PS3 webMAN v1.46n - New XMB Game Mounting Improvements (using wm_proxy/xai_plugin) by deank

Following the recent updates from legendary developer deank that improved NTFS support a great deal in the webMAN plugin, and the recent Cobra Update (stage2.bin) that allows you to play Games & Media from burnt optical disc. The developer has been busy with yet another trick up his sleeves, as we showed yesterday deank has been working on a new test feature for webMAN , now the test feature has been introduced officially in webMAN v1.46n. this new feature utilizes the source code release for the custom xai_plugin (by mysis) and mounting games is much faster and cleaner from the XMB as the web-browser trick is no longer needed as deank adapts the custom xai_plugin in a great way. Checkout all the details and a video demo of the new game loading in the details/changelog provided by deank..

Release Quote Video Demo

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  webMAN 1.46n Changes
  1) Mounting games is now faster
  2) After game/video is mounted the focus will move to the respective XMB column
  3) Reduced memory consumption
  4) Includes NTFS and NETSRV support
  
  
  Thanks to @mysis for sharing details on how to create custom xai_plugin.​
  
  Dean
  
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Download: webMAN_1.46.zip

Source: psx-place.com​

 

sLaunch 0.9: http://deanbg.com/slaunch_preview.zip

It is now usable (still only in 1080p/1080i). It supports up to 1000 games in 100 pages.
LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN to navigate, L1/R1=prev/next page, X=load title, O=exit to XMB.

It is stable and shouldn't crash like the previous version.

Dean

awesome job .I have detected a problem in the latest build, when I click on a game is mounted the previous game in the list
Taking the example of your image when I click on GOW is mounted to Cry 4

Then I would have a problem to report common to Webamn (also Mod) and Multiman.
I have the ISO in an external NTFS HD 3tb and when I try to mount one of these iso with Webamn is not mounted, instead Multiman tells me that these are not ISO PS3, but if I mount with GSM or IRISMAN are mounted and are heading without problems
what do you think about this issue?

 

sLaunch 0.9:

It is now usable (still only in 1080p/1080i). It supports up to 1000 games in 100 pages.
LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN to navigate, L1/R1=prev/next page, X=load title, O=exit to XMB.

It is stable and shouldn't crash like the previous version.

Dean

Thank you Dean for the new update

It seems that in 'load title' the index variable needs a +1.
When I press X on a game, it loads the previous item (the game at the left of the current game).

 

I'm out, but when I come back home I'll fix it. Hopefully everything else works.

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I'm out, but when I come back home I'll fix it. Hopefully everything else works.

Sent from my Lenovo P1a42 using Tapatalk

Take your time, this issue can wait...

The menu navigation is working very well with more than 10 games.

I have got a 'black screen' a few times entering or exiting from slaunch.
It happens at random times and not very often.

It would be nice if you could implement a 'key-repeat' for a faster navigation like in VSH Menu.
Currently it is necessary to hold & release the d-pad buttons each time.

 

The link is updated with the fix to load the selected title. And it has key-repeat.

 

http://deanbg.com/sLaunch_0.9.zip (source+sprx).

I wrote it in just 2 days, so there are not a lot of comments (not that they are needed). It is based on the vsh_menu, so you're all familiar with it. Most of the functions are changed, it works with the frame-buffer and there is jpeg decoder.

Next few days I'll try to make it work in 720p/576p/480p but I don't promise anything.

Dean

 

http://deanbg.com/sLaunch_0.9.zip (source+sprx).

I wrote it in just 2 days, so there are not a lot of comments (not that they are needed). It is based on the vsh_menu, so you're all familiar with it. Most of the functions are changed, it works with the frame-buffer and there is jpeg decoder.

Next few days I'll try to make it work in 720p/576p/480p but I don't promise anything.

Dean

Thanks for the great work on the ps3 scene

 

There's no way I can mount iso to psp in webman 1.46n and can't ride with sLaunch

 

The PSP ISO crash is fixed - just redownload webftp_server.sprx (webMAN).

 

http://deanbg.com/sLaunch_0.9.zip (source+sprx).

I wrote it in just 2 days, so there are not a lot of comments (not that they are needed). It is based on the vsh_menu, so you're all familiar with it. Most of the functions are changed, it works with the frame-buffer and there is jpeg decoder.

Next few days I'll try to make it work in 720p/576p/480p but I don't promise anything.

