It didn’t take long for our jailbroken AppleTV‘s to get rocking with custom Apps. The first app to come to AppleTV is called nitoTV. The application is a front end application for the popular mplayer media player. using perian and Apple’s DVDPlayback.framework, users can create playlists and add files or folders of their choice. What else does this nitoTV do? It’s more than just a media player. Supposedly you can use nitoTV to play NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Gear, and GameBoy Advanced roms, view RSS feeds, and 3-day Weather forecasts.

At this point, you should be able to play any media file types. However, the installation process might have the inexperienced scratching their heads. you will be required to SSH the files over to your AppleTV. As of right now, not everything is working 100% but this is still a big step forward for Apps on the AppleTV. NitoTV has tweeted “oh and ill do my best to have a basic nitoTV out soon with at least Weather and RSS feeds working.. other stuff will take longer.”

In the mean time if you haven’t already jailbroken your Apple TV, you can follow our guide here.

So we can expect some updates in the near future for nitoTV. Grab the installer and read more about it below by hitting the source link! As usual, stay tuned for more news and info on the topic by following us on Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feed.

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[Source: Wikipedia (NitoTV Take 2)]

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