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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 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) expanding its capabilities.

Especially, users have wanted to:

• Stream/sync additional formats (codecs)
• Increase internal storage and connect external storage
• Control the Apple TV remotely, e.g. by SSH or VNC

This wiki is a place for the community to share ideas, discoveries and solutions.

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 ;-)

Pre-Requisites

• Pre-Requisites

Projects

(Please put your projects here)

• How to upgrade hard drive using GUI ~$100
• How to upgrade hard drive using CLI ~$45
• How to play Xvids using Perian on the Apple TV
• InsanelyMac Apple TV resource compilation
• Apache on ATV
• Linux on Apple TV (work in progress)

How To

• Install SSH
• Install System Preferences
• Disable Firewall
• Mount a Remote Drive via AFP
• Mount a Remote Drive via NFS
• Enable AFP Server (Personal File Sharing)
• USB
• Replace Finder
• Mount ReadWrite
• Enable Remote Desktop (VNC)
• Prepare a Hard Drive for use in the Apple TV
• Enable Quartz Extreme and Quartz 2D Extreme

Hardware

• Parts
• Hardware Profile
• Sysctl output
• Various diskutil command results

Software

• Apple TV OS 10.4.7 and file list of a virgin Apple TV -- List of new files (not present in retail OSX)
• Boot Process
• Watchdog
• osputil command-line program to control the LED
• dmesg output
• Ps output
• glQuery output
• kextstat output
• Media Library

Third party software

• Codec Sources
• Avi to .mov droplet To enable you to wrap avi's etc into itunes compatable files
• Remote Buddy
• MediaCentral

Potential Capabilities

• Potential Capabilities

Known Issues

• Connecting drive to PowerPC Mac makes drive unbootable
• Apple TV HDMI "Green Screen" bug

Tried & Working Video

• 720p Xvid
• MKV with VLC (Comming in perian 1.0 for Quicktime)
• DVD with VLC (Menu, subtitles, 5.1 surround working)

Wiki documentation

• Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list