EVO Player v0.7.0

Emby password authentication, native HTTPS/TLS streaming, master-detail hierarchical changelog viewer, direct memory buffer streaming, and native PS5 IME keyboard.

Download EVOPlayer-0.7.0-InstallTile.elf to register the Media tile on the home screen, or EVOPlayer-0.7.0-player-only.elf for homebrew app slot launch.

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Emby Password Authentication & Setup

• Account Password Support: Dedicated interactive password configuration row in Emby Setup screen with virtual keyboard input and secure asterisk masking (********).
• Robust cJSON Authentication: Server authentication payloads formatted with cJSON for compliant user session tokens against password-protected Emby and Jellyfin servers.
• Config Persistence: Safe loading and saving of passwords in /data/evoplayer/emby.conf and USB configurations with key-value and legacy positional compatibility.

Hierarchical Changelog Viewer

• Master-Detail Version Architecture: Replaced legacy flat cards with a clean dual-pane layout: a version selector on the left and a dedicated release notes inspector card on the right.
• Categorized Visual Badges: Clear [NEW], [FIXED], [IMPROVED], and [REMOVED] indicator pills with accent color coding.
• Instant Version Switching: Fluid D-pad navigation across all releases with automatic detail panel updates.

Core Subsystems & Network Engine

• Native HTTPS & TLS Support: Integrated OpenSSL (libssl.a/libcrypto.a) with TLS 1.2/1.3 handshakes, SNI extension, and secure communication for remote HTTPS media servers.
• Direct Memory Region Manager: High-throughput streaming buffer allocations leveraging native PS5 direct memory (dmem).
• Native PS5 IME Keyboard Support: Seamless integration with libSceImeDialog.sprx supporting multilingual input and USB keyboards, with automatic fallback to custom virtual keyboard.
• Media Directory Search: Interactive search modal in file browser for fast folder and item filtering.
• Streaming Stability: Fixed custom AVIO lifecycle conflict and stabilized network streaming playback.
• CPU SIMD Vectorized YUV Pipeline: 8-wide AVX2 SIMD workgroups for high-throughput video presentation (7.4ms per 4K frame).

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Install — start here

Download EVOPlayer-0.7.0-InstallTile.elf. That is the one to run.

1. Jailbreak the console (12.70) and start ps5-payload-elfldr.
2. Copy EVOPlayer-0.7.0-InstallTile.elf to a USB stick.
3. Start it from your payload manager — the on-console one, typically at http://<ps5>:8084. Anything that sends an ELF to elfldr works.
4. It says "EVO Player ready in Media". Open EVO Player from the console's Media row.

Which file is which

File	Use it for
EVOPlayer-0.7.0-InstallTile.elf	Normal install. Payload manager → tile in Media
EVOPlayer-0.7.0-UninstallTile.elf	Removes the tile completely
EVOPlayer-0.7.0-homebrew.zip	The websrv route: extract to a USB stick as /homebrew/EVOPlayer/, launch from http://<ps5>:8080
EVOPlayer-0.7.0-player-only.elf	The bare player. Runs via hbldr in PS Now app slot

EVO Player v0.6.0

Direct Emby streaming, on-screen virtual keyboard, and a dedicated Surround Sound Studio for 5.1 and 7.1 speaker calibration.

Download EVOPlayer-0.6.0-InstallTile.elf to register the Media tile on the home screen, or EVOPlayer-0.6.0-player-only.elf for homebrew app slot launch.

New — Emby Media Server Add-on

• Native Emby LAN streaming & browsing. Connect directly to your local Emby server, browse media libraries with dynamic cover art and backdrops, and direct-stream video files without transcode overhead.
• On-screen Virtual Keyboard. Full controller-driven keyboard with character, numeric, and symbol sets for convenient entering of server IP addresses, ports, usernames, and passwords.
• Playstate reporting. Real-time playback progress and resume position synchronization back to Emby server.
• Custom Emby branding. Dedicated section icon and navigation rail entry.

New — Surround Sound Studio

• 360° Top-Down Soundstage Theater. Bespoke visual calibration interface featuring a top-down view of listener sweet spot, concentric acoustic range rings, front display soundbar, and 8 positional speaker modules (FL, FC, FR, LFE, SL, SR, BL, BR).
• PS5 8-Channel Hardware Audio Output (S16_8CH). Verified hardware tone generator with smooth 50ms attack/decay envelope fades to prevent audio clicking.
• Sequential 5.1 & 7.1 Auto-Calibration. Automated channel sweep across each speaker with live frequency and status monitoring.
• 360° Perimeter Rotation Sweep. Continuous circular pan around the room perimeter to verify surround transitions.
• Dynamic 5.1 Speaker Hiding & 2D D-Pad Room Traversal. Seamlessly hides inactive side speakers in 5.1 mode and adjusts D-pad traversal grid to navigate directly between active physical channels.

