Monday, December 26, 2011

How to get IceFilms on a Jailbroken AppleTV 2

If you haven't already jailbroken your ATV2 or installed nitoTV and got XBMC through it, please start HERE.  Finally to truly enjoy streaming media over the internet, such as watching TV Shows or Movies, you'll need to get IceFilms on to your XBMC.


1A. What you need before starting tutorial:
Get WinSCP here.
Download a zip file from here. (Do not unzip)

1B. Start WinSCP and input the IP Address of to ATV2.  For Username: root and Password: alpine

1C. Once logged on with WinSCP, copy the zip file you just downloaded to the /private/var/mobile/Media location.  Should look something like this:

1D. Once successfully moving zip file to your ATV2 system files.  Head over to the XBMC SYSTEM menu.

-Then Add-ons.
-Then install from zip file, now find the zip file, which should be /private/var/mobile/Media location.
-Now back out and go to Get Add-ons.  
-Find anarchintosh add-on and click it which will bring you to a blank list. (now you will have to do a tethered re-boot)
-After reconnecting your ATV2, return to XBMC Get Add-ons and find anarchintosh add-on and click it, now IceFilms should show up on this list and install it.
-And go to VIDEOS on the main screen of XBMC and click on Video add-ons, and click on IceFilms, which will now install source content (approx 230mb).

There you have it! Enjoy!

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1 comment:

FasiYoo said...

Great tutorial! Simple and easy to follow. Thanks for posting :)