ITunes Home Sharing freezes when playing on a Mac

So I have a Mac Mini with all of my movies and TV shows (purchased through iTunes, digital download, etc.). I use Home Sharing to share that content with my Macbook Pro and Apple TV. Everything worked great before Mavericks.
I upgraded both the Macbook and the Mac Mini to Mavericks, and I'm having weird problems viewing video content on ONLY the Macbook Pro. Video still streams fine to the Apple TV.
But when I try and watch video on the Macbook Pro, the video will play for a bit, then freeze after a few minutes. Sometimes after several more, it will continue to play. Sometimes the video will start back up again, but it will be jittery, and there's no audio. Sometimes it just won't start back up at all.
All three devices are connected to an Airport Extreme via gigabit Ethernet so it shouldn't be a bandwidth issue. Nothing in the setup changed other than upgrading software and operating system.
The Mac Mini is also running Mac OS X Server (it was previously) and is only setup for File Sharing. File Sharing works fine. I get high-speed transfer of fimes to and from Mac Mini. Everything is updated (iTunes, OS, OS X Server, etc.)

It certainly looks like a Mavericks problem because my Mac Mini is still on 10.6.8 and I have home sharing enabled on it to play movies on my Mavericks iMac. The movie will freeze with no error and the play button is still showing the pause icon indicating that it should still be playing.
But on my old MacBook Core Duo–still running 10.6.8– there's no problem playing the whole video. My network is also Gigabit and I'm not using any wifi.
Another new problem I get is crackles on the audio when I use my Presonus FireWire audio interface and play a movie - either in iTunes or QuickTime. If I output using Airplay or the headphone socket it sounds clean.
After the movie freezes I get an error in the Console which says- "iTunes: Audio Codec returned an output channel layout incompatible with its output format."

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