Apple tv running movies from external HDD

I have airport extreme base station (wireless N) and I am connecting my external HDD to the USB port to it and by doing so I can access it from my apple macbook pro. I am considering buying apple tv. I want to know if i can run my movies from the external HDD through the wireless connection or they have to be uploaded to the hard disk on the apple tv (only limited to 40 GB or 60 GB)
Thx

You can either copy (sync) iTunes library material to the AppleTV hard drive or stream it (play it across the network on the fly).
For syncing (copying) or streaming (on the fly) it doesn't actually matter where on the network the media files lives BUT it must have been added to iTunes at some stage. By setting preferences appropriately you can have material for iTunes residing on different external or network drives, or all in the same library folder.
AppleTV uses iTunes to sync new content and also streamed content is sent VIA iTunes. The last point means that for streaming iTunes must be running, whereas it can be off for playing already synced content.
So, so long as iTunes is running it will be able to stream music or movies to AppleTV from the connected external drive.
In fact many of us use external drives to store all or most of our content.
So long as your network is up to the task streaming will playback as well as synced content, though navigatiuon within a file can be a tad slower.
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