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OS

AppleTV runs OS X 10.4.7

Status

Installed:

  • [NitoTV][34][?][34]
  • Perian
  • [ATVFiles][35][?][35]
  • Sapphire
  • [VineVNC][36][?][36]
  • XBMC

  • Boxee

    cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/ mkdir PlugIns.disabled

Ogg and Flac support

Need [XiphQT][37][?][37] for ogg and flac support

Album Art

[ATVFiles][35][?][35] looks for folder.jpg (or cover.jpg)

DVD Cover Art

[ATVFiles][35][?][35] looks for MOVIENAME.jpg

Movie Stacking

(Linking part 1of2 and 2of2 together) [ATVFiles][35][?][35] uses the following regex: 

( [ _\\.-]+cd[ _\\.-]*([0-9a-d]+), [ _\\.-]+dvd[ _\\.-]*([0-9a-d]+), [ _\\.-]+part[ _\\.-]*([0-9a-d]+), ()([a-d])(\\....)$ )

Matches strings like " - cd1", " - part 1"

Movie Metadata

Encoding

Handbrake AppleTV preset: 

./handbrake -i "${DVD_DEVICE}" -L \
           -E aac+ac3 -B 160 -R 48 \
           -2 -e x264 -p -b 2500 -x bframes=3:ref=1:subme=5:me=umh:no-fast-pskip=1:trellis=2:cabac=0 \
           -f mp4 -o "${FINAL_TARGET}/${TITLE}.mp4"

Bugs

  • SMB mounted shares show wrong names for files with special characters

Update to 2.1

Tools

Built from source:

  • dmg2img
  • poke
  • prelink_tool

Patching updated kernel

Installing iTunes

Vim

Factory Reset

2008-11-09 - Had to factory reset after problems with [CoreVideo][42][?][42] and a botched copy of /System to /mnt/Scratch/System.

Now have a patchstick created by atv-usb-creator

  1. Factory reset to 1.0
  2. Patchsticked to add SSH

  3. scp 2.1 update and osupdate to v2.1 hastur$ scp osupdate 2Z694-5485-1.dmg appletv: appletv$ mkdir ~/Updates && mv 2Z694-5485-1.dmg ~/Updates appletv$ sudo ./osupdate

  4. re-Patchstick

  5. restore [UserData][43][?][43] library

  6. reinstall nitoTV Take Two $ wget http://nitosoft.com/nitoTVInstaller_tt.zip $ unzip nitoTVInstaller_tt.zip $ sudo ./installme

  7. reinstall Perian, kextloader, smbfs

  8. create SMB startup item

[ToDo][46][?][46]

  1. configure Boxee
    1. Index local media
    2. Auto-route hulu.com via Yuggoth
    3. Install iPlayer plugin

Boxee Configuration

Network Sources

BBC iPlayer

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=289 

$ wget http://xbmc-iplayer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xbmc-iplayer-plugin.zip
$ mkdir -p /Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/plugins/video/iPlayer
$ unzip xbmc-iplayer-plugin.zip -d /Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/plugins/video/iPlayer
$ vim ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/profiles/$PROFILE_NAME/sources.xml 
        <source>
            <name>iPlayer</name>
            <path>plugin://video/iPlayer/</path>
            <private>false</private>
        </source>
EOF

XBMC Configuration

  • Installed iPlayer plugin in /Users/frontrow/Library/Application\ Support/XBMC...
    • works, but slowly
  • [MythTV][47][?][47] plugin not working

Subtitle Support

  • Soft subs supported in 2.2 and 2.3 UI. (2.3 fixed display bugs)
  • Mux ttxt to .m4v with [MP4Box][48][?][48], hexedit 's/text/sbtl'
  • Can't update to 2.2 or 2.3 yet - Sapphire not yet updated.

Accidental update to 2.3

Block Updates

sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 mesu.apple.com" >> /etc/hosts'

Add [MountShares][49][?][49]

XBMC/Boxee manual update

wget http://atv-xbmc-launcher.googlecode.com/files/XBMCLauncher-0.6-debug.run
wget http://atv-xbmc-launcher.googlecode.com/svn/tags/xbmc-info/scripts/launcher-update-0.6.sh
sh launcher-update-0.6.sh XBMCLauncher-0.6-debug.run
wget http://dl.boxee.tv/boxee-0.9.4277.dmg
wget http://atv-xbmc-launcher.googlecode.com/svn/tags/boxee-info/scripts/alpha-0.9.4277_update.sh
sh alpha-0.9.4277_update.sh boxee-0.9.4277.dmg
sudo reboot

Update to Take 3

Create Patchstick

  • Used atvusb-creator on win to create image
  • dd using nixie

Update

  • comment out mesu.apple.com in /etc/hosts
  • update and reboot

Reinstall

  • insert patchstick, reboot

Sapphire

wget http://appletv.nanopi.net/getFile/Sapphire_1.0b7.7.sh
chmod a+x ./Sapphire_1.0b7.7.sh
./Sapphire_1.0b7.7.sh

nitoTV

Xiph codecs

wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/xiph-qt/xiph-qt-decoders-0.1.9.dmg
hdid xiph-qt-decoders-0.1.9.dmg
sudo cp -R /Volumes/Xiph\ 0.1.9/XiphQT\ \(decoders\).component /Library/Components/
umount /Volumes/Xiph\ 0.1.9

SNMP

Hulu

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