28Jan/120

Problems handling special characters in Air Video

I had problems with handling nordic character (æ-ø-å) correct in my Air Video server, but I find a simple fix for it.

Under Air Video Server Click on Options / preferences, go to Subtitles. Change "Default Encoding" to Western (ISO Latin 1; ISO 8859-1).

15Jun/112

Access a Apple Tv via FTP

If you will install XBMC, Boxee or do something else on your Apple Tv, you need a way to access your ATV. This article will show you how easy you can access a Apple Tv through a ftp client.

1. Download Cyberduck. It's a Open source FTP client. http://cyberduck.ch/
2. Unzip and install Cyberduck on Mac or Windows.
3. Open Cyberduck and click on "Open connection"
cyberduck Access a Apple Tv via FTP
4. Select SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
5. Under Server, use your Apple tv's IP adress. Something like "192.168.1.100"
6. Default Username is root
7. Default Password is alpine

Now you are connected.

14Jun/110

Apple TV 2 NAS Streaming with XBMC using Samba

SSHing or use FTP to manually editing the sources.xml file, located at this path:

/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/sources.xml

Add a new samba source like this:

<source>
<name>MyShareName</name>
<path pathversion="1">smb://username:password@server.com/share/video/</path>
</source>

Restart XBMC.