I currently have a mac mini which hosts all of my music and videos using 1 TB drive. I also use an apple tv to stream the videos to a tv in the other room.
I would really like to just switch the apple tv over to a second mac mini (for many of the reasons mentioned in this post). However, I'm unsure how well this would work. For example, the apple tv is great at streaming movies, but when I use my laptop to look at the shared media library from the first mac mini, the view is horrible. As one example, I can't look at my movies or tv shows individually (everything is shown together: music, tv shows, movies, podcasts). Is there an easy way around this? I basically want my second mac mini to be an apple tv, except capable of boxee, netflix, and the internet... Someone help!
I would really like to just switch the apple tv over to a second mac mini (for many of the reasons mentioned in this post). However, I'm unsure how well this would work. For example, the apple tv is great at streaming movies, but when I use my laptop to look at the shared media library from the first mac mini, the view is horrible. As one example, I can't look at my movies or tv shows individually (everything is shown together: music, tv shows, movies, podcasts). Is there an easy way around this? I basically want my second mac mini to be an apple tv, except capable of boxee, netflix, and the internet... Someone help!