New to Apple TV some help?

[Medic278]

So I went to my local Apple store with the intention of buying a case for my MacBook Pro and instead walked out with Apple TV. So I have set it up and go my netflix account all setup and have it linked up with my iTunes. So my real question is if I put a DVD in my computer can I stream it to my Apple TV? Any other hints or things like that from users would be helpful too.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

A simple www search via MetaCrawler shows, that you have to transcode the video DVD to a format Apple TV understands.

How to backup/copy/rip video DVDs to your HDD and transcode them to another format in Mac OS X.

How-To: Automating DVD & Blu-Ray (Backup, Encoding & Tagging) for Mac OS X 10.6​

 

[maturola]

So I went to my local Apple store with the intention of buying a case for my MacBook Pro and instead walked out with Apple TV. So I have set it up and go my netflix account all setup and have it linked up with my iTunes. So my real question is if I put a DVD in my computer can I stream it to my Apple TV? Any other hints or things like that from users would be helpful too.

You can't used the MBP as a remote drive no, but if you backup the DVD to the computer you can transcode it the Apple tv as the previous poster mentioned

 

[Medic278]

Thanks for all the help guys I really appreciate it!