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Connect XBMC iPad/iPod/iPhone to our XBMC Media Center Server
We’ve converted our old 1st Generation Apple TV to be and OpenELEC-powered XBMC media center, configured our AppleTV to share our Library through UPnP and installed XBMC on our iPad, iPod and iPhone. Now we are going to add the shared library to the XBMC app on each iOS device.Fire up the XBMC app on our iOS device [...]
Install XBMC On iPad/iPhone/iPod
We’ve converted our old 1st Generation Apple TV to be and OpenELEC-powered XBMC media center and configured the device to share our Library through UPnP. Now we are going to install XBMC on a few devices to access our library. We are going to put XBMC on an iPod, iPhone and iPad. The process is [...]
Share XBMC Library via UPnP – AppleTV 1G with OpenELEC
We’ve converted our AppleTV 1g into a very capable Media Center Device to centrally manage and store our entire media library. Now we are going to configure a few things to make the device share our XBMC library with all of our other devices in the house.Forst thing we want to do is go into the [...]
Enable Component Video Output on 1st Gen AppleTV OpenELEC XBMC
Our default installation of OpenELEC/XBMC on the 1g AppleTV enables only HDMI video output. To enable output through the component video ports we are going to browse to the ConfigFiles SMB share on the OpenELEC/AppleTV device and create a new plain-text file called xorg.conf and then edit the file. Here is the text as it [...]
1st Gen Apple TV as OpenELEC XBMC Hub with Broadcom BCM970015 Crystal HD Decoder
Today we’re going to setup a media-center hub with OpenELEC/XBMC and a ~$30 Broadcom BCM970015 Crystal HD Decoder card on an old first-generation AppleTV. With a 1 GHz Pentium M CPU, only 256 MB of RAM and an onboard NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 graphics processor and software video decoding, the first-generation Apple TV isn’t much of a media [...]