Re: Can Apple TV Pull Content From a NAS

2013-05-26 Thread Noel Romey
If you want to jail break your Apple TV, one can install ATV Flash Black from Firecord www.firecore.com on your Apple TV. From there, you can use shares with Samba (windoww) AFP (Apple) or Linux (NFS). The media player has a library which is searchable provided shares are set up. Your other alte

RE: Can Apple TV Pull Content From a NAS

2013-05-26 Thread Kliphton
andsharri> kliphandsharrie From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:59 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Can Apple TV Pull Content From a NAS Hmmm, I see what you're doing here. The M

Re: Can Apple TV Pull Content From a NAS

2013-05-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hmmm, I see what you're doing here. The Mac is providing the HomeShare for the Apple Tv so it works. I believe, though, that if the Mac was turned off or did not have iTunes running, this configuration may not work. I'm not 100% positive on this one (probably only 98%), so I can be corrected

Re: Can Apple TV Pull Content From a NAS

2013-05-26 Thread Kliphton A M
This is possible. I use a western digital 8TB NAS, and it has an iTunes server on it. I store my iTunes library there, and point my iTunes from my Mac to this folder. And I have no issues. My appleTV pulls and streams the media content from there just fine. I turn on home sharing, and use t

Re: Can Apple TV Pull Content From a NAS

2013-05-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I believe that the Apple TV requires Home Sharing to be able to pull things from the local network. Music and other media that is purchased through Apple and thus stored in iCloud can also be streamed to the Apple TV but I'm pretty sure that regular sharing is not compatible due to the met

Can Apple TV Pull Content From a NAS

2013-05-26 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Hi All, Does anyone know, can an Apple TV pull content from a NAS on a local network? Either by providing the Apple TV in some manner the IP address, folder share and user credentials of the share so that it can scan the folder, or, by enabling iTunes Server which is a feature of my NAS. iTune