This too requires a jailbreak, and the XBMC app can be found via Cydia. Oh and while we’re on the topic of XBMC, perhaps less useful but still interesting is that it was also just released for iPhone and iPad.
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It’s simple, just download the software, grab an HDMI adapter and AUX cable, and your Mac is now a media center. If you don’t have an Apple TV you can still setup a media center on any Mac by using Plex or XBMC.
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It’s possible that the stuttering may be resolved with future software updates that better optimize hardware acceleration:
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720p video runs beautifully as expected, but some uncompressed 1080p videos have occasional stuttering and choppiness as you can see in the video below from Engadget. I haven’t had the chance to try this out myself yet, but apparently XBMC runs quite well. When XBMC has completed installing, your AppleTV’s built-in media manager FrontRow will restart itself and you will see XBMC in the list of options, just select it to launch XBMC.
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Now you’ll want to install the XBMC software, execute each of these commands independently:Įcho "deb. When prompted for your password, enter ‘alpine’ if you haven’t changed it. Here are the instructions from the XBMC team: Installing XBMC is just a matter of using SSH to connect to the newly jailbroken ATV2 to download and install the software. Now that your Apple TV2 is jailbroken, you can install the XBMC software onto it. Follow the instructions to tethered boot your newly jailbroken AppleTV.
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This basically just means you have to assist the bootloader by connecting it to your computer and using Seas0nPass again, but this time selecting ‘Boot Tethered’ from the menu
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The first thing you’ll need to do is to jailbreak your Apple TV, this is made remarkably easy with Seas0nPass, which is arguably one of the easiest jailbreak apps out there for any iOS hardware. However, there is a downside to having an Apple TV 2 as you will not be able to install the latest version of Kodi (or the latest Kodi add-ons for that matter). We’ll now walk through the process of both jailbreaking the AppleTV2 and installing XBMC: If you have an Apple TV 2 instead of 4 then you’re in luck as the process to install Kodi on Apple TV 2 is way simpler.