Chris Carey

Category: AppleTV

  • Tricking out your AppleTV running Linux

    Tricking out your AppleTV running Linux

    Upset that your old AppleTV is left in the dust following the release of the new $99 AppleTV? Get Linux installed on that thing, and make it useful again! After getting Debian successfully installed on the AppleTV, I wondered exactly how many services can run on it without overloading it. So far, the following services…

  • Running Debian on AppleTV

    I decided to install the latest Debian to my old AppleTV in order to use it as a server in the house. It has 160GB hard drive, 256MB RAM and a 1GHz processor. I think it could work well for NAS and VPN. I pulled the drive out of the AppleTV and hooked it up…

  • AppleTV 3.0.1 works well, so far

    Upgraded to AppleTV 3.0.1 last night, installed the mods. Everything is going well so far! Have all features working such as AFP, SSH, full Codec support thanks to Perian, plus the new 3.0 menu system and iPhone Remote.

  • AppleTV 2.4 Black Screen when playing video

    After upgrading to AppleTV 2.4 and installing Perian, I no longer can play Apple videos. The device just shows a black screen. Sometimes there is sound. Edit: found a fix from westont on AwkwardTV: Sure enough, looking in the /System/Library/QuickTime folder I found a ‘Disabled’ folder had been created. This folder contained the ‘QuickTimeH264.component’ file…

  • Streaming a webcam in Linux with VLC

    I wanted a simple way to make my Linux security camera server stream live video to my TV. The server ususally runs “motion”. I disable motion, and launch this command on the server: vlc v4l:/dev/video0:size=640×480:channel=1:norm=ntsc:fps=12 –sout ‘#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=768,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=:8080}}’ -v –noaudio and this on a Linux client to test: mmsh://10.4.4.25:8081/ Then, once that is all working, I…

  • AppleTV – Got System Prefs working!

    Fixed System Preferences.app on Take 2: You have to copy PreferencePanes.framework from your Tiger disks. Copy them to /System/Library/Frameworks/ This is going to lead the way to me getting the Ethernet port sharing Internet over to the XBOX. So I can get rid of the extra unneeded WiFi box under the TV.

  • XBMC and Boxee on AppleTV

    XBMC on AppleTV is fantastic. It’s polished. It’s stable. It just works. Boxee was a bit too Alpha quality at this time. The social aspect of it is a bit more scary than useful. I’m not going to do a huge writeup on the features of each of these applications. I just want to say…

  • Weekend AppleTV Modding

    These are the steps I take to mod the AppleTV. There are a ton of howtos out there and this is mainly a resource for myself to remember how to do it. I hope it helps someone else mod their AppleTV. Please send me anything I missed!

  • More AppleTV Updates

    Trying to get System Preferences working so I can bridge or route the Ethernet port on the back of the AppleTV to my XBox. I was not able to accomplish this yet, but in my journey, I accomplished the following: Flash Installed (can watch Hulu) Firefox Installed VNC working