Please note, the linked site is not, in any way, related to any of the the AwkwardTV admins. We do not control what’s on there.

Sadly, they also removed just about everything from the image that wasn’t absolutely necessary for the functioning of the AppleTV software itself. So that means that there is no longer an AFP server, or AFP, NFS, etc. clients. We’ll be looking into a number of workarounds for that over the coming days, and we’ll post any useful information here.

Plugin developers were also in for a surprise when their appliance plugins stopped working on the new system. This was due to some (minor) changes in the way plugins were validated and loaded, particularly concerning the new parental controls within the latest AppleTV software. However, these were quickly worked around, and information posted on the AwkwardTV wiki detailing how to update appliance plugins for the new system.

So far ATVFiles and ATVLoader have been updated for the new system, and the BackRow Developers’ Kit has been updated to use it too, including new 1.1-compatible project templates and headers.

More information can be found here:

• The wiki page on the update
• The forum thread on the update
• Alan Quatermain’s post on the new Loader and BDK

Newcomer Xdog of the AwkwardTV community made one hell of a surprise entry. He created “A Series of Tubes” (or ASOT in short), which is a frappliance (plugin) that plays YouTube movies. We already posted a preview of it, but now you can grab it yourself.

Please see the wiki entry for more info, and use the forums to ask questions or thank Xdog

EDIT: due to a small bug, version 1.0.1 got released. Grab it here.

|bile| from the AwkwardTV community just gave us a preview of his “nitoTV” plugin. It plays movies using mplayer.

With the forum we hope to reach an even larger audience with news, hacks and all other things AppleTV.
We hope you’ll enjoy your stay!

EricIII from AwkwardTV has posted FRAppliance 101, the first in a likely series of tutorials on writing Apple TV Finder.app plugins (also known as FRAppliances). The basic setup of Xcode and the development environment is described, and the creation of a simple “Hello World” plugin is explained. Will Apple eventually release developer documentation?

Should you write a useful FRAppliance, please leave a notice on the Apple TV plugins page.

This proof of concept demonstrates just how (relatively) easy it is to make your custom player.

It acts like a “sedative” for the watchdog.

source

Instructions

• Compile the watchdog on your intel mac:
  gcc -o sedative TCOWatchDog-sedative.c
• copy the resulting binary to your ATV, path
  /System/Library/Extensions/
• make a backup copy of the existing Watchdog kext
• run the patcher:
  cd /System/Library/Extensions
./sedative
• clear the kext cache:
  kextcache -e
• disable the ripstop daemon:
  mkdir /etc/mach_init.disabled
mv /etc/mach_init.d/ripstop.plist \
/etc/mach_init.disabled
• Now reboot. Once rebooted, unload Watchdog:
  kextunload com.apple.driver.AppleTCOWatchdog

That should be it! Hopefully later today, phoem will see about a fully automated binary. Ofcourse, we will bring you the news ASAP.

Thanks, phoem!

Thanks to ahuxley for pointing us to the article!