Okay...this has been driving me up the @$%&ing wall all yesterday and today. I have literally spent HOURS flashing and trying all kinds of fixes to get this working. I'm going to list what I have done.
1.) ATV running 4.1.1 (iOS 4.2.1) haven't really used it a few months so updated some stuff. See XBMC has a new layout...but after the update none of my MKVs will play anymore. Do some research and decided to just upgrade to the latest 4.3 and jailbreak that. Saved SHSH Blobs etc.
2.) Spent a hellish night getting the stupid thing to restore in iTunes (error 21, then error 16, then error 1600...ARGHHHHHHHH). Finally got it and updated. See OverFlow no longer works as well as some other things. FINE. As long as XBMC will play my MKVs. Does it? NO. So I keep reading. I did the hosts edit from a couple pages back, did updatebegone and also in nitoTV to disable them. Nothing. Also none of my MKVs have subtitles so I don't even know how I would do this OSD menu thing anyway. Everytime I try doing it with a regular AVI (those play fine) the Subtitles menu just tells me "None". Going to the other menu for settings there is no setting for Subtitles, but I press "Apply this to all videos" anyway. Still nothing. I also updated to the latest nightly as described by this page
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ins...MC_on_ATV2
also to no Avail. I also set subtitles to false in the guisettings.xml file. Still not working.
3.) Fine. It's obviously 4.3. So I decide a clean install with Seas0nPass again for 4.1.1. (iOS 4.2.1), and all goes well with the install..just did it an hour ago. Re-download XBMC from Nito..still doesn't work. Do everything as stated above (guisettings edit, updatebegone, hosts file ALL OF IT), it still refuses to do this. I have also rebooted my AppleTV several times to no avail as well (killall AppleTV, reboot, and even removing the stupid power). Did the nightly as well as stated there..and AGAIN still crashes back to the home screen.
Also here's what I updated/installed with nito on both installs
openSSH
updateBeGone
OVerflow
MainMenuSlideshow
Screensaver Settings
Exposed
BTStack
...I don't know what else I can do at this point. It is LITERALLY driving me insane. (I am about to throw this hockey puck of an ATV2 against the wall).
Please..someone tell me something else..ANYTHING else to try that might work. I have tried multiple of my MKVs and none of them refuse to play (I see "working" then just crashes back to the ATV2 main menu)..yet my AVIs play fine. It annoys me because the older version of XBMC played it FINE, which is why I'm wondering what this new version did to break everything.
I also have the xbmc.log file and did enable Debugging but looking at it..not sure what part I would post. I obviously don't want to post the whole thing since it shows me whole IP pulling the file from my UPNP server on it as well, but if someone would let me know what part to post so they can help, I would greatly appreciate it.