Apple TV Streaming from a Network Hard Drive?

[polo3400]

Is it Possible to Connect an External HD to an Apple Extreme Base Station, Then have the Apple TV 2G stream Content from that.

I Dont want to Keep having to leave my Mac on And itunes open, Just to Stream content.

Im Willing to do anything

 

[ZStation]

Yes, but you'll have to Jailbreak and install something like XBMC.

I run XBMC on my ATV2, and all my media is held on my Time Capsule and also on my Windows server.

 

[polo3400]

Yes, but you'll have to Jailbreak and install something like XBMC.

I run XBMC on my ATV2, and all my media is held on my Time Capsule and also on my Windows server.

Thank you very much

Can I stream Content from a Hard Drive connected via USB to the Airport Extreme Base Station?

 

[ZStation]

Yes, you can, but not with Apple's own software. You'll need some other software on the ATV2 to be able to do this.

 

[polo3400]

Yes, you can, but not with Apple's own software. You'll need some other software on the ATV2 to be able to do this.

I'm Guessing XMBC ?

 

[ZStation]

Yes.

Just be aware XBMC is still in beta on the ATV2, and some stuff is very much broken. The version I have doesn't play music, for example. I'm sure there's a newer version, but I haven't updated in months as I just use the ATV2 for videos.

 

[polo3400]

Okay, So Everything is ready, I just need to know how to connect the XBMC to My network drive, Any help?