Media Centre releases Jailbreak App for iPhone, iPad And Apple TV

The developers of the new XMBC Media Centre released the jailbreak application for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and 2nd generation Apple TV. The XMBC Media Centre is the former XBOX Media Centre, which is the open source media centre program. The application is not a thin client streamer or a remote, it is a XMBC client that includes support for playing a variety of codecs, with hardware support for both 720p and 1080p HD video.

With the aid of the new application, you can easily drag and drop different media from your computer or even share it with your home network. Thus, “no longer is your AppleTV2 chained to iTunes.” 

 

However, there are still some minor issues on that need to be straightened out. For example, The touch controls are not designed for 2^nd generation of Apple TV for it was for the previous generation of the device and was ported to iOS devices. Moreover, developers are working on the playback of 1080p content that was a little choppy. The developers are confident that this will be fixed soon.

The jailbreak application of XMBC is available at the Cydia App Store for free which you can easily download and install in your Apple devices. Just follow these easy steps.

• Launch Cydia on your jailbroken iOS device:
• Tap on the Manage Tab and then tap on Sources.
• Tap on the Edit button and then tap add to add the following repo URL to add sources:http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/ios/
• After it is successfully installed, tap on the Search tab and search for XBMC.
• Tap on XBMC-iOS to install it on your iPhone.

After you have done these instructions, you will see the icon of XMBC on the home screen.

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