Time Capsule Streaming

Is there a way to stream movies from Time Capsule to Apple TV? The movies are taking up too much room on my hard drive and causing start up file issues.
Any help would be greatly appreciated... thank you in advance.

My opinion, based on experience with this issue, would be that you will do much better to add an external hard drive and attach it directly to your computer for your media storage. The Time Capsule is really for backups of your files, not for day to day use.
If you add the external drive, Time Machine will backup those files as well so you will always have a backup for your computer and your media drive.
If you do move your movies to the Time Capsule, where will you keep your backups for those movies? All drives fail. My advice would be to never keep originals and backups on the same drive.

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