Showing photos on Apple TV, with a twist

Hi,
I am looking for a way to have my Apple TV access photos from an Aperture library, through a computer which does not have that Aperture library.
Here is my setup....
A MacBook Air which is turned off most of the time, but when I do use Aperture it's always on the MBA (with external screen)
A Mac mini with lots of storage attached to it, always on
An Apple TV (2nd gen) which accesses media files on the Mac mini
As said, I use Aperture on the MBA and the library is also stored on the MBA. I do make backups to a drive connected to the Mac mini. I mount it over the network, and use the built-in 'Vaults' feature to make a library backup.
What I would like is to somehow have my Apple TV be able to access the Aperture library and show photos on the tv. Is there any way it can use the 'Vault' copy? Any other tricks you can think of?
thanks,
Rob

Had a thought when I woke up this morning - I wondered if the Vault was simply a copy of the Library. So I looked into the package contents and turns out it looks like it's pretty much the same thing. If that were the case, then surely I could just mount the Vault as the library for Apple TV to get access to!? ... is what I thought.
To confirm, I used a command-line tool called 'diff' to compare. And I found each file to be different from the vault. Very strange, so I created a thread for that in the aperture forum - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4471883. Once I have the differences cleared up, I'll see if this approach will work. To be continued.

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