Adding Plex to non Jailbroken Apple TVs

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davidcole

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#119587 6-Jun-2013 20:24

Some bright sparks have come up with a way of adding a plex client to an non jail broken Apple TVs.

It uses a DNS hack on the movie trailers - which may require the ATV to think it's on a US account.

You put some some software on a machine with python and pint the apple tv's DNS to that machine. The machine intercepts a call to trailers.apple.com and forwards it off you your autodetected plex server.

Then it plays the video.

Most impressive.

http://elan.plexapp.com/2013/06/04/introducing-plexconnect-an-appletv-client-which-thinks-different/

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#831837 6-Jun-2013 20:48

I use Beamer to stream all MKV movies as I always have at least one Mac running at home

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#831978 7-Jun-2013 08:46

This was being discussed over here: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=34&topicid=119380

It's an interesting piece of software regardless. I almost regret swapping my Apple TV3 for an older TV2 that I have since Jailbroken to negate the need for this.