April 12, 2007 1:50 PM

Possibly.  It uses a Pentium M which is a very good processor.  Might be worth trying SlingPlayer.

I'm waiting to hack mine until these things get more refined and settled.  I really want a media player and not another Mac.  It just needs to be able to play MPEG-2 video files and internet audio and video streams.  Then I'll be happy.  Yeah, I could do that with OS X and it as a Mac, but it's much more elegant if there's actually a UI for it... 

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March 11, 2008 6:55 PM

Yes, I also am spending some time trying to get the Mac version of SlingPlayer to run on my AppleTV. Here is my current methodology:

I installed SlingPlayer on my PowerBook G4 and then moved over the SlingPlayer application and from ~/Library/Preferences the files "com.slingmedia.plist" and "com.slingmedia.slingplayer.plist" as well as the SlingMedia folder and it contents found there as well.

I installed the Applications Menu Upgrade from AwkwardTV.org and set it up to run SlingPlayer.

It boots up and starts to connect, when the dialogue box asking for my email information to register SlingPlayer comes up, which, of course, I cannot enter the information on my AppleTV. However, I do remember this dialogue box coming up the first time I ran SlingPlayer on my PowerBook.

Where do I find the appropriate file that contains my email address on my PowerBook, so I can move it over to the AppleTV and go to the next step? Thanks!

June 16, 2008 2:18 PM

Sounds like you made great progress. Anything new since this last post? I will be getting into this soon, so I will share anything I learn.

June 25, 2008 1:14 PM

It could also be related to the video format, similar to the iPhone incompatibility (if this post is accurate):
http://gizmodo.com/368785/new-windows-mobile-slingplayer-coming-soon-iphone-v...

"native realtime h264 encoding" may be needed for ATV to be happy. But then again, if you've got a hacked ATV with perian and/or flip4mac on your ATV, it should be okay.

Enough contemplating...I'm going down to get my ATV today and will begin my quest to get Slingplayer working on it. nitoTV update about application menu: http://nitosoft.com/blog/?p=41

September 1, 2008 5:03 AM

I am interested in installing Slingplayer on my Apple TV as well - did anyone have any luck with this?

Regards,

September 1, 2008 5:00 PM updated: September 1, 2008 5:02 PM

The closest I have come to getting it to work, is Slingplayer applications launches and the remote control appears on the left side and then back to an Apple Logo until I click the Menu button on the remote to get out of it.

I installed it on my AppleTV as follows:

Install nitoTV v0.4.8

From a Macintosh that has slingplayer installed and correctly logs into your slingbox, copy the following over to the AppleTV:


1. In the Frontrow folder, add an Applications folder and copy Slingplayer over to it.

2. From the ~/Library/Preferences folder on your Mac: copy to: Frontrow/Library/Preferences, the following:

A. the SlingMedia folder; and

B. the two files:

(1) com.slingmedia.plist; and

(2) com.slingmedia.slingplayer.plist.

Now from the nitoTV menu, go to the Applications menu and then launch Slingplayer...

Post your results...

September 22, 2008 11:20 PM updated: September 25, 2008 2:33 PM

Which fonts do you copy over and from where and to where? If you copy them to the OSBoot partion, how do you get past permissions? Thanks!

September 28, 2008 5:43 AM

crynz said:

The fonts was critical issue for me. Before copying fonts over, the application would run but nothing would display in the directory boxes (for choosing which sling to connect to).

Please crynz, could you give more details regarding fonts you have added ?
Thanks in advance.

October 7, 2008 11:13 PM

This would be great if someone could get slingplayer working on appletv, keep posting your results

October 16, 2008 2:14 PM updated: October 16, 2008 2:15 PM

MichaelLAX said:

Well, I connected a keyboard and mouse to my AppleTV and I was able to enter my email address into the Dialog Box from SlingPlayer and get past that hurdle...

Now, it connects and starts to stream and then quits back to the AppleTV UI...

 Any ideas?

I made some progress today ! Here's what I did :
- upddated NitoTV to version 0.5.7
- updated SlingPlayer to version 1.0.6 and copied the app to the AppleTV
- copied to AppleTV the 3 files : com.slingmedia.plist , com.slingmedia.setupassistant.plist , com.slingmedia.slingplayer.plist

Results:
- The app starts !
- It asks for my email adress (unfortunatly I don't have any USB keyboard and the "remote" app of the iPhone is not usable)
- I CAN SEE in the background the slingplayer window STREAMING PERFECTLY my slingbox located in France (I'm in Spain)

Downsides :
- no way to enter email or interact with the app (but I guess it could be fixed with a USB keyboard/mouse)
- the slingplayer's window uses only about 1/9th of my screen (don't know if it can be put Fullscreen or not)
- don't know how to quit without unplugging the AppleTV...

Can someone with a USB keyboard could try the various upgrade and tell us if it works ?