Home movies freeze at same point

Hi,
I hope that someone can help.
I have broken my daughter's wedding video into 6 episodes. These are in MP4 format. I use Add File to Library to import into iTunes.
Then on my apple TV I can play these movies but they always freeze at exactly the same point a few minutes in.
Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening.
I have updated apple TV to latest software and am running iTunes 11
This is very frustrating - I'm sure that you can imagine all the discussions when the in-laws come round and I can't get all of my 'stupid technology' to work!
Thanks
Steve

It was affecting my work iMac as well, and finally I figured it might be my Rules crashing it. I disabled all of them, and the crashing stopped. So at least I've got that much figured out. Now I just need to figure out how to turn the Rules back on without incident.

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I have several home movies that are in .mp4 and .avi format.
I want to watch them on my AppleTV.
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Here is my breakdown:
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When i publish out of imovie to Apple TV(large file) then watch the home movie on Apple TV it does not look well, i see banding in flat areas....renting HD movies look AWESOME...why not for my HD home movies?
Any suggestions?
Message was edited by: Scott Hennessy

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A vendor offers a "1560x1080p HD" transfer of home movie film to one of 4 formats.
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