New & Improved — Settings & Subtitles

• Structured Settings Hierarchy. Organized preferences into dedicated sub-sections: Playback & Video, Subtitles, Interface & Controls, System & Hardware, and Developer Tools.
• Default Subtitle Sizing. Configurable and persistent default subtitle size preference (SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE) with improved base scaling for high-resolution displays.

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Install — start here

Download EVOPlayer-*-InstallTile.elf. That is the one to run.

1. Jailbreak the console (12.70) and start ps5-payload-elfldr.
2. Copy EVOPlayer-*-InstallTile.elf to a USB stick.
3. Start it from your payload manager — the on-console one,
   typically at http://<ps5>:8084. Anything that sends an ELF to
   elfldr works.
4. It says "EVO Player ready in Media". Open EVO Player from the
   console's Media row.

That is the whole install. No websrv, no FTP, nothing to extract,
and no second device beyond whatever runs your payload manager — the
tile installer carries the player inside it.

Keep the payload running. It is resident by design — it is what
starts the player when you open the tile. Your payload manager may
show it as still running; that is correct.

Re-run it after every reboot, along with the jailbreak.

Which file is which

File	Use it for
EVOPlayer-*-InstallTile.elf	Normal install. Payload manager → tile in Media
EVOPlayer-*-UninstallTile.elf	Removes the tile completely
EVOPlayer-*-homebrew.zip	The websrv route: extract to a USB stick as /homebrew/EVOPlayer/, launch from http://<ps5>:8080
EVOPlayer-*-player-only.elf	The bare player. Do not send this to a payload manager — with elfldr alone it runs headless with no display plane and nothing appears. It needs hbldr, which the tile installer and websrv provide

Requirements

• PS5 on firmware 12.70, jailbroken (re-run after every reboot)
• A USB stick for media

Verification

Built reproducibly in CI from the pinned toolchain (clang 18.1.3,
PS5 Payload SDK v0.42, FFmpeg 7.0.1). CI has no console, so these
binaries are not hardware-tested. Checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Derived from ProsperoPlayer; see NOTICE.

EVO Player v0.5.0

If a previous release did nothing when you ran it, this is the fix. The
release shipped the bare player, which needs hbldr to be given a display
plane — sent straight to elfldr by a payload manager it started headless and
never drew anything. Download EVOPlayer-0.5.0-InstallTile.elf instead: it
registers the Media tile and carries the player inside it.

Also: a text reader, and a font that can finally spell a comma.

Fixed — install

• The release now ships the ELF that works from a payload manager.
  EVOPlayer.elf is the bare player and needs hbldr for a display plane;
  elfldr alone runs it headless, so nothing appears. The old release notes
  documented this in a footnote under a step pointing at that very file.
  The tile launcher already carried its own copy of websrv's hbldr and works
  from elfldr alone — it just was never built or shipped. Verified on 12.70 on
  a console where only elfldr was reachable.
• The bare player is renamed -player-only.elf so it cannot be picked by
  mistake, and the release notes now say which file is which.
• The tile launcher announced the wrong version — a hardcoded 0.2.0 that
  had drifted two releases behind the player it embeds. It now takes the
  version from the same file CI checks against the release tag.
• CI verified only one of the three payloads. It now checks all of them,
  and asserts the launcher is larger than the player it embeds — a launcher
  that suddenly shrinks means the .incbin picked up nothing, which would
  ship a tile that opens to a black screen and pass every other check.

New

• A text reader. Opening a .txt, .log, .md, .nfo, .json, .csv,
  .ini/.cfg or a subtitle file from the browser now reads it instead of
  doing nothing — those extensions were listed and selectable and CROSS on
  them was silently ignored, which read as the browser being broken.

  D-pad scrolls a line, the shoulders page (with one line of overlap, so a
  paragraph keeps a landmark), the triggers jump a tenth of the file, and
  TRIANGLE cycles three reading sizes. Changing size re-wraps and keeps the
  top of the view on the same words, because losing your place is the one
  thing a size control must not do. The scrollbar thumb is sized to how much
  of the document is on screen, which is what tells you whether "half way"
  means five more pages or five hundred.

