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Play video on your AppleTV from your shared folders

Filed under: hacks, life, technology — Tags: — admin @ 10:43; October 21, 2008

So you have used the patchstick

What now? You have tons of video on your other harddrive? Yes, you can play the videos you have on your PC harddrive, your Airport basestation or like me – on your MyBook World Network harddrive (or any other NAS with samba support)

I installed Sharity Light and created this wiki entry:

Mount Sharity Light (shlight) shares from frontrow

If you have installed Sharity Light from the instructions above, you can use application launcher to set up your mounts. Install application launcher from the awkwardTV plugins installer.

create the file /Users/frontrow/mount.sh with this content:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/shlight //<ip to your share>/<shared folder> /Users/frontrow/Movies/shared -U username -P password

chmod +x /Users/frontrow/mount.sh

create a folder named shared in /Users/frontrow/Movies/ with the command

mkdir /Users/frontrow/Movies/shared

create this Applist.plist in frontrow/Documents/
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>
<plist version=”1.0″>
<dict>
<key>Applications</key>
<dict>
<key>0</key>
<dict>
<key>args</key>
<string>/Users/frontrow/mount.sh</string>
<key>remotewatcher</key>
<false/>
<key>fireandforget</key>
<false/>
<key>menu</key>
<string>Mounter</string>
<key>killfinder</key>
<true/>
<key>path</key>
<string>/bin/sh</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Under your application menu you will now find an item called Mounter – click that, and the system will now mount your share in the path /Users/frontrow/Movies/shared. (Mounting will take some seconds, but when frontrow is back everything is working) Use atv files or nito tv to play you files!

This works for me with the MyBook World Edition NAS 500gb.

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