Will movies play okay on the ATV2 if they are choppy when they play on the computer?

I would like to buy an ATV2. I do have some dvds that I have already ripped to a computer, but the videos are choppy when played with itunes on that computer. The movies play fine on other computers. Will the ATV have problems pulling video from the computer?

Johnyboy80 wrote:
Thank you for the swift reply. I went ahead and bought it. Let me tell you, this thing is magic. The movies play choppy on the PC like I said, but play flawlessly on the ATV even while the PC is encoding another movie.
Sounds as though the PC is struggling to decode the movie on the fly - h264 is more intensive to encode/decode than MPEG2 - however the underlying bitrate for AppleTV compatible files is quite low and most computers would be able to stream them even if they struggled to decode them - appleTV does the grunt work of decoding and displaying so the PC is not stressed by just streaming.
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