Problem sharing videos over home sharing network

I have two computers. They are connected over a wireless network and I have home sharing setup.
I can play music on both computers, and can play what I don't have on one over home share from the other. The same cannot be said of movies. I can see the movies in home sharing. I can even drag and copy them through the network from one machine to the next. The movies will play on both computers once it is actually located on the machine itself. It is my understanding I should be able to stream the movies over home share, without having to transfer the file itself first. I am unable to do so.
Thoughts? Thanks!

This has been a problem for a while. Please report it to Apple.
itunes menu > help > provide itunes feedback
This is an older thread on it
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2335653&tstart=200

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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 7681 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Anonymous UUID:
Mon Aug 8 08:01:40 2011
panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff80002c268d): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f80ec5fb0, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000000, CR3: 0x0000000000100000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0xffffff806b7ce004, RBX: 0xffffff8000000000, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0xffffff80000000e0
RSP: 0xffffff807f7f3ce0, RBP: 0xffffff807f7f3d10, RSI: 0xffffff8000000000, RDI: 0xffffff806b7c9004
R8: 0x0000000000000001, R9: 0x000000000d229a0b, R10: 0x000000006100006a, R11: 0x0000000000000011
R12: 0xffffff806b7c9004, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0xffffff806b7c9004, R15: 0x0000000000000000
RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff7f80ec5fb0, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
CR2: 0x0000000000000000, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Faulting CPU: 0x6
Backtrace (CPU 6), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff807f7f39a0 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff807f7f3a20 : 0xffffff80002c268d
0xffffff807f7f3bc0 : 0xffffff80002d7a3d
0xffffff807f7f3be0 : 0xffffff7f80ec5fb0
0xffffff807f7f3d10 : 0xffffff7f80ef4559
0xffffff807f7f3d50 : 0xffffff7f80ec69f1
0xffffff807f7f3e80 : 0xffffff7f80ebf12d
0xffffff807f7f3ec0 : 0xffffff7f80e7f936
0xffffff807f7f3ef0 : 0xffffff8000639536
0xffffff807f7f3f30 : 0xffffff80006382b0
0xffffff807f7f3f70 : 0xffffff8000638154
0xffffff807f7f3fb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
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