, WAV, WMA.
In addition it supports SID tunes via sidplay2 and video game music files via libgme.
Also, playing directly from a good old CD works just fine.
Video playback
-Showtime supports all video formats supported by FFmpeg
-DVD playback from DVD drive or direct from ISO files
-VDPAU accelerated video decoding
-OpenGL accelerated deinterlacing
Unified search
Search has never been easier – Just type the keywords in the search bar and Showtime will search all media sources that have been configured. Results will be grouped by source so you can easially separate them from each other.
The search input field also accepts any type of URL that Showtime understands.
Spotify integration
Showtime integrates to the Spotify music service via libspotify. The integration currently offers:
-Browsing of current logged in users playlists
-Search for tracks, albums and artists
-Inbox support
-What's new
-Starred tracks
Soothing backgrounds
While playing music and if Showtime enter screen saver mode it will animate a constant flow of images related to the currently playing artist. The images are downloaded using
www.Last.fm web API.
Skinnable UI
Showtime's primary userinterface, as seen in the screenshot at the top of this page, is modelled in Showtime's own view declaration language.
At the moment none of the view declaration language is documented but should interest arise from the community to help with skinning and modelling of UI I will try to document and describe how it works.
CODICE
Comandi da Controller:
Citazione:
✕ 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
