Still No Apple TV Audio or Video Streaming Options?

StephenB wrote:

Apple TV requires "home sharing" - which is available in Apple's iTunes, but is not available in any linux server (neither forked-daap nor the older firefly). That's because Apple hasn't opened that particular feature up, so no one but Apple can implement it. So you can't access the NAS directly from your Apple TV. You can open the NAS iTunes library on a PC, and then use AirPlay from the PC to play it on the Apple TV. That's about the best you can do.

You are of course correct. The current solutions and supported devices would therefore be as follows -

1. If you use Firefly then you can share only music to iTunes running on a Mac, to iTunes running on Windows, or to a Roku SoundBridge. Firefly does not support any generation of Apple TV even for just music.
2. If you use forked-daapd which is available for OS 6 models, then you can share to iTunes running on a Mac, to iTunes running on Windows, music only to a Roku SoundBridge, and in theory music and video to an Apple TV 1 (the original)
3. If you run a virtual machine within the NAS and within the virtual machine run either Windows or OS X then you can run real iTunes software. Then you will be able to use iTunes Home Sharing which does support streaming video as well as music to Apple TV 2 and 3 models as well as to other Macs and Windows computers.

Currently as standard no ReadyNAS units can run virtual machines but apparently people have managed to get VirtualBox working. It would be legal to run Windows in a VM via Virtualbox but not legal to run Mac OS X. It is technically possible (but illegal) to run OS X in a VM unless it is hosted on a real Mac. Note: the QNAP has built support for hosting virtual machines.

See viewtopic.php?f=35&t=26468&p=296922#p296922 and http://www.readynas.com/?p=6111 and https://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopi ... 4&start=15