[AppleTV] Broadcom Crystal HD Decoder Apple TV step-by-step installation guide

you have a typo there
kext and echo are two different things the first is a kernel extension the other is a command so put a space between kext and echo

I paypal'd you $8 for this guide! I was completly confused on how to do everything, total noob myself... but your guide walked me thru every step and 10 out of 11 of my 1080p videos played flawlessly, i am completly shocked and in awe Ive been waiting for someone to create a noob guide, and yours saved me hours and hours

Now... I would be willing to paypal you money if you went thru all the same effort and created a walk-thru on how to install XBMC-Linux on the AppleTV, as well as enabling NTFS support I'll pay you $20 if you do this, as long as its in detail for noobs

use smartinstaller to add ntfs stuff

http://wiki.atvflash.com/index.php?title..._Installer

Bobby Blixberg Wrote:Put the file in /tmp first with winscp.
Then use putty to move to destination with

sudo mv /tmp/rc.local /etc/rc.local

Ok so I now have this in my rc.local file in the correct location:

/sbin/turbo_atv_enabler.bin
/sbin/kextload -v /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext

However still no joy after reboot. Is there something else I am missing?

Thanks

tegalus Wrote:Ok so I now have this in my rc.local file in the correct location:

/sbin/turbo_atv_enabler.bin
/sbin/kextload -v /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext

However still no joy after reboot. Is there something else I am missing?

Thanks

Same problem here except my rc.local has each line twice.

mng70 Wrote:Same problem here except my rc.local has each line twice.

LOL, doing it twice is futile, if it fails the first time, it will also fail the second.

You need to find out why it's failing. rc.loca runs at elevated so you don't need sudo. Try the commands on the command-line with sudo in front to see why they are failing.

Interesting. It appears to be loading
-bash-2.05b$ sudo /sbin/turbo_atv_enabler.bin
Password:
This software is copyright 2008 Turbo (Mike Byrne) and MAY NOT be distributed.
All rights reserved.
Contact turbo@0xfeedbeef.com for more information

Installing kext enabler... OK!
Installing Turbo's SSE3 emulator... OK!

Done.
-bash-2.05b$ sudo /sbin/kextload -v /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext
kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext appears to be valid
kextload: loading extension /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext
kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext loaded successfully
kextload: loading personalities named:
kextload: FirstPersonality
kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel
kextload: matching started for /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext

It appears that if I perform these actions once loaded I can select CrystalHD. But as soon as I cycle power the ATV it resets.
Any ideas?

mng70 Wrote:Interesting. It appears to be loading
-bash-2.05b$ sudo /sbin/turbo_atv_enabler.bin
Password:
This software is copyright 2008 Turbo (Mike Byrne) and MAY NOT be distributed.
All rights reserved.
Contact turbo@0xfeedbeef.com for more information

Installing kext enabler... OK!
Installing Turbo's SSE3 emulator... OK!

Done.
-bash-2.05b$ sudo /sbin/kextload -v /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext
kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext appears to be valid
kextload: loading extension /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext
kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext loaded successfully
kextload: loading personalities named:
kextload: FirstPersonality
kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel
kextload: matching started for /System/Library/Extensions/BroadcomCrystalHD.kext

It appears that if I perform these actions once loaded I can select CrystalHD. But as soon as I cycle power the ATV it resets.
Any ideas?

Mine is doing exactly the same....

davilla Wrote:LOL, doing it twice is futile, if it fails the first time, it will also fail the second.

You need to find out why it's failing. rc.loca runs at elevated so you don't need sudo. Try the commands on the command-line with sudo in front to see why they are failing.

When I enter them manually everything works fine - this is why I think that it is a permission issue...?

Here's the relevant section from my xbmc.log:

DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(libcrystalhd.dylib)
09:14:19 T:2684407808 M: 33452032 DEBUG: Loading: libcrystalhd.dylib
09:14:19 T:2684407808 M: 33361920 ERROR: CrystalHD: device open failed
09:14:19 T:2684407808 M: 33361920 INFO: CrystalHD: broadcom crystal hd not found

I have the same kind of issue making the ATV load up my Composite kext.

when putting the kext in rc.local it just will not load.

but when on ssh, sudo loading kext manually always works.