Convert many videos for play on Apple TV

I have a friend who has many videos going back for years in iMovie. All the movies appear to be in the quicktime format when looking at the video with GSpot. They want to play these videos on their Apple TV. I know you can export the movies one by one into iTunes, go in and edit the name of the clip and the metadata -- however this retains none of the information surrounding the "Event" it was labelled as in iMovie or the capture time. I know you can also publish to iCloud but that's a one movie at a time sort of deal and not a long-term solution.
We also tried sharing the files out with a DLNA server, but no devices I tried could play the quicktime movie format. It's shocking to me that there is no way to play iMovie videos on the Apple TV.
1. Is there a device anyone can recommend that will play the quicktime format, streaming over the network on a TV?
2. Is there anyway to export these iMovie videos to iTunes and save the Event title data and capture time/date?
3. Is there a better way going forward to import videos so they will be compatible with Apple TV? You can import them into iPhoto, though that seems backwards. iPhoto...iMovie....

I’ve been having the same issue’s [AirPlay / HomeSharing not working or working intermittently] after some digging and testing I found that this worked…please note I made the change 1 hour ago and things are still working.
Steps to Fix:
Login to the Router
Select Wireless settings
Change the “Wireless Mode” change it to 11G only. [Default is mixed mode]
Power off your computer[s], Apple TV and all other connecteddevices [wireless/wired].
Unplug the power on your router and wait 20 seconds…then plug it back in.
Once the router is full started up [5 min]…now turn on all your connected devices such as computer[s], Apple TV and all other connected devices[wireless/wired]
You should now be able to access Airplay as well as HomeSharing.

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