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As you probably know, AppleTV 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 AppleTV, 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
- Explore the possibilities of a Linux-based Media Center
- Allow the AppleTV to access network storage via Samba (SMB)
- Access AirPort Disc from Apple TV
- Control AppleTV with Keybord Arrows (AppleTV runing on Mac Pro without IR)
This wiki is a place for the community to share ideas, discoveries and solutions.
Latest News
- Enabling of USB has started
- 29 March 2007 - Apple Mods being dissabled [tutorialninjas]
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
Projects
(Please put your projects here)
- How to upgrade hard drive with GUI tools($100) or CLI
- How to upgrade hard drive using command line. (more pictures)
- 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)
- Enable Internet Sharing (work in progress)
- Install Developer Tools (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 AppleTV
- Enabling USB and boot from USB (External Hard Drive)
- Enable SSH Without Opening the Apple TV (work in progress)
- Configure 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)
- Working with ASL (Syslog)
- Enable Remote Desktop (VNC)
- Enable Quartz Extreme and Quartz 2D Extreme (To Speed Up Certain Applications)
- How To 'Enable' Mouse Cursor/Pointer on the AppleTV
- Uncompress LZSS compressed files like mach_kernel.prelink
- How To Run Apple-TV as a standalone app on Any Intel Mac
Hardware
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
- screencapture
- dmesg output
- Ps output
- glQuery output
- kextstat output
- Media Library
- Open Source 10.4.8 Components you can install on Apple TV
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.
- MacPorts suggestions to bootstrap the MacPorts infrastructure natively
- Xbench 1.3 Benchmark
Potential Capabilities
Known Issues
- Connecting drive to PowerPC Mac makes drive unbootable (successes reported inside as well)
- 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
