Apple TV and Time Capsule Compatibility

can i directly wire apple TV to time capsule to stream movies?

A Time Capsule.. (TC) has no media ability whatsoever.
And the ATV is purely a streamer.. it is not a media player.
You can store your media files on the TC.. and you can plug the ATV into the TC.. and it is completely useless.. The TC has no way to stream video to the ATV.. and the ATV has no way to find files on the TC. Neither work in the way a proper NAS with media extensions work.. or the way a media player works. Everything must be handled by iTunes.
So it is possible to store the movie on the TC.. pick it up on an ipad.. stream it back to the ATV via the TC. If this is what you mean. All smarts have to be in the software on the ipad to do it.. because the ATV and the TC have none.

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