2011-10-08, 01:21
Hi all,
I honestly think I have spent 30 hours trying to access my computer files on my appletv2. I've been through forums, tutorials, every settings on XBMC and my computer, and I cannot get a result stable enough to watch a movie on my TV. I'm really desperate at the moment, about to smash my apple tv to pieces and go raise alpacas in the Andes. http://qkme.me/355quy
My computer is a macbook pro with Snow Leopard (10.6.8), I have XBMC 10.8 on it.
My appletv has Darwin 11
I cannot upload any debug log, as for some reason I cannot SSH into my appletv...
I do everything over wifi. The router is one floor below me and there is no way I'm going to get a cable either to my computer or to the appletv.
The only firewall I have is little snitch, which blocks nothing except for a few adobe requests (don't ask...). Installed it recently though, and all my misfortunes already happened before that.
I've tried to stream via UPnP using XBMC, which sort of works, except for two things, first scraping does not work, neither for tv shows nor for movies. I therefore have to watch my stuff in file view.
Also, it will never work for more than 45 minutes, at which point it freezes and I have to go to my computer, quit XBMC, switch off and on my airport and launch XBMC again. At first I thought it may be due to my computer somehow going to sleep during the streaming, but I've turned off every setting I could find in the Energy Saver window of the system preferences to no avail.
I've tried to use UPnP with PS3 media Server.
Here again scraping does not work, and to cap it the movie buffers every 3 seconds even for SD files.
Finally I've tried to use SMB sharing. From what I've seen it should be set up correctly. One odd thing is that every time I switch on and off my airport, I need to go back to the network settings to select "workgroup" as the workgroup under the WINS advanced settings. Otherwise it is just a blank field and won't work.
Even after doing this it only works occasionally and for short period of times, and it buffers like hell. Scraping works, however.
Please someone help me.
If there is any other info I can give you, please ask.
I honestly think I have spent 30 hours trying to access my computer files on my appletv2. I've been through forums, tutorials, every settings on XBMC and my computer, and I cannot get a result stable enough to watch a movie on my TV. I'm really desperate at the moment, about to smash my apple tv to pieces and go raise alpacas in the Andes. http://qkme.me/355quy
My computer is a macbook pro with Snow Leopard (10.6.8), I have XBMC 10.8 on it.
My appletv has Darwin 11
I cannot upload any debug log, as for some reason I cannot SSH into my appletv...
I do everything over wifi. The router is one floor below me and there is no way I'm going to get a cable either to my computer or to the appletv.
The only firewall I have is little snitch, which blocks nothing except for a few adobe requests (don't ask...). Installed it recently though, and all my misfortunes already happened before that.
I've tried to stream via UPnP using XBMC, which sort of works, except for two things, first scraping does not work, neither for tv shows nor for movies. I therefore have to watch my stuff in file view.
Also, it will never work for more than 45 minutes, at which point it freezes and I have to go to my computer, quit XBMC, switch off and on my airport and launch XBMC again. At first I thought it may be due to my computer somehow going to sleep during the streaming, but I've turned off every setting I could find in the Energy Saver window of the system preferences to no avail.
I've tried to use UPnP with PS3 media Server.
Here again scraping does not work, and to cap it the movie buffers every 3 seconds even for SD files.
Finally I've tried to use SMB sharing. From what I've seen it should be set up correctly. One odd thing is that every time I switch on and off my airport, I need to go back to the network settings to select "workgroup" as the workgroup under the WINS advanced settings. Otherwise it is just a blank field and won't work.
Even after doing this it only works occasionally and for short period of times, and it buffers like hell. Scraping works, however.
Please someone help me.
If there is any other info I can give you, please ask.