Apple TV video playlists

I'm trying to stream music videos from imac to apple tv. If i drag music videos into a new playlist in itunes and go to the apple tv only videos from apple store show up in the playlist. My personal videos were encoded in mpeg-4 using "vuze" software app to encode into "apple tv formant". I even re-encoded into m4v using quicktime pro (since that is the format from apple store for music videos). I can see the videos in question in "movies" in the apple tv main menu and they play just fine but I want a playlist. All of my apple products are up to date, apple tv is running ver 2.4 Thanks!
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Select one, right click and use Get Info to change the file type to Music Video.
You may also need to ensure the Options tab for Get Info has 'Skip when shuffling' or similar unchecked.
AC

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