Stumped two "Genius' with Hardrive movie streaming question. Help.

Please bare with me while I post this because I don't believe the three people helping me at the Apple Store knew what they were talking about.
I have a Mac Mini connected to my television that has movies and music stored on it. I use it to watch movies, music etc. What I would like to do is also be able to access the hard drive on the network from my MacBook Pro and watch movies from the network.
I can see the hardrive on the Mac Mini, but it will not allow me to watch movies.
The Genius' told me that it can't be done. Is that true?
So I said "if I bought the new airport extreme, connected the hardrive to it could I do it. They said no.
So I told them that if I connected the hard drive to my PC then I could watch movies on any of my Macs from the Hardrive, so why can't I do it from a Mac.
They didn't know.
They said my only solution was to use screen sharing via MobileMe. Which is barely a solution.
Does anyone know if this can be done, because if it can't then this is a big minus in the Mac category in my opinion.
Message was edited by: chiefmusician

Hi Chief,
Can you please explain what format the movie files are stored in and what application you use to view them? Also, when you try to watch the movies on your MacBook Pro, do you get an error message of some sort, or what?

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