Stream from Time Capsule to Apple TV without having the Mac on.

Is it possible to move my movie content to the Time Capsule and stream to Apple TV without the Mac being on?

Only if the TC is jailbreaked.. otherwise it is dependent on itunes.. and TC is a dumb hard drive without media server or smarts of any kind.
You can buy a WD live or lots of other media players.. but Apple locked ATV to the itunes environment.. to ensure you pay.

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Slow Streaming From Time Capsule to Apple TV

Hi,
I have several movies and tv programmes stored on my Time Capsule..... When I stream from the time capsule to Apple TV it is very slow and is constantly buffering. How can I get around this as at present the films / programmes are un-watchable.
Thanks
mbchunky

Thanks for describing your current network configuration for streaming.
In your current setup, QuickTime will first have to access the media files from the TC over a wireless connection. From there it will send the stream back to the TC. The TC will then send the stream to the Apple TV. As you can see there are a number of potential Wi-Fi interference issues along this overall path. Interference is not just from other Wi-Fi operating nearby, but also includes microwave ovens, portable phones, baby monitors, etc. Very importantly, it also includes the type of building material used along the path the wireless signal must travel through.
I would suggest that you do a bit of testing to determine what exactly the data throughput you are getting. Once you understand those values, we should be able to determine where the bottlenecks are and try to eliminate them if possible.
Please take a look at the following AirPort User Tip for details on taking throughput measurements.

Streaming movies from Time Capsule to Apple TV without opened iTunes Library

Hello !
It is possible to streaming movies from my Time Capsule without using Mac or iPhone like streaming device
For example ( I am using Time Capsule for movies Libary, Apple TV for streaming movies, but when i have MacBook Pro off, my iTunes Libary is off and i can't streamimg my movies directly)
It is possible streaming Movies on my Apple TV without opened iTunes on my Mac ? I mean if it is possible streaming directly from TC to Apple TV, when Libary it on TC.
Thank you for your answears.

Hi,
you can stream from the Time Capsule, but must always have a player in the middle, either an iOS device or a mac compatible with video airplay.
If you want to use an iOS device, you can get the app FileBrowser. This allows your device to stream videos from the timecapsule, play them, and play on the AppleTV.
As erfurtivo said, O!play works perfectly with the TimeCapsule, if you don't want more devices in-between.
Hope this helped

Streaming from Time Capsule to Apple TV

I'm considering to purchase the Time Capsule. My purpose is to have a wireless HD with my complete iTunes Library on it and tstreming music and video to ATV.
Does anyone have exprerience with this set up?

I am assuming that you currently have the existing model of the Apple TV and not the latest just announced by Apple ... correct?
If so, you are already aware that the Apple TV can either "duplicate" your iTunes Library or can accept streams from an iTunes host. If your goal is to use the new Time Capsule (TC) as the location of the iTunes Library, this should work, but bandwidth performance will be critical, especially for streaming HD video.
To stream, you will need to take into consideration the path that the stream will be required to take to get to the Apple TV. For HD video, you will want this path to be Gigabit Ethernet wherever possible ... so ideally (but not necessarily practically) that would mean that the iTunes host and the Apple TV would need to be connected to the TC by Ethernet. That is because, the iTunes host must first contact the TC to access its iTunes Library. The TC will stream the data to the iTunes host and, in turn, the host will stream it back to the TC, and finally, the TC will stream it to the Apple TV. The path taken, of course, will change depending on the connection types (wired or wireless) ... and if you have configured the Apple TV as an iTunes speaker.
(ref: Gigaom: Using Time Capsule as a Media Drive)

Streaming from time capsule to Apple tv using iPad

Playing movies I understand you do with iTunes over game computer or PC or iMac.
I have a Time Capsule 2T wired to router.
No wires to my TV where I have a Apple TV.
On the second floor in the house I have a PC.
I also have a iPad.
Is it possible to place a movie on my TC and play this using the iPad and apple TV ?
Thanks in advance I'm not a computer expert.

