Tutorial Load Boxee on Apple TV
Apple TV originally was designed to be an extension of your iTunes, it can only play video and music files that are compatible with iTunes or bought through the iTunes Store, but recently patch essentially "Jailbreaks" the TV set-top box from such restrictions by installing an open-source media center called Boxee.
Currently in limited, invite-only alpha testing, the patch automatically installs itself onto a thumb drive and adds a Boxee button to the main menu of Apple TV. Clicking on Boxee brings you to an interface allowing you to view about 30 types of DRM-free multimedia (e.g., DIVX, AVI, MKV, ISO and BIN) from any computer connected to your network; you can even play multimedia through internet streams (e.g. YouTube, podcast videos). TooSmartGuys posted a tutorial video for your review. The instructions can be found in this WiKi
oh well another useless manual for Mac only. I am not buying Mac just to hack Apple TV. Although he mentions something HP disk utility but does not know what more to say.
There is a version ATVUSB
http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/
to create the USB bootable for Windows.
This will only copy files. You still need mac to format USB stick so it boots on Apple tv. BTW Tom M. from cnet made same tutorial last year.
“oh well another useless manual for Mac only. I am not buying Mac just to hack Apple TV. Although he mentions something HP disk utility but does not know what more to say.”
Wow…welcome to 20+ years of us Mac folks’ lives, only to have PC folks sneer and jeer at us.
Honestly, I don’t think anyone cares that you can’t get it to work on your PC. Use another set top box. I hear Western Digital makes one.