Ok so I thought this would be real easy, but it turns out it is not. I have the following:
1. Apple TV connected to the TV
2. Airport Extreme
3. 2 external HDDs connected to the Extreme
Currently everything is working; however, setup-wise I am stuck. This is what I would like to do:
1. I want to move my iTunes library to one of the external drives and access the iTunes library from my computer in my account, and from my wife's account. We just one iTunes library shared. How??
2. I have many ripped DVDs but they are not MKV, AVI, MOV etc. I ripped them to the hard drive as files, such as AUDIO_TS, VIDEO_TS etc. Because I did not want to loose the menu functionality of the DVDs and extra features etc. I can play these directly from my HDD with VLC player just as if they were DVDs. Do I have to convert them to m4v files now so that I can add them to iTunes and Apple TV sees them?
3. Let's say I have converted all my movies to m4v files. How do I add them to the shared iTunes library (that I presumably created in #1), keep them in their original location but iTunes will see them so that I can access them via Apple TV?
Any help is appreciated,
Omer
1. Apple TV connected to the TV
2. Airport Extreme
3. 2 external HDDs connected to the Extreme
Currently everything is working; however, setup-wise I am stuck. This is what I would like to do:
1. I want to move my iTunes library to one of the external drives and access the iTunes library from my computer in my account, and from my wife's account. We just one iTunes library shared. How??
2. I have many ripped DVDs but they are not MKV, AVI, MOV etc. I ripped them to the hard drive as files, such as AUDIO_TS, VIDEO_TS etc. Because I did not want to loose the menu functionality of the DVDs and extra features etc. I can play these directly from my HDD with VLC player just as if they were DVDs. Do I have to convert them to m4v files now so that I can add them to iTunes and Apple TV sees them?
3. Let's say I have converted all my movies to m4v files. How do I add them to the shared iTunes library (that I presumably created in #1), keep them in their original location but iTunes will see them so that I can access them via Apple TV?
Any help is appreciated,
Omer