Home Sharing to iOS suddenly not working

I have an iMac with a quite extensive library of both music and movies/TV Shows. I of course use Home Sharing to stream this library to my Apple TV2, first and foremost, mot also to my iPad on occasion.
That is until a few weeks ago. Whenever I try to access my shared library from the iPad it says that the library contains no videos and suggest that I buy some from iTunes Store. I can think of no particular thing that happened before this behaviour. It just suddenly stopped working. Home Sharing to my Apple TV and Macbook is still working as it should.
I've tried all typical solutions I can think of - disconnecting and reconnecting the Apple account on my iPad, disabling and re-enabling Home Sharing on my iMac, restarting devices, etc. I also tried restoring my iPad. I did however, not set it up as a new iPad, but restored a backup before trying to access Home Sharing again. My wireless network is distributed from a recently purchased Time Capsule.
Anyone else have this problem? Any solutions or suggestions out there?
Just to clarify, the iPad can see the library and apparently connects, but instead of listing any content it shows a black screen saying "No Videos".

Same exact thing has happened to my wife's iPad. It was working perfectly for her just last night. And my iPad continues to stream videos from the iMac perfectly, right next to hers. All software is up to date, rebooted both the iMac and the iPad, with no luck. This is very strange.

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