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

Tell a lie...the buttons listed in the sticky do not appear to work on my apple tv....

Holding Play doesn't bring up movie info.

Holding Menu doesn't bring up the contextual menu

Any ideas?

Thanks,
C

Chris,

I agree with you I am unable to get the hold button function working as well.
The play/pause button should really by default be mapped to the pause/play function instead of linking to the button to change the aspect ratio of a movie. The mediastream skin seems to work pretty well on the appletv except for the fact it does seem to be kinda jumpy and switching through the menues or selecting a movie. For being beta it does work very well though. I am sure over time all these bugs will be squashed and performance on the apple tv will be optimized.

Do you have the option of changing to the PAL resolution modes at all, or is it fixed at 720x480 or whatever?

Cheers,
Jonathan

Couple of notes.

1) NitoTV uses a default "safe video setting" when launching apps. Turn this off in NitoTV

2) If you see the "XBMC Media Center" title bar, you are not in FullScreen mode. Setting -> Appearance -> Resolution -> Screen

3) Until the IR mapping is sorted out, it is not possible to bring up the context menu. That is unless you have an EventClient that sends a remote host keyboard commands to the AppleTV. There is such a beast but it depends on SDL.framework which not installed by default.

4) If XBMC for Mac crashes on the AppleTV, you will see the white Apple icon and it seems that AppleTV is frozen. menu twice should get you back.

5) MythTV crashes, possible problem with the pgn files that myth will generate.

6) The root partition on the AppleTV is read only by default, "sudo mount -uw /" will make it read/write. "touch /.readwrite" will make it permanent.

Hi, another aTV user here. Got the Apple Remote to work after copying ForceFeedback.framework as previously stated in this thread, but when XBMC takes control of the remote there is nothing giving control back to Front Row should a crash happen, noticed this a little bit back. Giving XBMC it's own launcher is probably the best idea to solve that at this stage.

I have also noticed that the interface is quite sluggish, both on my MacBook Pro (T9300 @ 2500Mhz, 2Gb RAM, 512Mb 8600m GT GPU) and AppleTV. But I'm sure this will be solved along the line

Otherwise great work! XBMC will definitely replace Front Row and ATVFiles/NitoTV for me, the networking options are much better (note that I had previously never used XBMC ) and the skinnable interface is so much more... alive .

Rekoil Wrote:Hi, another aTV user here. Got the Apple Remote to work after copying ForceFeedback.framework as previously stated in this thread, but when XBMC takes control of the remote there is nothing giving control back to Front Row should a crash happen, noticed this a little bit back. Giving XBMC it's own launcher is probably the best idea to solve that at this stage.

I have also noticed that the interface is quite sluggish, both on my MacBook Pro (T9300 @ 2500Mhz, 2Gb RAM, 512Mb 8600m GT GPU) and AppleTV. But I'm sure this will be solved along the line

Otherwise great work! XBMC will definitely replace Front Row and ATVFiles/NitoTV for me, the networking options are much better (note that I had previously never used XBMC ) and the skinnable interface is so much more... alive .

Hi Rekoil,

Thanks for the feedback. A dedicated launcher is in progress that will also address the issue of XBMCHelper being a piggy with IR input. No time frame as yet but keep watching this forum for announcements.

Thanks Davilla about the info for the context menu.

Is there a way I can install XBMC on my PC or another OS where I can access/modify my library so that it is set how I want it in aTV? I want to use it but when its importing my movie collection with the odd movie incorrectly named my wife won't get to grips with being bothered to use it and that there is the acid test for me

thanks,
C

chrisjburgess Wrote:Is there a way I can install XBMC on my PC or another OS where I can access/modify my library so that it is set how I want it in aTV? I want to use it but when its importing my movie collection with the odd movie incorrectly named my wife won't get to grips with being bothered to use it and that there is the acid test for me

I can do better than that. Here is an URL to xbmc_remote. It's an XBMC EventClient that runs an a host OSX platform and sends keyboard commands to the remote XBMC (on AppleTV). It's a static build so SDL does not need to be installed. Source code is also at this location but you need the XBMC source from svn to build it.

Quote:http://atv-xbmc-launcher.googlecode.com/...bmc_remote

1) make sure settings->network->remote events->enable remote computers to control is turned on

2) command-line format is "xbmc_remote <IP number> 9777

I followed a combination of the first post and the one for mounting the dmg file.

All appeared to work, and through putty I can see the XBMC.app file in the \Applications folder, and I created the symbolic link.
However I cannot find XBMC anywhere in nitoTV (0.5.6 take two).

Should it appear in "Applications" under nitoTV, as when I press play on that it just 'bings' at me.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

yzeyze Wrote:I followed a combination of the first post and the one for mounting the dmg file.

All appeared to work, and through putty I can see the XBMC.app file in the \Applications folder, and I created the symbolic link.
However I cannot find XBMC anywhere in nitoTV (0.5.6 take two).

Should it appear in "Applications" under nitoTV, as when I press play on that it just 'bings' at me.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

NitoTV looks in ~/Applications for Applications. If NitoTV can't see XBMC, then your sym link is wrong


ls -l ~/Applications

should show a sym link from ~/Applications/XBMC.app to /Applications/XBMC.app