Dean

Awesome code... Simple, efficient and beautiful.
It is incredible what you achieved in just 2 days.

 

I'm reworking some parts of sLaunch to make it more stable and fix the memory management/allocation + the interaction with webMAN. Hopefully it will be stable by tomorrow. Also I'm still trying to make it work in 480/576.

 

I'm reworking some parts of sLaunch to make it more stable and fix the memory management/allocation + the interaction with webMAN. Hopefully it will be stable by tomorrow. Also I'm still trying to make it work in 480/576.

Just in case you're interested, I have added a few extra features:

• Added display of CPU/RSX temperature
• Press Triangle for list games by content type
• Press SELECT to access /setup.ps3 (compatible with webMAN MOD)
• Press L3 for refresh XML
• Press R3 for display system info (same as SELECT+START in XMB)
• Reduced heap memory in 2MB

SRC: https://github.com/aldostools/webMAN-MOD/tree/master/_Projects_/slaunch

Note: Some of the currently mapped buttons could change in future updates.

 

The idea of sLaunch is to be small and simple "launcher". I don't like adding all the stuff from webMAN in it. May be when I'm ready with it I'll add it to webMAN so there will be no need for two separate plugins.

 

The idea of sLaunch is to be small and simple "launcher". I don't like adding all the stuff from webMAN in it. May be when I'm ready with it I'll add it to webMAN so there will be no need for two separate plugins.

I agree that slaunch must be small & simple... the features that I've added are only for increased usability and they reuse a lot of your code and only increase the sprx a few bytes (less than 1KB).

* For instance, the group by content type helps to filter the list when there are hundreds of games.

* The temperature is a basic info important for the users.

* The reduction of 2MB in heap memory is because IMO the plugin was allocating too much memory.

* The added button mappings are just simple calls to webMAN MOD.

 

sLaunch 0.1 and.0.9 were preview versions and just a proof of concept - I released the source just for information. It is not ready for "upgrades" and "add-ons". The memory-heap was larger for a reason - while testing to make sure it won't crash by broken images and other things. The content-grouping will be done by a flag in the /slaunch.bin to indicate the type of entry - so nothing is final yet. Currently the heap management is not suitable for images of different resolutions and it causes problems. I already fixed that and I'm working on few other things. If I'm ready later I'll give more information.

 

The link is updated with support for 480p/576p/720p displays. Because of the biliniar downscaling the text at the bottom of the screen doesn't look very nice in 480/576 but that's the best for now.

The memory usage is now down to 10MB and is completely rewritten.

http://deanbg.com/slaunch_preview.zip

For best results always wait for webMAN to show a popup message that it is ready/loaded and then use the sLaunch.

Source is also updated ( http://deanbg.com/sLaunch_0.9.zip )

webMAN is also updated to fix boot-crash when wM is set to "no-delays" (before XMB is fully loaded and it is trying to load the last title).

Make sure that you use the LATEST webMAN+sLaunch and there should be no freezes or other issues (at least I didn't get). Tested with NTFS+NETSRV+sLaunch (fully loaded).

p.s. Updated webMAN again... all should be ok now.

 

webMAN is updated to 1.47n:

* Removed "memory" settings from the "Setup" page
* It should support more than 1000 games now
* Memory for "refresh xml" is allocated from app memory container and not from VSH heap
* Same is done for html requests when memory available
* Fixed some bugs, causing webMAN to lock the system
* idle_plugin used for proxy

http://deanbg.com/webftp_server.sprx
http://deanbg.com/webMAN_1.47.zip
http://deanbg.com/slaunch_preview.zip

sLaunch is also updated.

p.s. About 400 new game covers are added to multiMAN's server.

 

Hey sorry to interrupt the party again, but please check your PMs deank

 

Hey deank thanks for keeping webman up to date i'm testing with slaunch_0.9 and its working ok but the only thing i' ve have noticed is that if you try to mount any game with it from the user category on xmb before you log in on the system the game is mounted but xmb gets frozen

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Hey deank thanks for keeping webman up to date i'm testing with slaunch_0.9 and its working ok but the only thing i' ve have noticed is that if you try to mount any game with it from the user category on xmb before you log in on the system the game is mounted but xmb gets frozen

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I forgot to mention that i'm using both webman 1.47 and slaunch_0.9 latest updates

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