Boxee on my Apple TV
I finally decided to try out Boxee on my Apple TV and I will have to say I am very pleased. What is nice is how easy it was to get it installed. I didn’t have to take apart my Apple TV to get the software on there I just had to load the software with the patchstick then restart.
First thing I did updated my Apple TV to the latest update which was 2.3. Then I created the patchstick on my 2gb Samsung flash drive (I picked that up when I was in Korea last year). I did find a forum of a list of flash drives to use or not use. They say you should use better quality flash drives. I am not really sure why I guess maybe because the Apple TV boots off of the flash drive and the i/o reads need to have fast response times? Regardless many folks in the forum said that they were able to get the patchstick to work on the usb drives that were on the fail list so not sure what to really believe. Regardless mine worked fine.
Here is a video that shows you how to create a patchstick.
I used atvusb-creator-1.0.b10 to create my patchstick. After that was complete I followed the instructions from this video to get it on my Apple TV.
So after I let my Apple TV boot off of my patchstick then restarted I went and installed the latest code from Boxee. The one thing that wasn’t mentioned in the last video was that if you are running on Apple TV 2.3 you need to install the Launcher 2.3 software. You will see that on the same screen when you go and install Boxee. After I did that it all worked just fine. There are the usual bugs were if you try and quit Boxee my Apple TV might freeze or something so I just restarted it. Usual problems you might see during an alpha software base. Hulu streams seemed a little choppy but CBS stream was great. I haven’t had a chance to try anything else yet. ABC streams are on the Mac OSX version of Boxee and will be on the Apple TV version soon.
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