Using iTunes with Two Libraries Simultaneously.

In the living room I have a Mac Mini with a large external drive running iTunes that I use as a media server. I recently got a new TV for the bedroom and have hooked my MacBook up to it. My laptop has the iTunes library that is synced with my iPod and keeps all my music files organized.
Is it possible for the iTunes on my Laptop to share the library of the iTunes on my Mac Mini?

Technically movie sharing does work as well, but it has terrible performance when trying to go through itunes. However if you turn on music sharing so that the itunes library shows up under sharing on the second computer, front row seems to work ok depending on how you have the movies compressed. Launch front row, go into sources at the bottom of the list, and select the library of the other computer. Give it a bit to load and you should be able to play the movies from the other computer there now.

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