Video TS to appleTV

I am very close to pulling the trigger on purchasing the new appleTV, it sounds like the wife and kids could use this with no issues at all.
I have been looking through the archives and I have not been able to find a complete answer to this. I have several hundred movies, saved as Video TS folders. I am thinking about buying the new AppleTV as a way to watch these from the ext hard drives they are on. From what I can tell I need to have them in itunes, but I do not think itunes will play them in that format.
Here is what I want to do (based on what I know, feel free to offer a better way).
Encode the video TS files to a format that itunes will work with, what is the best way to do that and keep a file that is about the same size as the video TS folder and with no loss in picture quality. I do not want to pust the actual file in itunes I just want to point to it in itunes. I think this is possible from what I have read. I want to use itunes to create playlist and to allow for some east searching.
There may also be a need in the future to have a PC running WMC to access these converted files so I would like a format that was readable by WMC also.
I hope this makes sense, thank you in advance for your help.

Chenks wrote:
Frank Pike wrote:
If i store everything on an EXT hard drive(s) can that be formated so that windows can use them.
well as you know Macs don't natively support NTFS and windows doesn't natively support Mac file system. both support FAT32 but you then have file size limitations amongst other things.
you can get third party plugins that allow macs to write to NTFS or windows to write to Mac file system, but some are not always 100% reliable
Second question is will iTunes provide the "metadata" for the movies or is there other software needed for that.
no it won't. you'll need to do all that yourself.
Thanks you for the reply,I guess i will just have to format as FAT32 and try it for a while and see if there are issues.

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