After a quiet period we finally have some good news again! Our good member Dakaix just released a plugin that’ll rock your world. No, really. It’s called Streamer, and it is the 1st plugin that can play streaming media on your AppleTV.
According to Dakaix, it’s based on mplayer. This means that this plugin creates a ton of potential for other media formats to be supported on the AppleTV.
So far, Streamer is tested on Real streams. Your mileage may vary. Please put your comments, requests, bug reports etc. in the Streamer forum.
Oh, Dakaix told me that he wanted to give a big thanks to Alan for his support during the initial development period.
Alan_quatermain presents the AwkwardTV Loader, a plug-in that displays all available third-party plug-ins right on the Apple TV and lets you install them from the Net on-the-fly.
Closed beta testing for a limited number of people is underway. Potential testers can keep an eye out for information on the #awkwardtv channel or the wiki.
TUAW reports: Over at the #awkwardtv IRC channel, poster “Beyond” just announced that he’s gotten Gentoo Linux installed and running on his Apple TV. He used the mach_linux_kernel maker from mactel_linux (aka Gimli’s loader). The OS (2.6.20.6 with the AppleTV patch) seems to be up and working after a few initial problems (now solved) with repeating characters.
Finally, the screen saver problem has been solved too!
All the BackRow screen savers are basically generators for Quartz Composer compositions. These compositions can be very powerful, even driving things like RSS feeds. In fact, that’s the example we’ll use in the AwkwardTV FRScreenSaver 101 tutorial.
Be sure to post your plug-ins and screensavers on the Apple TV Plug-in Directory, so that people can find them!
AwkwardTV contributor bholland has released IRKeyboardEmu, a Mac OS X kernel extension for emulating HID command reports sent by an Apple Remote. This gives you the ability to control OS X and FrontRow via keyboard. Apple Wireless Keyboard on the Apple TV, anyone?
Jon Lech Johansenwonders on his blog why the packaging of his Apple TV gives credit to the National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site Office. Wait a second, “DVD-Jon” got an Apple TV? What will happen next? Be sure to check the ever-growing list of file formats working on Apple TV.
l0rdr0ck, who was awarded $500 for making instructions available that allow the Apple TV to run Asterisk, has decided to generously share with others: $150 go to Semthex for his work on the Darwin xnu kernel (including SSE3 emulation), $100 to TomA for the AppleTVhacks site, $50 to turbo for his work on enabling USB, $40 to EricIII for ATVFiles. l0rdr0ck: “This whole thing has been as much fun as i’ve had since modding my characters in Might and Magic on the c64″.
Gimli from the mactel-linux project announces that “the wait for Linux is almost over”. Since the Apple TV refuses to run third-party EFI executables, another way had to be found. The AwkwardTV Wiki collects more information.
According to Gimli the loader, kernel patch and instructions will released after some polishing, so stay tuned.
l0rdr0ck, who was awarded $500 for making instructions available that allow the Apple TV to run Asterisk, has decided to generously share with others: $150 go to Semthex for his work on the Darwin xnu kernel (including SSE3 emulation), $100 to TomA for the AppleTVhacks site, $50 to turbo for his work on enabling USB, $40 to EricIII for ATVFiles. l0rdr0ck: “This whole thing has been as much fun as i’ve had since modding my characters in Might and Magic on the c64″.
Gimli from the mactel-linux project