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New download link and instructions

January 15th, 2008 | Category: Coding | Author: elan

The file is now hosted on cullman’s XBMC Trac server, and you can download it from there. In order to run the release, you need to do the following:

  • Not own a Mac Mini, because the OpenGL code doesn’t support it yet without a patch.
  • Edit UserData/sources.xml and add some sources (see this page for how it should look). Also note that we don’t support SMB yet, but that doesn’t matter, since you can mount a SMB share with Leopard. Note that Z:/ is mapped to /tmp/XBMC, so put some symbolic links in there.
  • Boot up XBMC and go to Settings -> System -> Audio Hardware and set your output (by default set to “Built-in Speaker” to where you want your audio to go.

That should be it.

8 Comments so far

  1. Julian Rodriguez January 15th, 2008 5:15 pm

    Can I get it working on the Mac mini if I compile it from source?

  2. elan January 15th, 2008 6:11 pm
  3. Jasper January 15th, 2008 10:05 pm

    The GPU is correctly identified btw :-)
    The CPU isn;t.

  4. jeeb January 16th, 2008 9:42 am

    Does this only work on Intel Macs? I have an old pre-Intel mac mini.

  5. elan January 16th, 2008 9:54 am

    Yes, sorry, only Intel Macs. The main reason is that some of the player “plug-ins” use x86 assembly. A diligent person who knew what they were doing could work around this.

  6. Gordon Mackenzie January 16th, 2008 9:04 pm

    So with the OpenGL patch the next build may possibly work with intel Mac Mini’s?

    (Now I know why I couldn’t get past the Grey Window when trying the first build)

  7. HenrikDK January 16th, 2008 10:17 pm

    @Gordon Mackenzie, that problems caused by system/profiles.xml pointing to an invalid xbmc home directory make sure the path corresponds to the path you exported to XBMC_HOME + the UserData folder

  8. AK2007 February 4th, 2008 9:42 am

    Has anyone used this on AppleTV Yet?

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