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Erica Sadun over at O'Reilly has [written a plugin for the AppleTV][1] that allows users to load video directly from web URLs. Using the plugin, if you point your AppleTV to a URL and the data can be downloaded (rather than streamed), it will playback on your AppleTV.
The one downside is that the file much be completely downloaded before playback starts. Unfortunately the plugin doesn't seem to work with FLV encoded video which means direct links to YouTube videos are out.
Despite the current limitations the plugin does help remove a step from the usual process of downloading and adding videos to iTunes before they show up on your AppleTV. And who knows, at the rate AppleTV hacks are going, this plugin might be a full fledged web browser by the end of the month.
See Sadun's [post at O'Reilly][1] for more details.
[1]: http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/04/update_loading_urlbased_video.html?CMP=OTC-13IV03560550&ATT=Update+Loading+URL-based+Video+onto+Apple+TV "Loading URL-based Video onto Apple TV"
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