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How-To: Making The Most Of Apple TV With XBMC And Boxee by Aug 18, 2009 - 2:00 PM CST. The Apple TV, as envisioned by Apple (s aapl), is truly a very niche market device. You’re basically paying money for something that lets you pay more money to buy or rent music, movies and TV shows from the iTunes store. Sure, you can also stream content from iTunes on a computer, but when trying to stream from a central generic media device, the out of the box software just doesn’t cut it. It is, however, possible to customize your Apple TV with unauthorized third party software (much like a jailbreak for iPhones/iPod touches) to transform it into a fantastic cheap media player (with certain limitations). Shane I’ve been using an ATV & XBMC for over a year, I’ve never even touched the other stuff it comes with.

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I prefer the ATV to a mini because it’s eaiser to explain to my wife how to get XBMC started if the system crashes for what ever reason. The only drawback is the in ability of the system to play back full HD (@ 1080), which I’ve had my mini do. While some might say an optical drive would be nice, the purpose of having the system run the xbmc is to do away for need to these thingsbut that’s my opinion.

McDave “Its important to note, however, that some 720p HD playback can be a bit jerky, due to XBMC not having hardware acceleration support” No, this is because like other generic media extenders your ATV tries to playback content as well as it can, it can’t guarantee playback unless you fix the media to a standard profile. In connecting it directly with open content of any profile you’ve bypassed iTunes’ QA step (convert to AppleTV) that ensures the content will play back on the ATV. This step means consumers aren’t exposed to the sub-par experience you describe as it provides the same guarantee that allows DVD Video profile media from any source to play on any DVD Video player. Let’s hope the hackers will provide their own QA function and see it as a critical requirement rather than part of a locked-down system which is trying to oppress them! (probably some kind of self-assurance that they’re actually important enough to oppress).

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Until then my ATV will remain un-hacked. Keith Smith I have 2 AppleTVs with boxee on both of them. It works great for me and was the simplest solution for streaming video content I have on my computer to the TV. Haven’t had any of the jerkiness mentioned, just looks great. I have a windows box so creating the patchstick was more complicated than necessary but I believe they now have a true windows release so it should be easier for most. Also, I can access Hulu, though it’s been an on and off again thing, but right now it is on.

I love Boxee. MarceloR The AppleTV is such a nice little machine it’s too bad Apple only sees it as an avenue for selling iTunes stuff on. I am not interested in purchasing video/music from anyone. Neither am I interested in the social networking that seems to be the emphasis in Boxee. My only interest in it as a media center would be to play my collection of DVD that were ripped (VideoTS) into my server.

I did try hacking it when it first came out and then later I tried early versions of Boxee on it a couple of times. Unfortunately I could never get it to quite do the trick for me so I found another use for it. Early on I installed Debian Linux on it and carried it in the same fashion that some people carry a dumb external USB hard disk as it is smaller than most when you account for the power brick. I had it setup so that it did automated backups on my laptop, it acted as my Subversion server, well, in short, it was a full fledged portable server.

Some months ago my needs changed so now it just sits around. Maybe I’ll give XBMC/Boxee a try a third time now that you’ve reminded me of it. Qutluch patlh sovmo wondershare pdf converter for mac. Comments are closed.