Download and Install XBMC app on Jailbroken Apple TV 2G

Here is good news for XBMC lover, The XBMC team has successfully ported XBMC to Apple TV 2, iPhone & iPad with its first ARM based release. If you have jailbroken your device you can easily install XBMC on iPhone 4 or iPad via Cydia Store.

XBMC (XBox Media Center) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows and the original Xbox. This app will allow you to drag and drop media content from your computer, or share it on your home-network.

Its UI easily lets you manage video, photos, podcasts and music from your computer, optical disc, local network and the internet. Here are some details of XBMC app.

Features:

• Full XBMC install, this is not a remote or thin client streamer.
• No longer is your AppleTV2 chained to iTunes.
• Who wants transcoded video anyway?
• Share files on your network your way.
• Full hardware decode for 720p/1080p movies.
• Everything else you know and love about XBMC.

follow the instructions to Install XBMC Media Center on your jailbroken second generation Apple TV. Make sure you have a Jailbroken Apple TV 2G running iOS 4.1 or 4.2.1.

How to install XBMC App on Jailbroken Apple TV 2G

• load terminal and type
• ssh root@your_ATV2_IP_ address
• root@’s password: ”enter your password here, it should be “alpine” if you havent changed it”
• echo “deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list
• apt-get update
• apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2

After XBMC is succesfully installed, Apple TV home screen will restart and you will see XBMC in it.

Jailbroken Apple TV 2G (ATV2) running XBMC App [VIDEO]

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