Man is nitoTV the bomb or what? I installed it as soon as I had my appleTV hacked. which I’ve written about before, but get this, the latest version has some very important and cool things built in.
Firstly, you can install additional software/hacks from within nitoTV now. Things like smb/afp network mounting (i already did this manually). The best of all. the turbo kext USB hack! I was going to get around to doing this hack manually, one day. But nitoTV just makes it so simple already! I carried out the hack, rebooted the ATV, and plugged in an external hard disk drive. booyah!
I setup a symbolic link in my ~/movies/ folder to point to the mounted hard disk (called laser) like this:
sudo ln -s /Volumes/LASER/ ~/movies
so now when using nito or atvfiles and I’m browsing like I would browse a network share, the external hard disk appears in my files list. I think this will be the way to go. Streaming movies across my wireless “G” network was fine, but not when the microwave was running! stupid 2.4Ghz…. not cool when cooking dinner!
Do yourself a favour, build a patch stick, then install the latest nitoTV, the rest is really simple!
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