  Text is decoded as UTF-8 and folded to what the font can draw: curly quotes
  become straight ones, em dashes hyphens, ellipses three periods, accented
  Latin letters their base letter. A file that is not valid UTF-8 still opens.
  Reads at most 2 MB and says so rather than appearing to end early; refuses
  binaries instead of showing a screen of dots.

• The UI font has punctuation. It had 69 glyphs — letters, digits and
  /._:-+ — and drew everything else as a 12px gap. Survivable in a filename,
  unreadable in prose, and a text reader is nothing but prose. 26 glyphs
  (, ' " ! ? ( ) ; [ ] { } < > = * # | \
~ ^ ` % & @ $) are now generated by tools/gen_icons.py at
  all four sizes.

  The original atlas is a pre-generated asset with no generator in the tree, so
  these live in a second atlas that the text routines fall back to. They sit on
  the letters' baseline because tools/measure_font.py reads the real baseline,
  cap height and stroke weight out of the atlas ink rather than guessing, and
  their advances are measured from the rasterised glyph rather than declared —
  the first pass declared them and $4.50 (approx came out with the bracket
  touching the zero.

Changed

• Glyph lookup is shared between the player and tools/uiview.c. Both
  carried their own rr_idx scan and their own four-way face switch; with two
  atlases to choose between that would have been two more places to drift.
  Both now call evo_font.h.
• The browser labels a file "DOCUMENT" if the reader will open it. The two
  lists had drifted the moment the reader learned new extensions, so a .json
  was labelled "FILE" right up until you pressed CROSS on it and it opened.

Documentation

• The README is about the player again. It had grown into a twenty-section
  setup manual — Windows prerequisites, Docker, LLVM version rationale, FFmpeg
  profiles, a validation checklist — with the player itself covered in the
  first forty lines. Someone who wants to use EVO Player needed none of it.
  707 lines to 175: what it is, how to install it, what it does, the controls.
  Nothing was deleted; the developer guide moved intact to
  docs/building.md.
• docs/architecture.md is new — the layers inside
  the player, why main.c is carved in the order it is (with the measurement
  that argues against the obvious first cut), the draw vtable, the two font
  atlases, and what can be verified without a console.
• Eight screenshots, all real uiview renders rather than mock-ups.
• EVO_TEXT_CHARSET is generated, not hand-maintained. It listed 69
  characters and would have gone on reporting a comma as unsupported long
  after the comma was added; tools/gen_icons.py now emits the punctuation
  alphabet into a header small enough for the UI layer to include.
• The font warnings in docs/ui-handoff.md said prose
  could not be written and a prompt "cannot ask a question mark's worth of
  question". Both were true and are not any more.

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Install — start here

Download EVOPlayer-*-InstallTile.elf. That is the one to run.

1. Jailbreak the console (12.70) and start ps5-payload-elfldr.
2. Copy EVOPlayer-*-InstallTile.elf to a USB stick.
3. Start it from your payload manager — the on-console one,
   typically at http://<ps5>:8084. Anything that sends an ELF to
   elfldr works.
4. It says "EVO Player ready in Media". Open EVO Player from the
   console's Media row.

That is the whole install. No websrv, no FTP, nothing to extract,
and no second device beyond whatever runs your payload manager — the
tile installer carries the player inside it.

Keep the payload running. It is resident by design — it is what
starts the player when you open the tile. Your payload manager may
show it as still running; that is correct.

Re-run it after every reboot, along with the jailbreak.

Which file is which

File	Use it for
EVOPlayer-*-InstallTile.elf	Normal install. Payload manager → tile in Media
EVOPlayer-*-UninstallTile.elf	Removes the tile completely
EVOPlayer-*-homebrew.zip	The websrv route: extract to a USB stick as /homebrew/EVOPlayer/, launch from http://<ps5>:8080
EVOPlayer-*-player-only.elf	The bare player. Do not send this to a payload manager — with elfldr alone it runs headless with no display plane and nothing appears. It needs hbldr, which the tile installer and websrv provide

Requirements

• PS5 on firmware 12.70, jailbroken (re-run after every reboot)
• A USB stick for media

Verification

Built reproducibly in CI from the pinned toolchain (clang 18.1.3,
PS5 Payload SDK v0.42, FFmpeg 7.0.1). CI has no console, so these
binaries are not hardware-tested. Checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Derived from ProsperoPlayer; see NOTICE.

