Apple TV hacking looks fun
The Apple TV has not been out for a week and people have opened up the little fella and have had a play with its underbelly.
So far they have ..
- installed a Xvid codec
- installed samba
- installed ssh (and opened up the ports)
- installed a 120gb hard drive
For me this is sweet. I’m thinking about setting up a media server in a wardrobe somewhere to serve daap to the family’s computers and broadcast music to me when I’m at work (through a ssh tunnel.. possibly). This little baby will be running Ubuntu on a low level PC and a few massive hard drives full of content.
Now if the Apple TV could connect via samba to this server and play my ripped DVDs, that would be so nice. It might be even better if it could connect via daap and stream video content from an non iTunes source, then it would make the most of apple tvs already buffering and caching system.
So please hack on!
Readings
Macdevcenter article
appletv hacker
appletvhacks.net
Somethingawful thread on the hacking
Gizmondo covers diy 120gig upgrade
Digg’s “OMG LOLZ H4XXORS”