Apple TV video content freezes

I've got a couple of Apple TV units in my home and love the. Lately however the content freezes momentarily as we're trying to watch movies or TV shows. I stream the content from my 24" iMac instead of syncing content. The freezing, or jerking, is only seconds but it happens continually making it virtually impossible to watch anything without pulling my hair out. The iMac is the 2.8Ghz with a 750GB hard drive. I do have about 320 movies on it with 93GB of free space on the hard drive. I'd appreciate anyone's suggestions on what I can do to speed up the streaming so it doesn't jerk.

Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.
802.11g is more than fast enough to work with the tv, of course 802.11n would be better. To determine whether this is an encoding issue or a network issue, try playing the files in itunes, if they play fine then try pausing them when playing on the tv when the freezing starts, if a minute or so pause cures the problem then you need to look at the network, if it doesn't then it could well be the encoding.
Have you tried another channel on your wifi.

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