Streaming from FreeNAS to AppleTV

[CU55TM Disco]

My old and faithful XBox (original xbox) is finally starting to give up the ghost, the network port has been blown out of it, its had numerous Optical drives, its bringing up a memory block error, and the other day it failed to boot at all.

I had it modded way back when, with a 120G HDD and XBMC and was a pretty good Media Center.

I am thinking of replacing it with an Apple TV and am wondering IF it will be able to stream movies from my HP Micro Server which is Running FreeNAS 7.

FreeNAS has a DLNA/UPnP doodad in it, but It doesnt want to work with my Panasonic LCD. Im hoping it will work with the Apply TV, but Im not terribly sure how appleTV's work?
Do they need the movies and junk to be "IN" itunes (which is on a seperate Desktop) or will they pickup media from other places?


Would I be better converting the Microserver into a NAS/HTPC?
Im a little out of touch with this sorta bizz these days.


Cheers All.

Robert.

[dmdigital]

Unless you Jailbreak the Apple TV it doesn't support DLNA or UPnP. The Apple TV is very specifically iTunes centric :(

I had trouble streaming DLNA to my Denon BDP and Sony LCD and I found Serviio DLNA server (Serviio media server (http://www.serviio.org)) worked the best. In the end though I found the simplest method was to translate to m4v and load to iTunes and stream to Apple TV.

[CU55TM Disco]

Unless you Jailbreak the Apple TV it doesn't support DLNA or UPnP. The Apple TV is very specifically iTunes centric :(

I had trouble streaming DLNA to my Denon BDP and Sony LCD and I found Serviio DLNA server (Serviio media server (http://www.serviio.org)) worked the best. In the end though I found the simplest method was to translate to m4v and load to iTunes and stream to Apple TV.


I think Serviio is what freeNAS uses.

Do you have your movies etc on an external drive/device, or all on your main PC where iTunes is installed?

In my case, if I were to convert to M4v and jam them in Itunes, does the file go from the NAS, to the PC (which itunes is on) and then off to the AppTV?
There is no way of streaming stright from the NAS to the AppTV?

Surely there is a simpler way!!!:eek::D

[simonmelb]

If you research on the appletvhacks.net website you'll see that modding an Appletv 2 to do what you want is fairly straightforward. I've seen a modded Appletv in action and they're quite slick and will work directly with Freenas. But unhacked, no unfortunately unless via a Mac running ITunes.

[dmdigital]

I think Serviio is what freeNAS uses.

Do you have your movies etc on an external drive/device, or all on your main PC where iTunes is installed?

In my case, if I were to convert to M4v and jam them in Itunes, does the file go from the NAS, to the PC (which itunes is on) and then off to the AppTV?
There is no way of streaming stright from the NAS to the AppTV?

Surely there is a simpler way!!!:eek::D
NAS streaming of "iTunes" compatible format will only work with music not video. So the only option is to host the iTunes library on your NAS and stream via the PC/Mac's iTunes to the ATV. This is how I was doing things but now I keep the movies/video on my NAS and only load to iTunes if needed as I no longer have a desktop. I store my iTunes library on my MacBook Pro.