AppleTV is now shipping

Kevin Callahan kcall at mac.com
Tue Mar 20 20:16:09 PDT 2007


On Mar 20, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:

>
> On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:59 AM, LuKreme wrote:
>
>> I have quite literally hundreds of gigabytes of divx files that I  
>> had no interest in reconverting into iTunes compatible files, much  
>> less importing into iTunes' database, not to mention that I don't  
>> have a drive large enough to hold everything in one place.
>>
>> I will be interested in what sorts of hacks there are to get the  
>> ðTV to play generic dixx, ogg, or other 'non-Itunes' formats.
>
> I know very little about Apple TV, but working with the assumption  
> that it uses existing Mac OS X frameworks, it's hard to see a  
> situation where divx files would play if Mac OS X itself does not  
> play them out of the box.
>
> It sounds like what you want is to install third-party software on  
> the device?
>
>    - Scott

more talk on AppleTV:
<http://www.macworld.com/2007/03/firstlooks/hdtv/index.php? 
lsrc=mwrss#glossary>

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