How do I play a DVD on my IMac and make it show on TV?

I have an Apple TV 3, IMac 22", and want to use my IMac's DVD player to play a movie and project it on the TV screen. How do I do this?

You would have to use mirroring. Native use requires a recent Mac (2011 or later) running Mountain Lion (10.8). Otherwise there are programs like Airparrot.
The native DVD is blocked, you would have to run something like VLC to display the DVD through mirroring

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