Streaming a downloaded movie onto Apple TV

I downloaded a movie from the internet of which the files are in vob format. I can play the movie fine on my iMac through DVD player. How can I stream this this movie to my HDTV through Apple TV using Airplay? Home Sharing is turned for both the iMac and the Apple TV, and my iTunes library is appearing on the Apple TV menu screen.
Do I have to import the movie into my iTunes library? If so, how do I do that? I tried importing the folder containing the movie into iTunes but couldn't do it. Do I have to convert it to a different format?
Thanks in advance

vob format would usually indicate a DVD source - if you downloaded this from somewhere the assumption would be it's a commercial movie someone else has ripped and is illegally being made available for download on the internet.
Discussion about obtaining/ripping/converting commercial copy protected DVD content is prohibited by the forum T&Cs and often prompts thread deletion by the moderators.
I know OS X DVD Player allow playback of vob fies but itunes does not, and these files are incompatible with AppleTV.
AC

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