No Sound on iTunes exports on Apple TV

So I finally got to use iMovie '09 yesterday, and really enjoyed the new features. I threw together a short film featuring my baby girl, and exported it, as usual, in large, medium, and mobile to iTunes and my MobileMe gallery. So far so good....
The movie plays just fine on MobileMe, on my iPhone, and on my MacBook Pro through iTunes. However, when played on my Apple TV there is no sound. Content exported from iMovie '08 plays just fine, as do movie and TV shows purchased/rented through iTunes. Any thoughts or suggestions?

I've not used this particular track, but none of the sound is playing, not just the music. Sound recorded by the camcorder is missing as well.
I'm using version 8.0.2 of iTunes and the Apple TV is running the latest firmware/software. Everything else on the Apple TV plays without problem. This includes rented HD movies, purchased TV shows, movies created in iMovie '08, music, and photos from Aperture. The first, and only, piece of content I've had issue with is the movie created in iMovie '09.

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I've had this problem for the last few months.
When I watch the trailer on ATV, the sound is fine. The sound also works great when we watch Netflix, Youtube or Video Podcasts.
The issue comes when I purchase the movie on Itunes on Apple TV and stream it. No sound plays.
Alternative: I downloaded the movie onto my laptop and used Airplay to view it on my TV.
Result: no go. This hasn't worked either.
Anybody have any ideas?

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Please help.
If I am playing music from iTunes 11.0.5 on my MacBook Pro and I use Airplay to sent the sound to my Apple TV it starts playing with sounds as expected.
But 75% of the time when it continues to the next track or song there is NO sound! I can see it plays because the play counter is running on iTunes and my Apple Tv aswell, and it Scrobbles to Last.fm.
I then have to pause and press play, or skip back to beginning of the track to get the sound back. Otherwise it can continue to play the rest of the album, just without sound.
I've tired updating all software and firmware. OS X, iTunes, Apple TV and my Time Capsule.
I've tired disabling the Equalizer. I've tried restarting iTunes, Apple TV and my laptop.
I've run out of ideas to try.
What can cause this issue? Does anyone experience anything similar?
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I first thought it would be the fact that my iTunes media files are stored on my TC and the .itdb and .itl are still on my local HD in Music iTunes folder. But there is no problem when playing music on my iOS devies using shared library (home sharing) with the Music app. Only when Airplaying to my Apple TV.
Apple TV2 5.3(6105)
Time Capsule 4 gen. 7.6.4
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Any help or ideas is really appreciated, i'm going crazy here

My network and TIme Capsule seems be setup correctly and follow the guidelines of "Recommended Wi-Fi settings" as far as I can tell. But i connected my AppleTV with Ethernet cable, since they basically next to each other. It seemed to help i managed to play 6 tracks in a row . But the problem still persists.
It is strange, i've had this exact settings for years now. And i've never had a problem before iTunes 11 came along. And it is only Airplay to AppleTV that fails, not playing or accessing through Home Sharing.
But perhaps i should start thinking of other ways to store my iTunes media files. The Time Capsule HD is sooo slow reading time. But music, movies, tv shows and apps take up so much space that my laptops 125GB SSD is a no go.
But thanks for help and suggestions anyways.

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I have imported my personal movie from my Sony MiniDV camcorder to iMoveHD. The total length of the movie is just 7:45 minutes. There is a new option in iMovieHD called Export to Apple TV. When I use the export option I have two issues:
First being, the export takes about 5 hours to complete on my iBook. This does seem very weird. It takes about the same time if I try to export using H.264 codec, terrible slow. If I use the DV codec it takes about 20 minutes.
Second issue, is after the export, when I play the movie in iTunes, the video does not maintain the aspect ratio. All people look fatter and shorter than the original movie. The height seems to have shrunk.
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Exporting from iMovie to a movie with the H.264 codec tends to be slow. Very slow. The time required depends on your processor. What you describe is probably normal. If your export succeeds, and it sounds like yours did, everything is okay. It's just going to take a while. (Apple TV is going to sell a lot of Macs, I suspect, for this and other reasons. But that would be speculating.)
Regarding the dimensions of the exported movie: yours is 720x480, I suspect. You probably exported from a "normal" iMovie DV project. That's the dimensions I get here from a DV project. (To learn more about the exported movie, drop it on the QuickTime Player icon in the Dock and open the Movie Info window.)
My guess is — and it's just a guess — Apple TV will handle what appear to be aspect ratio problems when the image appears on the TV. The "Apple TV" export format defaults to one of several dimensions, depending on the source material. (It's different for HDV iMovie projects and DV Wide projects than for DV.) It will work with your TV to make it look right.
Like the generic iPod export setting, the Apple TV setting offers only the "Default" setting. That's a clue, suggesting QuickTime knows what it has to do and it takes care of doing it. When the movie is intended for Apple TV, Apple probably doesn't want you messing with it.
The quality of the Apple TV imovie is so good it hurts, doesn't it?
Tip: If you don't want the Apple TV movie to open in iTunes, change the suffix of the exported movie from ".m4v" to "mov". (Either when you export it or later, in the Finder.) Now when you double-click on it, it opens in QuickTime Player.
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I have my computer connected to a Bose T20 with an HDMI cable. I can get surround sound with movies, but not with iTunes. I only get stereo instead of 5.1.
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(sorry from my english, i'm only french !)

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