XBMC
Contents
Installation Instructions for XBM
A short and sweet install guide for XVMC Beta 1 "Atlantis"for AppleTV Take2
Note: There is another guide which uses ATV USB Creator and a Patchstick: http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_for_Mac_on_Apple_TV
Requirements
- AppleTV Firmware 2.1
- ssh
- NitoTV
- Read/write enabled for OSBoot (Mount_ReadWrite).
Actual Instructions
SSH into the AppleTV
installer -pkg XBMC.mpkg -target /
Ignore the message about installation failing, a perl post-install script has failed to run because perl is missing
This installs ;
/Applications/XBMC.app
make a sym link from /Applications to ~/Applications so NitoTV app launcher can see it
ln -s /Applications/XBMC.app /Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app
Launch it under NitoTV
setting-> appearance-> resolution and pick the one with (FullScreen)
References/External Links
Etc
Attempts to get it running as-is on safe updated 1.1 ATV have come up short. Of course, this is to be expected,
Here's the error in CrashReporter.log:
Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib Referenced from: /mnt/Scratch/Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Mac OS/XBMC Reason: Incompatible library version: XBMC requires version 7.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 5.0.0