EVO Player v0.4.0

Playback does less work per frame, and the code that does it lives in fewer
places.

The measurable part: the 4K converter stopped computing pixel addresses in
floating point, the tiling path that runs on every 1080p frame stopped
creating twelve threads to do it, and the player stopped blacking two million
pixels it was about to overwrite. The structural part: 87.7 MB of assets
nothing included are gone, icons draw from a generated table instead of three
hand-written switches, and the first module has left main.c.

Interface work too — CIRCLE asks before it stops playback, and cover art is
large enough to read as cover art.

Performance

Every change here is verified on the host by ./tools/bench.sh, which hashes
the output plane and refuses to print timings if the pixels moved. Host
timings are not the console's; they compare changes against each other.

• The 4K swizzle stopped doing a double divide per pixel. The fused
  converter called pp_tiled_pixel_offset four times per 2×2 block, and each
  call evaluated a double divide and multiply purely to compute an address —
  8.3M of them per frame at 2160p. It now walks whole tile spans, so the tile
  base is computed once per 512 pixels. tile_copy.c had already made this
  move for the linear path and carries the proof that the integer form is
  identical. 4K single-thread 38.2 ms → 20.9 ms; at 4 workers 12.4 → 10.4;
  1080p at 4 workers 3.0 → 2.1. Plane hashes unchanged.
• The tiling path that actually runs stopped spawning 12 threads a frame.
  pp_converter_parallel.c names per-frame pthread_create/join as the
  Soft-UHD freeze root cause, and both converters were rewritten around
  persistent pools because of it. pp_draw_pixels_as_tiles was missed — and it
  is not dormant: pp_videoout_present calls it for every 1080p frame, so at
  60fps it asked the scheduler for 720 thread creations a second on the render
  thread. (The dormant one is the similarly named PS5_DrawPixelsAsTiles in
  main.c; they are different functions.) Now on a pool: 2.00 ms → 1.68 ms
  on the host, and the console is where the stalls were actually observed.
• The player no longer blacks 2M pixels it is about to overwrite.
  draw_player_screen cleared the whole frame and then had every pixel of it
  replaced by the video on the next line. The clear could not simply be
  deleted — it is load-bearing when no frame is ready, and the render thread
  cannot ask "is one ready?" first, because the seek thread can retire the
  display between the question and the answer. So the guarantee moved down:
  pp_playback_copy_display now leaves every pixel of its target defined,
  decided under the lock that owns the display. Worth 0.28 ms of a 2.49 ms
  render thread — real, and smaller than it was billed as.
• The full-frame display copy is one memcpy rather than 1080 row-sized
  ones, which is what it had always been in the case that runs every frame.
• Glyph lookup is a table, not a linear scan of the 69-character
  RR_CHARS run once per character drawn — and the miss case, which is most
  punctuation in a filename, paid all 69 comparisons. There were two hand-
  copied implementations of that scan; there is now one function.

Changed

• The thumbnail worker is its own translation unit. main.c was ~18k
  lines in one file, and the received wisdom was to pull decode/demux out
  first. Measuring the file says otherwise: half its 263 file-scope globals
  are referenced across spans of more than 5,000 lines, and the most smeared
  of them are the playback ones — g_pp_pb is touched across 17,899 lines,
  player_paused across 17,311. Cutting there first would publish sixty
  globals through a header and turn a tangle into a tangle with an API.

  The scrub-preview thumbnail worker measured as the real seam: 1,096 lines,
  39 symbols, and a total dependency on the rest of the program of two helpers
  and two screen constants. It owns its thread, mutex, condition variable and
  request queue, so the boundary already existed — it just wasn't a file. It
  is now media/src/prospero_thumbnail.c behind a six-function header.
  main.c is 16,815 lines and 199 file-scope statics, from 17,985 and 229.

  Nothing about the code changed: the move is checked mechanically against the
  original region, and differs only by the four substitutions its header
  documents.

• Source-over pixel blending is in one header. main.c carried two copies
  of it, the second commented "duplicated rather than shared … because that one
  is defined ~3000 lines further down" — a workaround for declaration order
  inside a single translation unit, which is exactly the problem a header does
  not have. Both are now evo_blend_pixel() in ui/include/evo_blend.h, with
  identical arithmetic to what they both already did.

