How do you stream movies on ATV?

In iTunes, when I set the speakers to "ATV" instead of "Computer" I can stream music but if I open a movie it just plays on my computer. Can you stream video?

AppleTV menus:
Movies - under My Movies
TV Shows - under My TV Shows
Music - under My Music
this assumes you set AppleTV up for sync/streaming in iTunes using the 5 digit code.
If you just set it up for streaming files, then under the corresponding sections you will have an entry for Shared Movies/TV Shows/Music instead.
If you have no media showing up on the AppleTV menus check under Settings>Computers that the iTunes library is listed there and is white not greyed out. Also does the device get listed under iTunes devices?
Synced material is copied to AppleTV from iTunes and can be played when iTunes is not running.
Streaming material causes the files to go to AppleTV when they're needed on the fly via iTunes>network>AppleTV so iTunes must be running to transfer the file. AppleTV decodes and processed the files in real time itself unlike the Airport (Speaker) function where iTunes decodes the file to the music bitstream and sends that to AppleTV from where it goes to your TV or hi-fi.
The things listed under the My TV Shows/My Movies/My Music are a combined list of both synced (copied) material and also things available to stream live from iTunes. The aim is to make the stream/sync process transparent to the user but it can also cause confusion as you might think all the stuff is on AppleTV, plus the list will change if itunes is shut down.
AC

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