Comments on: AppleTV Hacks

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:25:56 +0000

@Patrick - Check out http://www.patchstick.ca for working hacks for Mac and Windows.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:51:54 +0000

I have lost my hacks since upgrading to Apple TV 2.1. Arrrgghhhh! So now I’m trying to figure out a way to revert back to 2.0.2 so my hacks work. I’ll be documenting my journey at my site.

Any of you interested folks are welcome to join me in figuring this out.

-Patrick

By: James

James — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:33:06 +0000

I should pay more attention to these comments! sorry for the absence! My wife and I had a baby girl on March 11, so it’s been go go go since then! However I’m back and hopefully can help some of you guys out if you still need a hand!

James

By: greg

greg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:41:20 +0000

Hi James
The wiki article on activating afp on 1.1 machines now states that the combo update doesn’t work as Apple have removed the afp_mount file. Any chance you could send me the missing files so I could get this going?
Thanks

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By: JM

JM — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:01:27 +0000

Hi James,

try to get Firefox running on my ATV this week-end but got a problem:

I can not find /Users/frontrow/Documents/Applist.plist file, i don´t know why and it drives me a bit nuts.

I can see the application menu with 3options, about, close and reboot, so this file should exist !!

But i do not know where i can find it, i also tried to create one following tha awkward wiki guide but no extra applications appear on the menu.

Any idea ???

Thanks

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:30:12 +0000

James,

Most definitley an Aussie…but living in the UK!! By the way, I like the kitchen mac..need to warm up the missus to this idea..you must have money to burn considering the aussie prices for that machine. Hat off to you man !

Following on from your wise words…’I’d recommend ripping the DVD to disk first’…..
do you mean copying the dvd to my iMac and then exporting/ftp it over the the ATV? I don’t particularly want to encode it to ATV format which I believe takes a lifetime per disk

Cheers

By: James

James — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:21:30 +0000

ilook: you’ll be chasing an ISO, or other kind of image (not a .dmg mac file) I wish I could help more with this!

Dean: same as ilook… unfortunately I can only suggest searching the net for the required image file to “image” the patchstick to a USB stick. Try asking at the awkwardtv forums perhaps!

Stephen, welcome to the site, another Aussie?
The DVD’s you buy from JB need to be “ripped and encoded” into a format playable by the AppleTV. This is possible out of the box without hacking the AppleTV. (through iTunes, etc)

However, with a hacked ATV, you can actually put your DVD in a computer on your network, and the AppleTV (using nitoTV plugin) can play the DVD over the network from that DVD drive in that computer. I’ve done this, however it’s not that reliable. I’d recommend ripping the DVD to disk first.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:42:11 +0000

James,

Given my lack of understanding for video formats etc, in your second paragraph above where you state what your ATV is currently capable of, does this include the format for dvds that I have bought from JB HiFI etc ?

Thanks

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:52:56 +0000

James,
I have recently bought an ATV and a have it linked to an eMac PowerPC. I’d like to get the the ATV doing some of the groovy things that involve getting it hacked. Any suggestions (or help) on how I can get a patchstick to do this, as I’d prefer not to pull both machines apart, or fiddle with files too much.

Thanks