Video formats question

I have a number of videos which are in the WMV format. I can play them with Quicktime with FlipForMac and they will work in my iMovie 3.0.3. iMovie then creates a file with a .mov extension.
What I want to do is to get them in some format that will play on my tv video disk player. This disk player will take MPEG and MPEG2 but none of the formats that I can so far save them in on my Mac.
Is there a way to transform these WMVs into MPEGs or MPEG2s or any form that's likely to play on my DVD player? (The DVD player will handle CDs too.) Does iDVD create a sort of file that my DVD player will recognize? Do things created in iDVD have to be recoded on a DVD (my Mac wont record DVDs) or will it work on a CD.
Sorry about all those newbie questions. I have carefully perused the forums and manuals but I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the formats and so on.
Thanx,
Ken

hi Karsten:
According to my library...;)
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