Posted by iunlock under Jailbreak on Friday Aug 5, 2011
FireCore has recently introduced aTV Flash in black which is in Beta6 for the jailbroken 2G TV of Apple. aTV is a package that can bring to you the chance to surf the Net, listen to music at Last.fm and any more. This Beta6 version brings a wide range of brand new features that come with numerous fixes and a series of improvements. They are most proud of its playback performance and a brand new media player that is so lightweight written for the iOS.
FireCore said that the media player will permit the Apple TV 2G jailbroken series to be able to read and play numerous media formats with the native look of the Apple TV interface. It has a wide range of changes included such as showhid option for menu, manually install if AppleTV is not detected, disable auto update, improved installation process, and other UI adjustments. The changes made to the new media player also has a long list of new features to be proud of.
The Beta 5 which added support to the 4.2.2 was released last May by Apple. This is currently made available on a pre-order basis for a very discounted price of $19.99. It will also permit you to access already the beta version. If you have already bought before aTV Flash for your old school Apple TV, then you can just get this black one as a free upgrade.
So what do you think of this new version? Do you see it more interesting than the previous ones?
Posted by unlocker under Jailbreak on Tuesday Feb 8, 2011
The developers of the new XMBC Media Centre released the jailbreak application for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and 2nd generation Apple TV. The XMBC Media Centre is the former XBOX Media Centre, which is the open source media centre program. The application is not a thin client streamer or a remote, it is a XMBC client that includes support for playing a variety of codecs, with hardware support for both 720p and 1080p HD video.
With the aid of the new application, you can easily drag and drop different media from your computer or even share it with your home network. Thus, “no longer is your AppleTV2 chained to iTunes.”
However, there are still some minor issues on that need to be straightened out. For example, The touch controls are not designed for 2nd generation of Apple TV for it was for the previous generation of the device and was ported to iOS devices. Moreover, developers are working on the playback of 1080p content that was a little choppy. The developers are confident that this will be fixed soon.
The jailbreak application of XMBC is available at the Cydia App Store for free which you can easily download and install in your Apple devices. Just follow these easy steps.
- Launch Cydia on your jailbroken iOS device:
- Tap on the Manage Tab and then tap on Sources.
- Tap on the Edit button and then tap add to add the following repo URL to add sources: http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/ios/
- After it is successfully installed, tap on the Search tab and search for XBMC.
- Tap on XBMC-iOS to install it on your iPhone.
After you have done these instructions, you will see the icon of XMBC on the home screen.
