No audio on films played via Home Share

Good evening, everyone!
I have a rather odd problem. When accessing media via Home Share, I get no sound when watching video content. For audio-only files, the sound comes through fine.
Does anyone know what I can do to solve this?
Many thanks!!
DAN

You also need iOS4.2 as well as the iTunes downgrade.
If you look at the ATV specification you will see the file types it supports and you will find the ones that don't work are not to that specification.
So you will need to encode your MP4's with the H.264 codec and then they will work. Or you will have to drop your resolution down for MPEG4 encoding.
Apple probably did this so that streaming would be compatible with their products and work without any problems.

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