{"id":34,"date":"2011-01-11T01:57:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T01:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-01-11T01:57:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T01:57:55","slug":"boxee-hulu-appletv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2011\/01\/11\/boxee-hulu-appletv\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxee \/ Hulu \/ AppleTV"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is fun to be able to play with tech. I learned about Boxee<\/a> from a podcast (source now forgotten) and received an invitation to download the alpha some weeks ago (no longer an issue). I was interested in streaming video sources and Boxee appeared to be a way to integrate multiple sources. At about this same time, NetFlix began streaming to the Mac (using Silverlight). I experimented with these tools on my Mac, but wanted to be able to display the video on a much larger screen.<\/p>\n

I somehow got the idea that the AppleTV was the hardware necessary to get the video to a HDTV and convinced Cindy it would make a great birthday present. I did have some of the details wrong – I assumed you could stream anything from your Mac to AppleTV if you made use of this strange hack that required to prepare a flash drive with some special software and boot to this flashdrive instead of the hard drive of the AppleTV. This may still be possible, but not with the software I used.<\/p>\n

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I do need to read a little more carefully. You don\\’t really stream everything from your Mac to the AppleTV and the flash drive is for installing software on the AppleTV (a little more risky than I had originally thought although there may be another technique out there that does not require modification of the AppleTV itself).<\/p>\n

The method for modifying the AppleTV makes use of code written by the Google people so I was willing to give it a go (Hack technique<\/a>). It took a little experimentation, but I was able to get it to work. The AppleTV works as originally intended and has the added features of Boxee. The unique benefit of Boxee as far as I can tell is mainly that it offers access to HULU<\/a>. NetFlix works on a regular computer, but not on the AppleTV (at least not yet).<\/p>\n

Fun project.<\/p>\n

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