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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 expanding its capabilities.

Especially, users have been wanting to:

   * Stream/sync additional formats (codecs)
   * Increase internal storage
   * Connect external storage
   * Control the Apple TV remotely, e.g. by SSH or ARD 

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. Please feel free to contribute! We are all learners at this stage ;-)

Pre-Requisites

• Pre-Requisites

Hardware

• Parts
• Hardware Profile
• Sysctl output
• Ps output

Software

• Apple TV OS 10.4.7
• Watchdog
• osputil
• dmesg output

Third party software

• Codec Sources

Potential Capabilities

• Potential Capabilities

Projects

(Please put your projects here)

• Upgrade hard drive http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/diy-apple-tv-hard-drive-upgraded-to-120gb-246567.php
• Xvid using Perian on the Apple TV http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2391956
• InsanelyMac Apple TV resource compilation http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=46241

Wiki documentation

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