How do I stream movies to Apple TV?

I just got a aTV 1stgen from a friend and started to sync it with some of our movies, but I don't want to have to wait for everything to sync to it (not sure everything would fit).  I thought you could stream content from your computer too.  However, anything that isn't synced doesn't show up.  I looked through the manuel and the forums and I cannot find an answer.  How do I get this to work?

odd my movies showed up when I started the sync
and when I played them they would stream until they were on the hd on the atv
but atv don't play that many formats of video so if you got material in your itunes
it can't play it will never be able to do so even when the sync is don

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