ATV2 not playing audio on my movies and sometimes movie won't play

My Apple TV 2 has been working great until Sunday. It stopped playing the audio to my movies. It also won't play some movies that it could play before. The audio all worked before as well. My music plays fine. I also have audio from my podcasts and movie trailers. I have performed a Restore, but that didn't help. Is my Apple TV faulty? It's only 4 months old, so it's still on warranty. My iTunes runs on a Windows 7 PC. It's up-to-date. I have a Apple TV first generation on a second TV and everything works perfectly on that one. I get audio on all my movies and no stream problems.

Have a look at Apple Support Article TS3518 at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3518. It gives advice about making a change to Audio & Video settings on your ATV2 and changing Dolby Digital out to "off." It worked for me.

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