Apple TV Hacks » DVDpedia http://www.appletvhacks.net Get more from your shiny box of joy Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:09:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Adding DVDs to AppleTV http://www.appletvhacks.net/2010/02/05/adding-dvds-to-appletv/ http://www.appletvhacks.net/2010/02/05/adding-dvds-to-appletv/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:28:15 +0000 tomek http://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=593 dvd to apple tv Adding DVDs to AppleTVA simple how-to for those who still haven’t figured out they can move their DVD collection do the atv. “Ripping your personal DVD’s for the AppleTV adds convenience. Selecting them from My Movies is so much simpler than finding and then loading up the DVD,” says Guy and we do agree. Guy recommends using DVD43 for ripping and HandBrake for converting to mp4, but remember there is a lot of other software that can do this job. For those who like to organize their movies with DVDpedia, PARA9 has just released DVDpedia FrontRow and AppleTV plugin 2.0.6 with AppleTV 3.0.1 support.

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Thanks to PARA9 it’s now possible to browse DVDpedia movie catalog on Apple TV. This small Montréal based team, specializing in web and Mac OS X development, released DVDpedia plugin for Front Row that now also supports Apple TV 2.4 (and only this version).

The plugin is offered as a free download.

To install it on Apple TV you need to enable at least SSH and AFP (if your device isn’t hacked yet) – find the instructions here. Then just copy the plugin from the Front Row library to Apple TV, make your DVDpedia database accessible from Apple TV, reboot the device and then make DVDpedia desktop application open the database at the new location.

The plugin enables to browse movies by Title, Director, Actor, Genre, Year, Country or Recently Added. You will also get a little info for each entry selected. And if you have a movie linked to the entry, you can start playing it right there in Front Row.

For more details and download links go to PARA9 website.

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