Installing XBMC on AppleTV 2
Assuming that you have already JB'ed, and you already have the akward repo installed....
$ echo "deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get -y install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
It will install and reboot Lowtide.....
AppleTV 2 and DFU
Don't try and use one of the old white remotes. It just won't work. I found out the hard way when I misplaced my metal remote and wanted to JB my ATV2.
The white ones will control the ATV2 fine, but they will not let it enter DFU.
PowerMac G5 and LACP
I've been playing around recently with backups, trying to get them going again for my data. I'm moving the backups to my oldest Mac, a G5 Metal Tower. I purchased a gig ethernet card for it and since it comes with built-in gig I wanted to setup LACP with it.
LACP will bond the two ethernet cards into one link on my switch. I set the switch up and had LACP working. I could verify it was working since I also set it for my NAS which was happily used the LCAP ports.
The key to setting up LCAP on Leopard is the the little 'tool' widget/control in the Network Preference Pane:
Selecting Manage Virtual Interfaces leads you to this sub-panel:
Where you can create a new bonded 'virtual' interface.
You can then add in your two ethernet interfaces to this, and the should come up and negotiate with teh LCAP enabled ports on your switch.
I'm only running Leopard on my G5, but it had some serious errors with both interfaces plugged into the switch. It came up but had no BW - it could barely load a web page. Unplugging one of the physical links resolved the issue, but defeats the purpose of the LCAP. I'm doing more investigation as to why this won't work properly.
Plex vs. XMBC on AppleTV
So now that XMBC is available for AppleTV2 it's time to compare it to Plex. I've played around with them for the past few days and can say that: Plex is worth the extra complexity. I've been told (never having used XBMC) that Plex was 'just a port' of it, so why not use XBMC itself?
The additional categorization and features from Plex easily outweigh the need to have a dedicated server (if you have a system sitting around).
Big issue with XBMC is that it's memory hog- it runs up ram and causes a LowTide reset often in the middle of movies. Plex rarely does this.
I'm working on a more thorough write up on the features, but TL;DR is that Plex wins hands-down at this point.
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