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FireCore's Media Player (ATV2)

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Aikouka

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I received an e-mail from FireCore (they make Seas0nPass among other things) that a new version of Media Player was released. Now, I've never actually heard of it before, so I was a bit curious. It turns out, it's another media player (I would never have guessed) for the 2nd generation AppleTV that can be loaded when it's hacked.

http://blog.firecore.com/5001

Has anyone tried this at all? How does it compare to XBMC? My only complaint about XBMC would probably be the menus are a bit slow, so I'm not sure if this would be worth it, but I think I can give it a shot.

As an aside, I've never understood why they don't make a simpler skin for XBMC on the ATV2 to reduce the choppiness.
 
I haven't tried the nightly builds as I'm still on 4.2.1. I've been subscribing to the "don't break what still technically works" philosophy with it. 😉 I've seen enough threads of people having trouble upgrading to 4.3.3 ( and now 4.3.4 ) and having issues with it!
 
I'm still on 4.2.1 too. And I'm not on nightly build either. But there are 3 versions of the official build. 10.0.7 is the original. 10.0.9 is the latest. I recently upgraded to the official 10.0.9 because I needed that to make free Hulu work along with Free Cable. StreamDB also wouldnt work on 10.0.7. Both 10.0.7 and 9 are pretty fast. 10.0.8 is dog slow and buggy. That's why I asked for the version number.

I JB 8 ATV2. I thought 4.3.3 would be hard because I read several posts here from people having problems JB it. 4.3.3 is actually lot easier than the old 4.2.1.
 
I normally have the NikoTV thing update its own extra software, but I don't think I've ever seen XBMC updated through it. Do I have to update it separately through their own repository?
 
Nito can update it or you can putty in the commands. I couldn't use Nito to update on two of my units because of the stupid Plex program had set the update directory to Plex upstream servers. BTW Plex blows on Apple TV. I couldn't use the regular terminal commands to update. Had to manually link it to the files on the XBMC server mirror to get it to update. Was total pain.

Go into Nito and you can update XBMC inside there. You have to select it. Once your on 10.0.9 Hulu will work along with thestreamingDB. You need Bluecop zip for Hulu and have to update lib.
 
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