• Icon drawing goes through a generated table. tools/gen_icons.py now
  emits EVO_ICON_TABLE / EVO_CTRL_TABLE, and both the player and
  tools/uiview.c index them. There were three hand-written switch (idx)
  copies naming the same macros — and one had already drifted: rr_icon() in
  main.c stopped at case 12, so it drew nothing for HOME or LOGO. It is
  reachable through EVO_DRAW_VTABLE, so that was a defect waiting for its
  first caller rather than a live one. Adding an icon is now one edit to the
  generator; it can no longer land in the mock and be forgotten in the player.

• 87.7 MB of unreferenced assets are gone — approved_raw_assets.h,
  approved_ui_assets.h, pp_ui_assets.h, pp2_ui_assets.h,
  pp_font_metrics.h and three .bmps. Nothing included any of them; the
  asset directory went from 117 MB to 30 MB. pp_font_metrics.h going with
  them settles the "two font systems exist" warning in the handoff doc — there
  was one, plus a header nothing read.

New

• CIRCLE during playback asks before it stops. It was the one
  irreversible thing CIRCLE did anywhere in the app — tearing down the
  decoder, the audio port and your position in the file — on a single press
  of the button that means "back" everywhere else. It now opens a prompt over
  the paused frame: CIRCLE (the button that opened it) keeps watching, CROSS
  stops. The action order is deliberate: the destructive answer is not the one
  you reach by repeating what you just did.
• Cover art is large enough to be cover art. The cache moved from 80×80 to
  320×180 and the recent shelf draws it full bleed instead of as an inset
  thumbnail, so tiles are posters. 320×180 is 16:9 — the shape the source
  frames actually are — and it minifies into the tile's 270×162 drawing
  area rather than magnifying, which is what the old 3.4× upscale could never
  do. The cache is 16 slots rather than 48: only the eight recent tiles ever
  ask for one, and the trade is 3.7 MB against 1.2 MB.
• The application mark is the EVO logo. The top-left of the rail and of
  the launch header drew two concentric circles standing in for a logo. Both
  now draw EVO_ICON_LOGO — the ring-and-play mark from the home-screen icon,
  generated by tools/gen_icons.py as one monochrome glyph so it tints with
  the theme like every other icon.
• Sound and lightbar survive a relaunch. Appended to the settings file
  after the theme name, and written when the Tools rows are toggled.

Fixed

• Tools' DEBUG OVERLAY toggle did not save, though Settings' DEVELOPER
  MODE row — which flips the same variable — always had. Which page you used
  decided whether it stuck.
• Full-bleed tile artwork is cropped, not stretched. Scaling a 16:9 cover
  into a 5:3 tile is a ~7% horizontal squash: invisible on a gradient,
  obvious on a face. evo_widget_tile now takes the centred source rectangle
  that fills the tile, the same way the hero backdrop already did.
• LEFT no longer opens the navigation rail over the subtitle picker.
  Neither it nor the new stop prompt was listed in evo_screen_is_modal(), so
  the rail could open as a third layer over a panel floating over video.
• The 4K-surface dance around a modal overlay is written once. Media Info
  and the stop prompt both have to leave a 4K plane and hold the presentation
  clock; that was ~25 lines transcribed by hand, and a second copy is exactly
  how a 4K session comes back from an overlay stuck in 1080. Both go through
  pp_product_overlay_enter() / _leave() now.

Tooling

• tools/uiplay.sh covers the new prompt (M cycles to it), and the fixture
  artwork is 320×180 with a ring drawn in it — a gradient could not show
  whether a cover had been squashed, and 128×72 magnified into everything it
  was drawn on. The hero gets its own 960×540 fixture, matching
  EVO_HERO_ART_W/_H, so the mock stops rendering stair-stepping the console
  never produces.

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Install

1. Jailbreak the console (12.70) and start ps5-payload-elfldr.
2. Deploy ps5-payload-websrv.
3. Extract the homebrew zip to a USB stick as /homebrew/EVOPlayer/,
   or copy it to /data/homebrew/EVOPlayer/ over FTP.
4. Launch it from http://<ps5>:8080/index.html.

EVOPlayer-*.elf is the bare payload. Note that sending it with
elfldr alone runs it headless — it needs the homebrew launcher to
get a display plane. See the README.

Requirements

• PS5 on firmware 12.70, jailbroken (re-run after every reboot)
• A USB stick for media

Verification

Built reproducibly in CI from the pinned toolchain (clang 18.1.3,
PS5 Payload SDK v0.42, FFmpeg 7.0.1). CI has no console, so these
binaries are not hardware-tested. Checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Derived from ProsperoPlayer; see NOTICE.