I also am not a computer expert. I have a similar setup to you except I have a macbook instead of pc.
I downloaded an app called file browser on my ipad from the app store. it cost about $5-6 australian. In the app store it has a picture of a blue folder with FB written on it.
It is pretty easy to use.
Once opened, go into locations and click on the + button then put in the name of your time capsule. follow from there. I am not associated with the company, but I have been using it for a couple of months.
It has meant that I don't have to put the tv shows or movies on my macbook anymore, which was using up so much of my memory. Now everything is on my time capsule and i can play it on my ipad or through my ipad with airplay, play it on my apple tv. And I don't have to have my computer on to use it.
I have been stuck at home recently and have used it almost constantly. I'm sure there are other apps out there that can do the same this is just the one I found and it works.
I made files on my time capsule named - movies, tv, and aperture (for my photos). For tv shows I then made sub folders with the names of shows and then a further sub folder with seasons for each show. Mainly, because I can be a bit pedantic about filing but it also just makes it easier to find things.
This all comes up on the app when using it.
So short answer is yes you can place a movie on your TC and play using the ipad and apple tv.

How can I copy programs (iWorks) and files from Time Capsule to my HD manually? The problem is that the migration assistant does not recognize my backup file and the user on the TC. (If I open the TC on finder, it it there though)

How can I copy programs (iWorks) and files from Time Capsule to my HD manually? The problem is that the migration assistant does not recognize my backup file and the user on the TC. (If I open the TC on finder, it it there though)

How can I copy programs (iWorks) and files from Time Capsule to my HD manually? The problem is that the migration assistant does not recognize my backup file and the user on the TC. (If I open the TC on finder, it it there though)

Streaming music from Time Capsule to Apple TV

I own an Apple TV and just bought a Time Capsule, I was wondering whether i could stream music from my Time Capsule to my Apple TV without having any computer/mac turned on, is this possible?

no

Stream from time capsule to applte tv via ipad air

hi,
im pretty new with apple...i used android before but im thinking about a change....
i want to stream music and movies/photos from a time capsule to tv and an av receiver via an ipad air.
is that possible? do i need a special app?
if so, how do i connect the apple tv to tv and av receiver?
use a hdmi switch or
hdmi to tv and audio optical to av receiver?
thanks!
jan

You are better asking this is the ATV section..
The TC is useless.. it is a dumb storage of files.. no media servers whatsoever.
Nor can you use itunes libraries. You must have itunes running for the ATV to stream content.
You will need therefore to have files in some format that the ipad can read and use airplay to the ATV.
how do i connect the apple tv to tv and av receiver?
use a hdmi switch or
hdmi to tv and audio optical to av receiver?
It is impossible to know without info on the actual av receiver capability.. but modern hdmi switching is built into the AV receiver.. you should not need another switch and you should be able to handle both sound and video over hdmi.. but if not that is simple to fix with optical.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5209
http://www.apple.com/au/airplay/
Notice in all this setup.. the TC is completely lacking.. it has no role in this. Anything you do without iTunes you do on your own as far as Apple is concerned.. and to play iTunes you need a computer running.. sorry but that is the result of copyright protection.
If you do not want to use itunes.. then buy a simple media player.. eg WD Live TV.. it can play content directly from Time Capsule.. because the WD is a proper player.

Streaming from Time Machine to Apple TV

Hi Chaps,
I am in a quandary, I have saved all my movies on to my time machine and currently streaming my movies to my Imac then using an HDMI cable to watch the films on my main Tv. I am thinking of buying an apple TV and want to know if I can stream my films directly to my apple Tv without having to save them to either my Apple TV or in my main Itunes file.
I have created Alias files in my computer from the Time Machine so I can watch through Front Row, but wonder if I can do the same in itunes, so I don't lose memory space. and is that the best option for me to watch the films or is there perhaps a wireless HDMI that would work better?
Any help would be great
Cheers

You do not have to save movies to Apple TV in order to watch movies on Apple TV. ATV gives you two options to watch movies. One is to copy (sync) the movies from your computer to ATV. This way, you don't even need an internet connection or be connected to your computer to watch. So, you could copy (sync) a bunch of movies to ATV, unplug ATV, take it to your cottage and watch movies there.
The other way to watch movies on ATV is to stream them. This option streams your movies in real time from your computer to ATV.
However, in BOTH cases, the movies you want to watch MUST be in iTunes. The only way to stream movies is from iTunes to ATV. If you want to copy (sync) movies to ATV, that too must be done via iTunes. Sync is a better word than copy because if you erase a movie in iTunes that was synced to ATV, iTunes will also erase the movie from ATV. Hence the word 'sync'.
As for how to actually get movies into iTunes, there are plenty of other discussions on that.

