Downloaded movie to apple tv stops playing movie after few minutes

After a few minutes of watching a movie through Apple TV and Home sharing, the movie inexplicably stops and goes back to main menu.  This only started happening 2 days ago and I've had the Apple Tv for 6 months now with this issue not happening before.  Seems to maybe be linked to my comuter going into sleep mode, but again, it never used to do this.  And I'm not 100% sure of this fact.

Hi,
I had a more or less similar problem after upgrading to Itunes 11 and the upgrade on the appleTV. Videos just stopped without any message and went back to the main menu of AppleTV.
My Itunes library is hosted on an Imac with a 6Tb firewire 800 connected disk.
What really resolved it was to set the following options in ' System preferences'  , ' Energy saver' :
Computer sleep: Never
unselect ' put hard disk to sleep when possible'
select all other options.
After an Itunes restart it worked continuously without any interruption what so ever.  (+10 hours or so) .
Hopes this helps you,
Frans van Wessel

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