EVO Player v0.3.0

The player starts from the console now, and tells you what changed.

New

• A home-screen tile. EVO Player registers a Media-category title and
  appears in the console's own Media row, so it starts from the controller.
  Until now launching meant opening a browser on a second device to reach the
  websrv launcher. The tile is title EVOP10001 on loopback port 9056,
  deliberately distinct from ProsperoPlayer's PRSP10001/9055 so both can be
  installed on the same console; nothing here touches upstream's registration.
  Build and install with ./scripts/build-media-tile.sh --install.
• The uninstaller ships with it, and is built first. Sony usually hides
  Options → Delete for Media hosts, so removal is --uninstall, or the
  one-shot EVOPlayer_UninstallTile.elf when the launcher is not resident.
  It is built before the launcher, unconditionally, so the way back exists
  before it is needed.
• A changelog in the app, under About. Release notes per version with the
  emphasis inverted the way the other informational rows work — the change is
  what you came to read, so NEW / FIXED steps back.
• A real application icon, generated by tools/gen_app_icon.py from vector
  shapes using the same signed-distance rasteriser as the UI icons. The
  repository previously had no EVO icon at all, so packaging fell back to a
  1×1 placeholder and the Media launcher carried upstream's branded artwork.
• ./scripts/update-console.sh — rebuilds and updates both install paths
  in one command.

Fixed

• The Media launcher's Makefile could never have worked. It depended on
  assets/ProsperoPlayer.elf while the source embeds assets/EVOPlayer.elf,
  so make failed on a missing prerequisite. A missing player now explains
  itself instead of surfacing as an assembler error about a file it cannot
  open.
• The tile and the development install no longer fight over one directory.
  The launcher embeds the player and rewrites it on every launch; with both
  pointing at /data/homebrew/EVOPlayer the tile silently overwrote whatever
  install-homebrew.sh had just pushed, with nothing to say which binary had
  actually started. The tile's copy lives at /data/evoplayer/app, and
  uninstalling the tile no longer deletes the development install.
• uiview reported version 0.0.2 for every render, because the version was
  hardcoded in tools/uiview.sh rather than read from VERSION. Its About
  fixture had also drifted from the real screen.
• Installing the tile never returned. prospero-deploy is
  socat -t 9999999, which waits for the far end to close, and elfldr does not
  close while the payload it spawned is alive. The launcher is resident by
  design — that is what serves the tile's deeplink — so the deploy ran until it
  was killed, long after the payload was up. Console deploys are bounded now
  (--timeout, default 90s), and timeout's exit 124 is reported as what it
  actually means: still resident, detached.

Known gaps

• The launcher is a payload, so it must be re-injected after every jailbreak;
  the tile stays registered but does nothing without it. Autoload is the
  answer, and is the exploit host's job rather than this repository's.
• The tile embeds the player whole, so the launcher payload is player-sized
  (~34 MB) and updating the tile means re-injecting all of it.
• PP_VERSION in the launcher is a separate constant from VERSION.

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Install

1. Jailbreak the console (12.70) and start ps5-payload-elfldr.
2. Deploy ps5-payload-websrv.
3. Extract the homebrew zip to a USB stick as /homebrew/EVOPlayer/,
   or copy it to /data/homebrew/EVOPlayer/ over FTP.
4. Launch it from http://<ps5>:8080/index.html.

EVOPlayer-*.elf is the bare payload. Note that sending it with
elfldr alone runs it headless — it needs the homebrew launcher to
get a display plane. See the README.

Requirements

• PS5 on firmware 12.70, jailbroken (re-run after every reboot)
• A USB stick for media

Verification

Built reproducibly in CI from the pinned toolchain (clang 18.1.3,
PS5 Payload SDK v0.42, FFmpeg 7.0.1). CI has no console, so these
binaries are not hardware-tested. Checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Derived from ProsperoPlayer; see NOTICE.

EVO Player v0.2.0

Subtitles, and the interface for choosing them.

New

• Subtitle track picker. DOWN during playback lists every track in the
  file with the number of cues it declares, the active one marked, and the
  film still playing behind it. It replaces cycling, which reopened the file
  on every step - on a disc rip with thirty-four tracks that meant thirty-odd
  reopens to reach the one you wanted.
• Track names are built from the language code, not the container's title.
  The font atlas has no accents or parentheses, so a track really titled
  Español (España) would draw as a row of holes; fifty language codes map
  to ASCII names, and same-language tracks are numbered rather than shown as
  duplicate rows.

