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[edit] Welcome to the AwkwardTV Wiki

As you probably know, Apple TV is a set-top box manufactured by Apple. Out of the box, it is enabled to stream digital content from any computer running iTunes. As there is little information provided about what is going on "under the hood" of the Apple TV, this is a place to collect and share information.

This website is dedicated to finding additional uses for the Apple TV by (legitimately) enabling its Potential Capabilities, and is a place for the community to share ideas, discoveries and solutions. As such, when you add any comments or questions (not contributions to an informational page) please sign it using the signature button, button_sig.png, or four tildes (~~~~). It is for informational purposes only. AwkwardTV is not responsible if you void your warranty or damage your device.

[edit] Beginners Guides

If you're just getting started and trying to learn how to hack your Apple TV, then checking out the Beginners Guides section is probably the best place to start. This will help the novice get started with hacking the Apple TV, explaining steps in detail. Now in three flavours, we have:

  • A Guide for 3.x. This is for those who want to run the "new" menu system that Apple released in October 2009.
  • A Guide for 2.x aka Take 2. This is for those who want to run the menu system that Apple released in February 2008.
  • A Guide for 1.x. This is for those who want to run the "old" menu system prior to Take 2 which was released February 2008.
  • HackMeNot or The Alternative To Hacking. Tried hacking and messed it up? Just can't get stuff to work? Or think that it's just too complicated. You can get more from your Apple TV than you think with a few free apps and the correct settings in iTunes.

[edit] How To's

  • How To Section covering Hard Drive Preparation and General Software Modifications.
  • Take 2 Full Update - Walkthrough on getting your new AppleTV Take 2 modified with SSH, new codecs, USB support and more

[edit] Plugins

[edit] Development

[edit] Advanced BackRow Coding - An Ongoing Series

  1. Introduction To Custom Controls
  2. A Custom Layer Controller
  3. A Downloader Controller

[edit] Resources

IRC: You can find us on IRC: #awkwardtv on irc.moofspeak.net. Register your Nick Please feel free to contribute! We are all learners at this stage ;-)

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[edit] Prerequisites

[edit] Latest News

Archived News

[edit] Projects

(Please put your projects here-- in categories)

[edit] OS Related

[edit] Awkward Project Wikis

  • ATVFiles Plugin to play back video files that are not in the Apple TV library.
  • ATVFiles Cover Downloader Script to download dvd/tv/hddvd cover images and XML metadata for ATVFiles
  • Streamer Streaming Audio player, using MPlayer.
  • ATV Loader Download and install new appliance plugins, enable and disable SSH and AFP access to your AppleTV.
  • Applications Menu Run any Mac OSX program on AppleTV
  • ATVTorrents A rtorrent controller for AppleTV
  • NitoTV mplayer video playlist, video_ts, iso playback - For AppleTV version 1.0 & 1.1 Only
  • NitoTV Take 2 Updated version of NitoTV for Take2 and 2.01 AppleTV - movie, photo, music playback, RSS feeds, Weather and more.
  • Emulation Efforts to test and tweak compatibility regarding Game Emulation. (work in progress)
  • Install Developer Tools (work in progress)
  • Patch Over Network - Patching AppleTV over the network (without opening case) (work in progress)
  • Enable Internet Sharing (work in progress)
  • Volume control Control the volume (analogue) with the remote control + and - (during playback) (work in progress)
  • HD DVD Playback Enable USB-based XBOX HD-DVD Player to allow regular or HighDefinition DVDs with DVD Player.app
  • VLC Plugin A first implementation, lots of bugs..
  • TorrentFlux-b4rt Make your ATV download your torrents & direct links itself.
  • Transmission on AppleTV the best torrent client for any platform
  • Broadcom HD Decoder hardware and software installation

[edit] Outside Awkward

[edit] Hardware

Does anybody fancy upgrading their RAM using a SMD removal kit? http://www.rsrelectronics.com/sdr_smd1.htm

[edit] Software

[edit] Third party software

[edit] Potential Capabilities

[edit] Known Issues

[edit] Tried & Working Video

[edit] Wiki documentation

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