Re: Apple TV

["Ben McCormack" <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to add to this, you can now hack the AppleTV without opening it
up usi=
ng Patchstick=20
(Copy some stuff to USB drive and connect to appleTV and reboot)

I am running a similar setup, music from internal drive and TV shows and
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vies from=20
NAS. Working very well

Ben

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Chris Miles" <chrismiles@...>
wrote:
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> Hi folks.
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> I got my Apple TV a few weeks ago. All working a treat now.
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> As soon as I got it I had it open killing my warranty (only way im
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), Ripped the 2.5"=20
hard drive out and connected it to my external USB caddy. I then installed
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the trial copy of=20
MacDrive which allows me to get read/write access to Mac partitions on the
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external drive.
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> Now it was just a case of dropping the OSX version of SSH into a bin
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ctory of=20
choosing, and drop a startup script which will start up the SSH daemon on
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ext boot.
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> Now I have full SSH access, which means I can SCP file in and out of
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box as well.
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> Installed a bunch of plugins and software from www.awkwardtv.org which
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low me to=20
mount my samba network shares from my NAS box, and also to play a variety
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f files such=20
as XVid, DivX, and DVD - streaming MPEG over wireless is horrible though,
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he built in wifi=20
adapter must only be capable of 802.11g, which just does not cut the
mustar=
d - yay for=20
my CAT5 infrastructure throughout my house though.
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> I am using the built in 40gb for syncing music from iTunes, and just
runn=
ing everything=20
else straight off NAS, and it is working a treat.
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> Has HD support, although I only have a max of 576p on my current TV at
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e moment,=20
and it allows me to select from a variety of output resolutions, and
refres=
h rates.
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> One drawback through is that it only has DVI and component outputs,
Apple=
have=20
assumed that anyone with a wide screen TV is likely to have a component
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eo input,=20
which is obviously not the case with various CRT wide screens, and
obviousl=
y not much=20
use for us who use composite video distribution systems, so at the moment
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just have it=20
connected straight to one of my TVs and not distributing it untill I get
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appropriate=20
converter.
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> One such converter is available here - http://www.svideo.com/appletv2tv.h=
tml -- does=20
anyone else know another product which can do similar to this?
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> Loving it through, and the user interface like other Apple stuff is
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accessable, and=20
easy to use for all members of the family without much struggle.
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> =A3200 for the 40gb model. Couldnt see the point of upgrading to the
160g=
b.
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> Chris
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