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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.

Latest News

• USB boot has been achieved
• Apple TV OS running on a MacBook

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 GUI ($100)
• How to upgrade hard drive using command line ($45)
• How To Play Xvid and Divx Videos on Apple TV
• InsanelyMac Apple TV resource compilation
• Apache on Apple TV
• Linux on Apple TV (work in progress)

How To

• Backup your original Hard Drive Save a bit perfect image before you play!
• Prepare a Hard Drive for use in the Apple TV
• Boot from USB
  • Enable SSH Without Opening the AppleTV
• Disable Firewall
• Install SSH
• Install System Preferences
• Mount ReadWrite
• Mount a Remote Drive via AFP
• Mount a Remote Drive via NFS
• Replace Finder
• Enable Verbose Boot
• Enable AFP Server (Personal File Sharing)
• Enable Remote Desktop (VNC)
• 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 save xvid/divx/avi videos as self contained movies (.mov) that iTunes will allow you to sync
• Remote Buddy
• MediaCentral
• nano Excellent, lightweight text editor for scripts and such.
• vim Another classic text editor.
• Xbench 1.3 Benchmark

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 (Coming in perian 1.0 for Quicktime)
• .vob(DVDrip) 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