Fixed

• Subtitles appeared to be broken and were not. A release group ships a
  vanity track tagged English, flagged default, holding two cues whose first
  lands thirty-seven minutes in. Selection picked it on metadata alone and
  then correctly displayed nothing for a whole episode. mkvmerge records
  NUMBER_OF_FRAMES per track, so the cue count is readable before a packet
  is demuxed, and it now outranks every other signal: a track with fewer than
  ten cues loses even when it is English and flagged default. Tracks that
  lose this way are still offered in the picker, dimmed and marked
  SIGNS ONLY, because the count can itself be wrong.
• The marquee scrolled at whatever speed the render loop happened to be
  running. It advanced a fixed number of pixels per frame, and the loop
  runs anywhere from 36fps with a preview decoding to 60fps on a settled
  list, so one filename scrolled at two visibly different rates. It measures
  milliseconds now and travels 180px/s regardless.
• The marquee also stepped a glyph at a time, because the offset was
  computed in pixels and then applied by dropping whole characters. The
  sub-character remainder is applied as a negative x, with the glyph
  overhanging each end clipped by keeping and restoring the strips either
  side. Checked on the host: no ink outside the box across 376 phases,
  largest step 3px against a 17px advance.
• EXTRA_CFLAGS never reached the compiler when building from Windows.
  The re-exec into the dev container forwarded PS5_HOST and PS5_PORT and
  dropped everything else, so a -D switch produced a successful build, a
  clean install, and a binary without it. Forwarded now, and the build greps
  its own compile line and fails if a requested flag did not land.

Known gaps

• Cue counts come from mkvmerge's statistics tags. Containers written by
  other tools do not carry them; those tracks are ranked on metadata as
  before and show no count in the picker.
• Switching tracks reopens the file and seeks back, so it costs the same
  pause as a seek. Cues are collected as packets stream past, so a track
  selected mid-film has no cues from earlier in it.

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Install

1. Jailbreak the console (12.70) and start ps5-payload-elfldr.
2. Deploy ps5-payload-websrv.
3. Extract the homebrew zip to a USB stick as /homebrew/EVOPlayer/,
   or copy it to /data/homebrew/EVOPlayer/ over FTP.
4. Launch it from http://<ps5>:8080/index.html.

EVOPlayer-*.elf is the bare payload. Note that sending it with
elfldr alone runs it headless — it needs the homebrew launcher to
get a display plane. See the README.

Requirements

• PS5 on firmware 12.70, jailbroken (re-run after every reboot)
• A USB stick for media

Verification

Built reproducibly in CI from the pinned toolchain (clang 18.1.3,
PS5 Payload SDK v0.42, FFmpeg 7.0.1). CI has no console, so these
binaries are not hardware-tested. Checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Derived from ProsperoPlayer; see NOTICE.

EVO Player v0.1.0

A rebuild of the interface, and the tooling to work on it without a console.

New

• Launch screen. A hero that resumes what you were last watching, a
  Jump back in shelf, and a Library shelf. Two-dimensional cursor: each
  shelf remembers its own column, and empty shelves are skipped rather than
  becoming dead stops.
• File browser inspector. Selecting a file shows a frame from it plus
  type, container, size, length, resolution and codecs, read from the
  container itself. Probing is debounced, so scrolling never stalls.
• Side navigation rail. Sections are reachable from each other instead of
  each being a dead end you had to back out of. Back is a stack now, so a
  screen opened from two places returns to the right one.
• Hold to scroll. Every list moved one item per physical press before.
  Shoulder buttons page; L2/R2 jump to the next initial in the browser.
• Themed toast, and a danger theme token for failure states. Existing
  .theme files inherit it.
• Playback OSD follows the theme — panel, seek bar, scrubber, chapter
  marks, captions and the music visualiser.
• Theme swatches on the settings row, so cycling themes is not blind.
• L3 captures a screenshot during playback (R3 keeps subtitle delay).

Fixed

• The eighth settings row was visible but unreachable — navigation wrapped at
  a hardcoded count that had drifted from the real one. That whole class of
  bug is gone; counts now live with the cursor.
• Audio failures were all blamed on E-AC3, including files with no audio
  track at all. The message was hardcoded and overwrote the accurate one.
  E-AC3, AC-3, DTS, TrueHD, FLAC, Opus and ALAC are all present and linked.
• Pixelated previews — thumbnails were point-sampled twice, once down and
  once up. Minification now box-filters and the preview is presented 1:1.
• The 4K converter created and joined worker threads every frame, the
  pattern already documented here as causing a freeze. It uses a persistent
  pool: 4K conversion measured 11.57 ms → 9.15 ms per frame on the host.
• Commas and parentheses rendered as gaps: the font atlas has neither, and an
  unknown glyph leaves a hole rather than being skipped.
• Scrims painted as hard black slabs — evo_ui_vgrad replaces rather than
  blends, so a transparent colour was written straight into the framebuffer.
• The expanded rail was not quite opaque, letting the page title ghost
  through it.

