Is there an Apple TV app that lets you locally store videos/photos to watch offline?

[KingKongGotNoBalls]

I'm talking about an app that is like the "Files app" on iOS, or anything alike. I just have some videos that are on my MacBook that I would like to have stored on my Apple TV to watch them offline without any internet connection at all. I have the 4th Generation Apple TV. Is this possible?

If not, I was thinking of maybe buying the 3rd generation Apple TV, could it be easier to locally store files there? How could that work as well?

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Nope. First generation AppleTV had the fantastic ability to sync video to the device. With some third party hardware hacking, I believe as much as 2TB could be available on that thing- no internet or Mac or iDevice required.

And then Apple Inc. decided to "improve" on that by subtraction of that great feature.

If you want offline video storage, load up a portable hard drive or USB stick with your videos and then plug that into a TV with a USB port and use it in place of AppleTV.

OR, sync your videos to an iPhone or iPad and then you can either "throw" (via Airplay) that video to an AppleTV or connect the iDevice directly to a TV and watch from it. Some TVs have Airplay built in too.

You can also get yourself a device to direct connect that MacBook to a TV to watch anything stored on it. If it's a MBpro with an HDMI port, all you need is an HDMI cable. If it lacks HDMI, there are lots of little hubs that often include an HDMI port.

 

[pdmpolishing]

Nope. First generation AppleTV had the fantastic ability to sync video to the device. With some third party hardware hacking, I believe as much as 2TB could be available on that thing- no internet or Mac or iDevice required.

And then Apple Inc. decided to "improve" on that by subtraction of that great feature.

If you want offline video storage, load up a portable hard drive or USB stick with your videos and then plug that into a TV with a USB port and use it in place of AppleTV.

OR, sync your videos to an iPhone or iPad and then you can either "throw" (via Airplay) that video to an AppleTV or connect the iDevice directly to a TV and watch from it. Some TVs have Airplay built in too.

You can also get yourself a device to direct connect that MacBook to a TV to watch anything stored on it. If it's a MBpro with an HDMI port, all you need is an HDMI cable. If it lacks HDMI, there are lots of little hubs that often include an HDMI port.

Totally agree the first gen Apple TV was a fantastic product for loading your own content onto the divice and being able to use it without a Mac or internet connection.
But Apple in it's wisdom took this feature away from us in future updates to the ATV, sometime I think Apple just don't listen to what it's customers want.

 

[firewire9000]

You can with VLC but tvOS will randomly delete the files if it decides that there isn’t enough storage for other things.

 

[pdmpolishing]

You can with VLC but tvOS will randomly delete the files if it decides that there isn’t enough storage for other things.

How?

 

[firewire9000]

How?

You open the VLC app on your Apple TV and then with a computer or iPad or whatever you move the files from there to the Apple TV through LAN. It’s pretty easy just follow the steps.