Cannot stream from time capsule attached disk to Apple TV

Hi,
I have my movies and TV Shows on a disk connected to my Time Capsule. All these videos are present in iTunes and when I want to watch them on my Mac, everything works great. The problem is when I try to watch them from AppleTV (2nd generation). Then, I get the error "There was a problem loading this content, please try again later".
I assume the problem is caused by either one of the two issues:
1) The disk spins down after a while when not in use and/or
2) The disk is not mounted in Finder all the time
When I play the video in iTunes, the disk spins up, is automatically mounted in Finder, and playback starts.
When I play the video in AppleTV, nothing happens and the error occurs.
But when I first play any videos in iTunes, and then play a video on AppleTV, it works.
So, is this a bug in Apple TV / iTunes Home Sharing? Should the video not get mounted automatically as well?
What's the workaround? Force the video to be mounted all the time? How do I do this? There's not such option in Airport Utilities.
Thanks!

See p.4 here - http://www.pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html - and see if the Great Pondoni can help.
He's sure helped others in the past...
Clinton

Streaming from time capsule.

My Apple TV 2 connected directly to my 4th generation Time Capsule and file sharing is enabled. My iMac is also directly connected to this router/TC and all of my movies reside on it's internal disk. When my iMac is off and/or in
sleep mode and I try to view a movie from the TC's disk the system pauses and buffers every 10-30 seconds. When my iMac is on it seems to work fine and it appears there is no need for buffering. Anyone have any idea why this would be happenig and is there a way to fix it?

Warning I am guessing wildly.. I have ATV1 running over network and it works very well. Running Crystalbuntu, with the crystal card.
The ATV has 8GB of NAND memory used as disk storage space.. so it is collecting files in chunks.. since using ethernet is so fast the download of one chunk is fast enough that the disk in the TC maybe has time to spin down. What I don't know is how much of the memory is applied to cache of the stream. (You are not really streaming of course.. you are reading a file across a network.. the only streaming that is happening is the video to the TV). Can you force the ATV to cache the whole movie before it starts playing?
What about trying wireless?
Did you put your hand on the TC and just feel if the disk is actually spinning up and down.. as stated.. I am guessing ... wildly.
Can you also stick a laptop or something onto the same ethernet as the ATV is connected and test the performance of the network at that point.. maybe the issue is poor network cable, and in fact it is struggling for speed.

Restored system from Time Capsule but now lost access to the backup files

Last week, my drive flaked out and I had to restore my system from my Time Capsule. Now everything is back to normal except that I've noticed that upon trying to auto backup my Mac Pro, it says the disk is full. When I use Time Machine to access my old files, it appears I no longer have access to anything I had previous to restoring my system from my Time Capsule. I believe the link to the old backup file is broken and it's trying to create a new full backup file, in addition to keeping the old file.
Is this normal behaviour after a full restore from a Time Capsule or can I still somehow relink my computer to the file from which it was restored, and still have access to my backup files?

kencanuck wrote:
Last week, my drive flaked out and I had to restore my system from my Time Capsule. Now everything is back to normal except that I've noticed that upon trying to auto backup my Mac Pro, it says the disk is full.
Yes; everything you restored is treated as changed and will be backed-up again: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338 Time Machine most likely deleted all but the last backup, trying to make room for the new one.
When I use Time Machine to access my old files, it appears I no longer have access to anything I had previous to restoring my system from my Time Capsule.
Exactly how did you restore? Did you restore your entire system, starting with your Snow Leopard Install disc?
If you didn't, it's possible the account you're using is not recognized as the same one on your backups.
Can you see the last backup? If not, see #E2 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
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how to directly stream movies from time capsule to apple tv without using pc and iTunes

i want them to be stored on the time capsule
you could use the tips/instructions here to do what you want.

Stream from Time Capsule to Apple TV without having the Mac on.

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