Can I stream movies to my tv using from time capsule storage?

I'm thinking about trying to use the time capsule as my own personal cloud at home.  That way I can stream music and movies to my tv.  Will this work and how do you set it up?

No it won't work.. Not in a purely apple environment.
You need a player.. the TC is not a player.. it is a dumb as a board hard disk in a router.
The Apple TV is a strange beast but it is so aligned to iTunes.. that it cannot work as a straight media player.
People including me.. JB them (ie modify the OS to make it play files).. but the new ATV 3 is proving resistant.. so you can only hack the v1 and v2.. hence the v2 commands huge prices second hand.. cf a brand new v3.. Apple shot themselves in the foot on this.
But you can play the content using a real media player.. eg WDTV live..
Or you can use an ipad or something else to play (stream the content) to the ATV.

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