Movies in Itunes not showing up on Apple TV

I have this exact same problem, however all the movies have been coded with the OPTION>MOVIE. I just double checked them and they are all MOVIE. They were playing fine to the Apple TV a few days ago, but upon returning from X-mas, only the ones I bought from iTunes are populating on the ATV. I have about 300 DVD's that I have painstakingly converted over the last six months to m4v (.h264), but it does me know good if I can't see them on ATV. Any thoughts???? Please, I'm about ready to pull my hair out.

Thanks in advance.

Where are you trying to access them on the ATV?

Movies or computers? Two separate icons, the first being only for iTunes purchases.

Good question, but I go to computers first. I realized after a while that I had to have iTunes on to access the movies, but now twice, after putting 15 or so movies on itunes and running MetaZ on them, they show up ion ATV, then after a while all but one are gone. They were all decoded the exact same way using handbrake, and then I used Meta Z. In fact they are all still in iTunes, just not on ATV.

And I may have stumbled on something else....I wrote this last night and then double checked that the movies were indeed OPTION>MOVIE. So I checked about 4-5 of them. All the same. All I did was GET INFO and then click OK. All those movies that I clicked are now on ATV, but only those. Thoughts???

Not sure if it matters, but the movies are located on a harddrive connected to my Time Capsule, not local.

And thanks again vazandrew!

Maybe iTunes is having trouble accessing them/lost connection with the external drive, itunes has to be able to see them in order to send them to ATV through home sharing. Try checking a few more to see what happens after selecting 'get info '

I am able to SEE all the movies in iTunes on my Mac. They haven't gone away, but yes, when I click on them to GET INFO, and then click OK, they appear on ATV. Do you think it might be a connection issue with my harddrive? If so, do you know why it would be disconnecting? Sorry about the other questions, I really suck at networking stuff.

That's what I meant, it's lost connection and when you click to 'get info' it is re-established.

If the hard drive is connected to the time capsule it could be there that the issue lies, are you having any other issues? Check istumbler.net to see if there's interference on the network.

So here's what I've noticed. When I haven't used my computer in a little bit of time, and need to access the drive in say FINDER, if I click on it, there is a definite lag (anywhere from a few sconds to maybe 15 seconds). I had assumed that it was because that drive was on the network, so it was just my computer being a little slow. However, I am wondering if it is "timing out" or something, and if there is a way to keep a constant connection between the computers and the drive connected to the Time Capsule.

Also, I donwloaded iStumbler, but am not sure what I am looking for. Grateful for any help.

Thanks already for the time you have spent.

It is accessing the drive over the network, if there is interference that can cause lag. That's what istumbler will help verify. The site will help guide you, basically the main things are signal strength and noise.

What would be a bad noise/or signal strenght. Currently I see both my maiin network and guest network twice on iStumbler with the first of each at 50% and the second of each at 45%. Also, hte noise is 21% and 15% respectively. Thoughts?

Your signal strength is pretty low so it looks like there is a high rate of interference. Do you have a lot of nearby networks ? Other wifi devices and appliances can also cause interference. May want to refer to your router manual and change some settings.

I would like to also point out that just because some of your movies are tagged "Home Video, you can still watch them on Apple TV. They are just in their own section under Computer named "Home Videos"