XBMC
XBMC Media Center is a free cross-platform media player software and entertainment system application framework for Linux, Mac (Leopard, Tiger, and Apple TV), Windows, as well as the Xbox. XBMC is capable of playing back all popular video, audio, and picture formats out-of-the-box.
Contents
Automatic Installation
ATV USB Creator Technique
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_for_Mac_on_Apple_TV
XBMC Launcher Technique
See XBMC Launcher page, it lets you install both Boxee and XBMC.
Manual Installation
A short and sweet install guide for XBMC Media Center 8.10 "Atlantis" for Apple TV Take2
Requirements
- Apple TV OS 2.1 or later
- ssh
- NitoTV
- Read/write enabled for OSBoot (Mount_ReadWrite).
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)
Notes
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
References/External Links
- http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_for_Mac_on_Apple_TV
- http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/
- http://xbmc.org
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC
- http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_Online_Manual
- http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Frequently_Asked_Questions
- http://xbmc.org/forum/