Connecting EHD to Apple TV to watch VLC videos

I have a Passport EHD that a friend of mine loaded up with VLC videos and I'm wondering if I can watch these videos on Apple TV if I hook up the EHD to it.

I also have a theory that if I hook my external HD up to my router and turn on home sharing that I can accress the videos on my iPad with the VLC player app and then use AirPlay to send the videos to ATV
Home sharing is not magically going to mount, index, and share an external hard drive. If you can setup a file share that the iOS devices can see then you can play the content via AirPlay, but AirPlay is extremely problematic and error prone. You would save your self a lot of headache converting them to something iTunes is able to play and using the native ATV menus to select your content.

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