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.

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/

See Also

• boxee
• NitoTV
• XBMC Launcher