QuickTime control of external devices like lights, fans

I am looking for a way which a QuickTime movie playing on a Mac can at certain timecodes trigger external events, such as turning on or off lights in a room. Nothing super-fancy but some combination of software and hardware that can send simple on/off commands to electrical outlets.

Unfortunately, no. You see what I was getting at, getting QuickTime to generate triggers that something else could handle. Trouble is, I don't know what that "something else" might be.
It's got to be do-able, though. This is basic show-controller stuff. Timecode-based controllers have been used to operate AMX-type lighting controls, motion bases, environmental controls, and just about anything else you can think of, literally for decades. To be able to trigger those controls based on a synchronized event track in a QuickTime movie seems to be a pretty obvious step.
I suppose another option if you're really clever would be to develop an "event track handler" for QuickTime that would allow you to create a specific event track using whatever syntax you require for your devices. But that makes it a system level programming project. I know I'm not quite that clever!
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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