JoshFink

I was hoping someone could help me out here. I've been reading about Apple TV and it's really intrigued me. I've been using a Mini as my HTPC for a while now and have about 600 DVD's that I've ripped to a machine. The DVD's are in standard DVD format inside of a VIDEO_TS directory and not as MP4.

Is it possible at all to stream these to an ATV? If so, can you point me in the right direction.

I'd like to go ahead and order my ATV today if I can get some answers.

Thanks

Josh

ejsjrnc

Without enabling ssh, afp and installing other plugins/front row appliances (Sapphire or NitoTV come to mind), there isn't any way to play video_ts folders on an appletv. It was designed to sync or stream itunes content from a pc to a set top box to output to a TV. I've got mine modded using awkwardtv.org's beginners guide and have enabled usb storage (250GB appletv baby!).

I've not yet tried to copy any ripped DVD's to it, but i will eventually. I'm currently using the internal hd for putting divx/xvid movies on that I don't want to bother converting to mp4 to watch and the external hd to sync my music/tv shows/movies to from iTunes. I've got a rather large collection of TV shows and movies in mp4 format already so an AppleTV was a no brainer for me. Since you've already got a Mini working as a HTPC, there might not be a need for you to get an AppleTV, or at least wait until Macworld to see if the rumors of Bluray, rentals, etc are going to be true.