Fircore just announced a new update to their popular aTV Flash. This adds a boatload of extra functionality than the stock firmware for Apple TV currently has…
aTV Flash 1.6 adds the ability to fetch subtitles thanks to integrated opensubtitles.org functionality. One of the bigger features this update offers is the ability to watch movies you’ve previous purchased directly from iTunes by providing your login credentials.
Here’s the detailed change log:
- Added video deinterlacing option
- Added Wake-on-Lan (WOL)
- Added Portuguese (Portugal) translation
- Added support for displaying subtitles in lower ‘black bar’
- Added support for .WTV files
- Added support for multiple simultaneous AFP connections
- Improved bulk fetching & added automatic artwork caching
- Improved automatic downscaling for large thumbnails
- Improved metadata reloading for images
- Improved buffering over AFP
- Resolved various audio synchronization issues
- Resolved possible overflow in 5.1 AC3 audio
- Resolved issues with zoom for 4:3 movies
- Resolved missing audio for .dvr-ms files (ASF containers)
- Resolved rare SRT file crash
- Resolved issues with slideshow animation
- Resolved file specific metadata fetching issues
- Resolved rare ISO file crashes
- Resolved issue with displaying identical thumbnails for images with the same name
- Resolved metadata loading issues for files containing non-latin characters
- Resolved rare 5ch audio file crash
- Resolved issues with incorrect metadata for files with ‘/S01E0.avi’ pattern
- Resolved auto-start issues in Couch Surfer
- Reduced memory footprint for large software-decoded videos and slideshows
- Other minor UI improvements & bug fixes
Your Apple TV must be jailbroken in order to install aTV Flash. Furthermore, there’s currently no jailbreak for Apple TV 3. You can jailbreak your Apple TV 2 using Seas0nPass which is a free download from FireCore. aTV Flash is available now from FireCore for $29.95.
Source: FireCore
