Is your cable TV company asking too much from you? Free yourself from the cable bill, use proxy.
Hello, this is Fox, welcome to Apple TV happening episode one. All the show notes for everything that you are going to see today are going to be available at twosmartguys.com and today we are just going to go ahead and hack an Apple TV. We are going to make a little USB stick and load proxy and X box media center so that you are not restricted to just using quick time videos. You can view any kind of format and with Poxy you have the social media aspect where you can view all your television content, like from Hulu.com, CBS.com and YouTube, all this other different online websites and share what you are viewing with your friends, so let us go get started.
First step is to make a bootable USB stick, there is two different ways of doing this, you can use the HPE move this crater utility on PC or on Mac, on Mac or PC what I did is I just went ahead and downloaded the media center line CD and installed it to a USB drive and that makes it bootable. So that was a pretty easy way to do it and to clear out the X box media center on the PC. Once disk utility and make note of the disk ID, then launch your Apple TV, ATV USB crater. Download in our shown ups and select your drive and go ahead and create patch stick and this will install everything to essentially jail break your Apple TV and it gives you options to download the newest version of X box media center as well as proxy.
Insert the USB stick in your Apple TV, unplug it and plug it back in. It will boot up a little Linux patch it and after it does that, make sure to turn off the screen saver because this can have issues with inside of proxy and X box media center. You will see that there are two new menus beside the Apple TV. Go into the proxy, run the update and download the newest version of proxy. After it has been downloaded, you can go ahead and launch proxy to give it a shot. Now proxy is an alpha at the moment and you will have to go to the website and request a user name and password to try that.
Proxy is just another layer of the X box media center essentially and it can be everything that it can do with the addition of being able to track what videos you have viewed and share them with your friends. In addition, it also gives you the ability to watch online flash video websites such as Hulu, Comedy Central, and whole bunch of different ones. I cannot name them all at the top of my head and also play back your Div X 720b content that you download from wherever or create yourself. Check out Terminator, that is pretty cool 720b. You can also the same thing with X box media center if you do not want to bother with sharing your recommendations, what you watch and what not.
Although there is some pretty cool stuff in proxy, so I recommend that you try both out, it is a great upgrade and now you have the capability of viewing 720b content on your Apple TV. It looks beautiful, it is really to use interface. If you have an X box media center hacked up, this is a good upgrade. I have been using it for, you can also run this on a Mac Mini or a PC hooked up to your TV but this is by far the cheapest solution when I was looking into building one from components. So good luck, check out our website, twosmartguys.com for links to any of the files needed from this episode. Also our forms at 2smartguys.com/forms, there are tons of knowledgeable person in there that are more than willing to help you out with any questions you have. Subscribe to our feed if you like our shows and we will make more plus we have DVD’s available of some previous shows. If you donate $10.00 we will give you a copy, we will see you next time on 2smartguys pod cast internet show thing.
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