Hi Jason,
The thing about that concept is as I see it, is that putting a full
blown version of osx on the apple just replaces the apple tv os with
osx, hence it wouldn't be an enhanced apple tv, it would be a mac.
grin. Which means you get Front Row, not the apple tv features.
However Front Row 2 is VO compatible so I guess if one wants a cheap
mac to perform Front Row features only with VO support, then the hack
is just the job.
Apple need to be prodded into doing is making the out of the box
apple tv os accessible, which is either going to be down to them or
down to some hacker / programmer somewhere doing it for them. I have
seen a copy of the apple tv os floating about on the net and rumours
of how to make it boot on say, a mac mini, but I'm no programmer. I
wish I was !
There are lots of hacks to make the apple tv do other things as we
know, but VO doesn't seem to be one of them. There was a thousand
dollar bounty running at apple tv hacks net as I recall for the first
person who could make the apple tv take advantage of usb devices as
main storage - which was eventually achieved. If I had that sort of
money I'd put one up for VO support because I doubt Apple are going to
do the honourable thing and do it themselves.
Rachael
On 8 May 2008, at 00:54, Jason Custer wrote:
Well, one advantage is that if it can be made accessible, it can
work as an
enhanced apple-TV, enabling vi users to watch videos and listen to
itunes,
maybe even handle flash content from the web. This makes it better
than
apple TV's original OS, just in these features alone. Add VO, and wow!
Probably not to useful as a mac considering its limited processor
power and
memory, but for it's intended purpose, it could work well.
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Hi guys.
The apple tv can and will run a full version of osx, and thus
voiceover, but
it has to be hacked first. It doesn't run the full version out of
the box,
it has it's own os as Shaun says, but it can be done. See
http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/04/01/mac-os-x-running-on-apple-tv/
This makes the apple tv a pretty cheap mac for basic stuff if one is
happy
to go poking around inside. Not sure I'm up for that myself and I
can't see
the point to be honest. But then I already have a full blown mac.
smile.
So far Apple don't seem to be interested in making the apple tv os
as it is
out of the box accessible though as far as I know, which is a bummer
as I'd
be all over one if they did. If it worked with VO like Front Row it
would be
great, as there are other hacks around to do all sorts of other
media centre
like things with the apple tv.
Rachael
On 7 May 2008, at 19:07, vashaun jones wrote:
Naw, there isn't a operating system like the one on the Mac so that
will not work. The Apple TV has its own software and maybe just
maybe it's accessible through the Mac interface if one is connected
and I tunes is running.
On May 7, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Jason Custer wrote:
Hello all,
As there is practicly no traffic on the list today, I thought I
would start
some with a question.
I've been looking at some information about apple tv.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/E1D8A057-6FBB-4269-A348-27AF
9010FB19.html
That link is to an article describing the guts of the "white box."
It shows that it runs on a 1.0 GHz. intel processor with 256 GB ram
and OSX
10.4.7.
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/index.php?title=USB
http://0xfeedbeef.com/appletv/
The above two articles show how you can boot an apple tv from usb
devices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTgC_dmp8vE
This is a video showing it done.
I have nothing to do with these links, I just found them with
google.
Here's the question. Has anybody got one of these crazy things? if
so, can
you enable the usb ports , hook up a keyboard, and try to launch
voiceover
to see what happens?
This aut to get things going around here!
Jason
