We had a user ask us how to get joost on the apple tv but unfortunatly, we don’t have a joost account and when i used it before i had barrowed a friends. However I found this guide on the AwkwardTV Wiki, which is a great place to check for a apple tv guide. If you don’t find what you want on their site tell us and we will write one up!

Prerequisites

• Mac OS X 10.4
• Joost Account and Joost running and setup on an Intel mac
• Applications Menu Plugin V1.1 for Apple TV (optional)

Setting Up

• Run FireFox on AppleTV browse to YouTube.com, and try to watch a video. You will be prompted to download the flash player, do so watch a video to ensure that the Flash player runs properly.

• Copy the contents from /Library/Fonts and ~/Library/Fonts to corresponding locations in ATV. Joost uses some fonts not present on AppleTV. Probably not all Fonts are required - {Todo: isolate the fonts required by Joost}
• Copy Joost.app from your mac’s /Application folder to /Users/frontrow/Applications directory, you may have to create the Applications directory. Joost does not like being run from an readonly file system so it needs to be in an writable area.

• Copy com.joost.client.mac.plist & com.joost.launcher.mac.plist files from ~/Library//Preferences directory on your intel mac to /Users/frontrow/Library/Preferences/ on ATV.

• Copy settings.sol from ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/ to /Users/frontrow/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/

• Copy #www.joost.com folder from ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/ to /Users/frontrow/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/

• Look for www.joost.com folder in ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/XXXXXXX/ folder, XXXXXX will be unique to your machine and is a alphanumeric with numbers and captial letters. Find a similar folder in AppleTV in /Users/frontrow/Library/Prefrences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/XXXX. ***Please Note that the XXXXXXX values will be different between your mac and AppleTV. Also note that the # character in the filename will need to be escpaed as \# if you use command line to copy.

Running Joost

You can either run Joost using the command line after killing the Finder. See the Replace_Finder and Watchdog sections in the How-to section or you can use the V1.1 version of the Application Launcher Plugin. {*** Note: v1.1 is not released yet - setup instructions will be released when it is released]. The command line to run Joost is: /Users/frontrow/Applications/Joost.app/Contents/Resources/Joost.app/Contents/MacOS/xulrunner

Stopping Joost

Unfortunately Joost does not support an exit function on the Apple Remote, so you need to kill Joost using ssh or if you are using the Application Launcher, then you should try to crash Joost. Crashing Joost is fairly easy, you can do this by trying to launch videos and when one video is being loaded try to load other videos and send it lots of button presses of all sorts from the remote. This is very ugly but atleast I don’t have to be near a computer to stop Joost. Once Joost has exited and if you used the Applications Plugin, Finder should re-start in a few seconds.

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