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One way to watch videos from external drives on AppleTV
Authored by: mozart111 on Mon, Apr 30 2007 at 11:08AM PDT

Bummer. This doesn't work with a movie stored on a USB drive connected to the Airport N. I'll create the alias on my MacBook Pro desktop. It is an alias too. Wth the arrow. If I then drag that alias into iTunes, the whole movie is copied back to iTunes. If I create an alias with the Apple & Option key and directly drag that onto iTunes bypassing the desktop, the same thing happens. The movie is copied.

I guess this hint will only work on an external drive directly attached to the computer.