Comments on: Use Your Mac Mini as a Media Server Part 2

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:35:56 +0000

Delenne,
With Leopard, Front Row can see DVD rips stored on a network drive. Just put an alias in the “movies” folder

By: Delenne

Delenne — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:26:10 +0000

Yes, could somebody please politely point me to where part 3 is? I got the codecs and so forth working for this far, but sadly all my media is stored on another computer which is running XP. I am on the correct workgroup so I can navigate to the files, but how do I get Front Row to see and be able to play them? I am not keen on having to shunt everything through iTunes, is there another way?

By: G_MAN

G_MAN — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:21:41 +0000

Great write up. What is also helpful is “Remote Buddy”. You can control just about everything with your apple remote.

By: SearchCz

SearchCz — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:57:38 +0000

Seems like Apple TV is geting capabilities that are not available on the mini … specifically menu access to youtube videos and HD movie rentals. Any word on when / whether this stuff is coming to Front Row ?

By: Sjoerd

Sjoerd — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:54:42 +0000

Longing for part 3….. as a all-time-windows-user I’m thrilled finally using the great MacMini, but struggling to get it working correctly with my 500gb NAS-drive that is part of my home-network and sharing lots of videos (also with Bonjour) for, well… nobody at the moment…

By: josh

josh — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:30:56 +0000

Looking for part 3…

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:24:11 +0000

“…In this next article in the series, I had been planning on going into detail on how to store your media files on a remote NFS share….”

When will Part 3 be available? This is the missing link for me – getting access to video content on an external ethernet NAS drive.

By: tmag

tmag — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:26:34 +0000

When will we get Part 3??

By: Push Eject

Push Eject — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:14:14 +0000

Part 3! Part 3! Part 3!

Thanks for the great content.

By: smoldersonline

smoldersonline — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:27:19 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing.

As I’m still struggling to share content over the airport network, I look forward to part three. For the moment I’m grateful for Andrew’s comment (of April 26). Following his pointer I am finally able to stream avi’s to my AppleTV enabled Mac Mini.