Playing a Playlist of Videos on Apple TV

a video playlist can play any type of video providing it is in the correct format.

bear in mind though that the appletv filters the playlists so that it only shows the appropriate video type depending where you are looking.

eg if you are "tv shows" section of appletv, the playlist won't show any video tagged as a "movie" or "music video".

no it won't do what you want.

if the playlist contains movies, tv shows and music videos, and you go into "movies" on the appletv and view the playlist, it will filter the playlist and only show the movies. (same if you go into tv shows etc).

now what i haven't tried is actually creating such a playlist and then going into "movies" and letting it play all the way thru to see if it actually does play the other content types. i suspect it won't as it doesn't show them when looking at the playlist on the screen.

for example, i have numerous playlist that contain just tv episodes.
these playlists only show up when i go into "tv shows". if i go into "movies" those playlists don't appear as the appletv knows that there are no movies in those playlists.

you could of course simply just change the content type of the files you want to play to "movies" or "tv shows". that would enable you to play your playlist regardless of what the content really is.

you can change the content type in itunes.