new AFPClient for iOS/OSX <--SOLUTION FOR LION USERS

Memphiz Wrote:I said nothing of that. And I don't want something like this as a rumour in the forum.

Beside that - as you might have heared - source code is in hard freeze at the moment. Only bugfixes are allowed to get in. So there definitly won't be any new features added before Edens release.

Ok then, thanks for clarifying. I hope some decent solution goes out in terms of streaming from Mac.

Sorry guys I cannot seem to get afp sharing from my Mac Pro to my ATV2. I have tried to follow the steps here but it won't import my library. It must be something to do with pathway I'm entering. I have afp sharing activated on my Mac Pro with the folders I want to share. For an example can someone please tell me how to share this folder through afp "/Users/bobkane/Movies/TV Shows". Thanks in advance.

New user here... was looking for an alternative to Boxee which seems to be dead for ATV and the new version of XBMC is great... runs real quick on my ATV (1st gen). I too had the problem with AFP not working. I don't know exactly what I did, but it eventually started working. I changed my setting on the Guest User on my Mac Mini (Lion) to allow guest connections. The AFP shares would show up in XBMC under ZeroConfig. It took me awhile to find ZeroConfig because it's under Videos when you add a source, and not through Settings.

Even though the sources showed up, it would just be "working" over and over and nothing would result. Then clicking on the AFP share again would do nothing, just a sound but no "working" message. I would restart XBMC and reboot the ATV etc. click different shares then cancel and try the AFP again and it eventually worked.

I added 2 folders from my AFP share... one for Movies and another for TV shows. The TV shows started indexing right away but the movies would not, saying it wasn't connected to the network. I tried again the next day, even changing the movies index to use IMDB instead. Still the same error. Then I went to the Movies folder, held the menu button and chose "Scan For New Content" and it indexed with no error.

So it seems to not be without bugs, and I haven't gotten fully into testing playback yet, but I'm very happy that the XBMC team has added AFP support, allowing us Lion users back into the media centre world. With the loss of Boxee I was going to stick to my ATV1 but now I know when I get an ATV2 I will have a fantastic alternative.

Thanks again! Hope my little ramblings might help some others who are having difficulties.

I too managed to get AFP working with Apple TV 1 and Lion but the playback is not reliable as I pointed out here in this thread.

I'm going to look at UPnP to see if I have better luck

kealan Wrote:Sorry guys I cannot seem to get afp sharing from my Mac Pro to my ATV2. I have tried to follow the steps here but it won't import my library. It must be something to do with pathway I'm entering. I have afp sharing activated on my Mac Pro with the folders I want to share. For an example can someone please tell me how to share this folder through afp "/Users/bobkane/Movies/TV Shows". Thanks in advance.

I'm hoping someone comes along with an idiots guide on how to set a share with Lion 10.7.2 and XBMC.

I can supply the idiot (i.e....me)

Thanks in advance!

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To add to the above....I have updated XBMC on my aTV and now have the eden beta. I managed to get a share as far as my public folder. I will work out how to get to my external movie drive later on.

That just seems too damn confusing for tonight

Thanks to all!

Looking forward to that one. I have atv2 with Eden. I have tried multiple ways. External drive gets recognized but then after set up, nothing opens/lists etc. Used smb and tried zeroconfig for AFP. AFP not able to be selected.

kealan Wrote:Sorry guys I cannot seem to get afp sharing from my Mac Pro to my ATV2. I have tried to follow the steps here but it won't import my library. It must be something to do with pathway I'm entering. I have afp sharing activated on my Mac Pro with the folders I want to share. For an example can someone please tell me how to share this folder through afp "/Users/bobkane/Movies/TV Shows". Thanks in advance.

When connecting to shares you would usually enter something like the below

afp://<computername>/<sharename>

In your case this would depend on what folde ryou've shared but almost certainly wouldn't include the /Users/bobkane part

Hiya all,
I understand getting XBMC to connect to the AFP is a bit tricky in the first place and i can just spend some time till it works, but when i did get it to work, my external HDD which is partioned into two sections " BACK UP" and "MEDIA", only showed the BACK UP section, is there a reason why the MEDIA partition won't show up ?

Both are FAT32
Back up section is 200GB
Media is 800gb ? Any ideas?
would really appreciate some help, can't see it being a problem at XBMCs end ?

Rory

EDIT : Also, I'm not sure wether it has any relevance but Media was set to a sharing folder in sharing preferences but backup was not and yet back up appeared and media did not ?

please ? anyone ?