[APPLE TV] XBMC for Mac (Atlantis Beta 1) on the Apple TV

davilla Wrote:There are now two ways to run XBMC on the AppleTV.

1) XBMC for Linux using XBMC Live or some other Linux distro
2) XBMC for Mac using the AppleTV OS.

Depending on your needs you can choose 1) or 2)

Does any of these two options allow the use of networked drives?

Thanks for your help!!!

falafeLover Wrote:nice work! This version seems to get farther for me than the last - I was able to start the application using Nito as described, but the remote doesn't work for me. Is there anything special that needs to be done to enable remote support? Also, where is the log file kept?

I have the same problem, remote doesn't work, when XBMC is started.

vilder Wrote:I have the same problem, remote doesn't work, when XBMC is started.

I have managed to resolve the probmel with the remote with moving SDL.framework and ForceFeedback.framework.

vilder Wrote:I have managed to resolve the probmel with the remote with moving SDL.framework and ForceFeedback.framework.

Would you mind to elaborate?

steve1977 Wrote:Does any of these two options allow the use of networked drives?

Thanks for your help!!!

AFAIK both.
For 2) pick your flavor:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Mount_a_R..._via_SMBFS
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Mount_a_R...ve_via_NFS
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Mount_a_R...ve_via_AFP

For 1)
as network is working, just pick any Howto.

Did not know about XBMC's lack of XvMC.

Is XvMC being planned to be incorporated into XBMC linux?

falafeLover Wrote:nice work! This version seems to get farther for me than the last - I was able to start the application using Nito as described, but the remote doesn't work for me. Is there anything special that needs to be done to enable remote support? Also, where is the log file kept?

Log file is at /Users/Frontrow/Library/Logs/xbmc.log

There's another log I'd like to see (pastebin please) at

/mnt/Scratch/Library/Logs/Console/501/console.log

steve1977 Wrote:Does any of these two options allow the use of networked drives?

Thanks for your help!!!

If your network drives are SMB, XBMC for Mac has internal ability to access SMB drives, no hacking the AppleTV required.

AFP still requires AppleTV hacks but there is an dev effort to side step this, not completed yet.


XBMC for Linux has network drive access for SMB and AFP, it's Linux

vilder Wrote:I have managed to resolve the probmel with the remote with moving SDL.framework and ForceFeedback.framework.

Bingo, and that's a bug. This was missed in the push to get beta1 out. Sorry about that.

XBMCHelper is headed to /dev/null pretty soon. A dedicated XBMC plugin launcher will take over sending IR commands to XBMC instead of XBMCHelper.

MaestroDD Wrote:Would you mind to elaborate?

Give me a few hours and I'll have a package that can install the missing SDL.framework and ForceFeedback.framework. The issue is XBMCHelper is linked with these two frameworks and they are not present under the AppleTV OS.

ForceFeedback.framework is present on all OSX system and is located

/System/Library/Frameworks/ForceFeedback.framework

SDL.framework is not typically present on OSX systems but there is a copy in the XBMC for Mac mpkg developer tools install.