The Working File

So after two people from team Boxee graced my comboxes in this post, I felt compelled to give it another shot. I bought a new 2GB Sandisk Cruzer Micro USB stick, ran the Patchstick creator, plugged it into the back of my Apple TV, and it worked. Further, I am glad that I had a chance to see the video that Dave linked to in his comment, because after you boot up the ATV, the patchstick runs, scrolling a lot of text that just ends, without any message that says, in effect, “You are finished.” Because I saw his video, I knew that the process had ended properly, so I removed the USB, and rebooted the ATV again.
Now I’m trying to figure out whether I will be able to adjust any settings either in the Boxee software or on the ATV to make internet sources such as Hulu run smoothly. Right now, they run with a very choppy video, and sometimes they just freeze.
It appears that this is partly due to the underpowered nature of the ATV, and due to the fact that Hulu is not designed to deliver content to anything but a regular computer screen. Some people have reported success by lowering the video output from 1080p to 720 or even lower. I’ll check the forums for more tips. Plus, as I’ve noted, Boxee is still in alpha and an update might help this issue.