Playing reference movies on Apple TV

Is it possible to get Apple TV to play reference movies created using Quicktime? I have quite a lot of reference movies which point to sections of larger mp4 files, and would like to be able to play them on my Apple TV. At present the files show up and play in iTunes fine, but don't show up on the Apple TV.
I would be grateful for some help with this
thanks
nick

OK. I read your other post and I think I get the idea, but for the avoidance of doubt I'm assuming you have something like a whole album as a single file and use reference movies so you can play individual tracks.
In respect of reference movies working or not, I know they don't, or at least I have not been able to make them work myself. As to why, a proper explanation is a little out of my depth but I suspect it is simply because they require quicktime to understand them.
Since I now know what you want to do, I don't believe symbolic links will do for you. I'm not sure whether symbolic links would work in the first place but I can't see why not, problem is in your case they would point to the whole file and not a part of it. Basically symbolic links are an absolute filepath and can be resolved by the file system rather than specific applications.
I'm afraid I can't see a solution to your requirement. Is it not rather unusual to store music in this way, is there a reason you do this, seems like a lot of hard work to me.

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