Removed

• Haptics. Built, tested on hardware, and taken out: every vibration
  entry point in libScePad either reports success and does nothing or
  rejects the call, while scePadSetLightBar succeeds on the same handle.
  Sound and lightbar remain. Evidence is in docs/ui-handoff.md so nobody
  re-derives it.

Tooling

• tools/uiplay.sh — the UI as a navigable page in a browser, on any
  machine. Real renderer, real font atlas, real icons.
• tools/uiview.sh — render any screen to a PNG.
• tools/shot.sh — fetch captures and interrogate them numerically: probe a
  coordinate, scan pixel runs, crop, diff.
• tools/klog.sh — console log, timestamped, append-only, survives payload
  restarts.
• tools/launch.sh — refuses to stack app instances, which is what
  kernel-panicked a console during development.
• tools/bench.sh — host benchmark for the converter, with correctness
  hashing and ASan/TSan modes.

Known gaps

• The player OSD is themed but still draws its own layout rather than the
  shared chrome.
• gpu-notes.md previously recommended an SDL2/mesa path for GPU YUV
  conversion. That does not work: the sysroot ships OSMesa (llvmpipe), a
  software rasteriser, with no radeonsi. The document now records the
  measurements.

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Install

1. Jailbreak the console (12.70) and start ps5-payload-elfldr.
2. Deploy ps5-payload-websrv.
3. Extract the homebrew zip to a USB stick as /homebrew/EVOPlayer/,
   or copy it to /data/homebrew/EVOPlayer/ over FTP.
4. Launch it from http://<ps5>:8080/index.html.

EVOPlayer-*.elf is the bare payload. Note that sending it with
elfldr alone runs it headless — it needs the homebrew launcher to
get a display plane. See the README.

Requirements

• PS5 on firmware 12.70, jailbroken (re-run after every reboot)
• A USB stick for media

Verification

Built reproducibly in CI from the pinned toolchain (clang 18.1.3,
PS5 Payload SDK v0.42, FFmpeg 7.0.1). CI has no console, so these
binaries are not hardware-tested. Checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Derived from ProsperoPlayer; see NOTICE.

EVO Player v0.0.2

Install

1. Jailbreak the console (12.70) and start ps5-payload-elfldr.
2. Deploy ps5-payload-websrv.
3. Extract the homebrew zip to a USB stick as /homebrew/EVOPlayer/,
   or copy it to /data/homebrew/EVOPlayer/ over FTP.
4. Launch it from http://<ps5>:8080/index.html.

EVOPlayer-*.elf is the bare payload. Note that sending it with
elfldr alone runs it headless — it needs the homebrew launcher to
get a display plane. See the README.

Requirements

• PS5 on firmware 12.70, jailbroken (re-run after every reboot)
• A USB stick for media

Verification

Built reproducibly in CI from the pinned toolchain (clang 18.1.3,
PS5 Payload SDK v0.42, FFmpeg 7.0.1). CI has no console, so these
binaries are not hardware-tested. Checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Derived from ProsperoPlayer; see NOTICE.

EVO Player v0.0.1

Install

1. Jailbreak the console (12.70) and start ps5-payload-elfldr.
2. Deploy ps5-payload-websrv.
3. Extract the homebrew zip to a USB stick as /homebrew/EVOPlayer/,
   or copy it to /data/homebrew/EVOPlayer/ over FTP.
4. Launch it from http://<ps5>:8080/index.html.

EVOPlayer-*.elf is the bare payload. Note that sending it with
elfldr alone runs it headless — it needs the homebrew launcher to
get a display plane. See the README.

Requirements

• PS5 on firmware 12.70, jailbroken (re-run after every reboot)
• A USB stick for media

Verification

Built reproducibly in CI from the pinned toolchain (clang 18.1.3,
PS5 Payload SDK v0.42, FFmpeg 7.0.1). CI has no console, so these
binaries are not hardware-tested. Checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Derived from ProsperoPlayer; see NOTICE.