10.3 to 10.3 Home Sharing broke?

Rhetorical question, but interested if anyone can validate my results
All Computers have Quicktime 7.6.9
All computers are on the same subnet. (Mac Pro 100bastT; iMac, Macbook and AppleTV 2 on same wireless SSID)
Home Sharing worked flawlessly prior to 10.3.1.
I have a Mac Pro that was upgraded to iTunes 10.3.1 (Not sure if I did the 10.3 first) that hosts my library.
My iMac has iTunes 10.2.2 will play video and audio shared via Home Sharing
Apple TV Will play video and audio shared via Home Sharing
Macbook plays audio and displays a filmstrip like it's missing a codec.
I can share the drive and play the content in Quicktime on the Macbook fine.
I also checked sharing from the Macbook with the same results: AppleTV 2 O.K. Mac Pro plays audio and shows Filmstrip.
Hunting franticly for a way to downgrade iTunes on my Macbook! Any suggestions?

I'm seeing pretty much the same thing, though I can't confirm it's specific to 10.3.1 -- all my PCs have been upgraded already. I'm pretty sure this all worked a few weeks ago, however, and your post makes me suspect it's the iTunes upgrade that broke things.
However, I don't get a filmstrip and audio -- I don't get anything at all other than iTunes displaying the title, total run-time, and some meta-data.
None of my ripped videos or home movies will play PC-to-PC via iTunes Home Sharing. They play fine on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch via home sharing.
Here's another post that seems similar: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15406969#15406969. In that post, the author mentioned their purchased videos play, but not their ripped ones. I've confirmed that's the case for me, as well. I can play a TV show and some music videos that were purchase from the iTunes store. Do you have any purchased video you can try?
Note that all my PCs are running Windows (XP and 7). So if it's a problem with iTunes 10.3.1, it's not platform-specific.

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Then I tried it with my iPad. The pie got to the same point, sat
there for a long time, then completed and worked fine.
I did a hard reset of the phone and tried again, this time it
behaved like the iPad and worked fine.
Not sure whether it was the hard reset or whether sharing with
another device "woke something up", but in any event it works
now and I can't get it to break again.
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Sharing: 2.7 GHz iMac i5, OS 10.6.8
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Home sharing with the new Apple TV / iTunes update is just broke. Only works for a bit unless you restart iTunes or disable / re-enable Home Sharing. Use to work great until the last updates. This is not a network (router, firewall, ...) issue - just a (bad) regression in Apples software. Hopefully they fix this soon, hard to believe its been broke this long already. The Remote app update also fails to connect to Apple TVs (but does connect to iTunes) for many people as well. Poor QA all around. :(
I have yet to see any suggestion that actually works other than reverting to previous versions of fwr / iTunes - which is a pain / joke to do.
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It seems many of the things I bought the iPad for are non-functional and the tablet is virtually useless. I can't beleive Apple would produce software and hardware which is specifically made to work harmoniously but obviously doesn't.
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Understanding Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
Setup Home Sharing on iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4557
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972

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I purchased an app called "Where's My Water?" on my iTunes account. My iTunes account and iTunes library is set up on my desktop PC. Anyway, my mom wanted the app. She has her iTunes account and library set up on our laptop PC. So, I connected both my desktop and her laptop via Home Sharing by entering my account information on both computer's Home Sharing screens. The app was transferred from my library to her library. When I synced her iPod to her PC, it did not move the app to the iPod. So, I figured I would just manually download it off the app store on her iPod and she wouldn't get charged $0.99 because the app was already in her iTunes library. It turns out when I bought the app on her iPod, it actually took out money from her account. I want to know what went wrong. Why didn't the Home Sharing thing work so she could get the app I bought without having to buy it herself?

The short answer: because Home Sharing isn't designed for sharing apps, and apps aren't designed to be shared.
The longer answer: Think of it like this...
You download some music in iTunes. With Home Sharing, another user can listen to it by streaming it over the network. But the data itself is on your computer. If you turn off the computer or take it off the network, the other user can't access it.
But if you send another user the app, they aren't just streaming the data- they installed it on their iOS device. Because they weren't the one that purchased it, such a transfer could easily be considered "piracy" or "stealing," and nobody likes that (least of all, Apple).
When iTunes sees this app, it obviously recognized it, as if saying, "Hey, how did you get this app on your device, if I have no record of you purchasing/downloading it from the iTunes store?"
post edited to correct spelling errors

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