Will a Quicktime movie play on a TV?

I am using OS 10.3.9 and Quicktime pro 7.0.2. I also have the MPEG2 plug-in installed. Can I make a move that will play on a regular DVD player and a TV?

I ain't no expert; I'm just a learner and experimentor. That said...
I play any and all QT movies from my laptop to pretty much any TV. I've been experimenting with compressing movie files in different formats so they are not so large a file size. Most currently I am encoding in AVI (DivX- free downloads) and in Toast's Video CD format. I just don't burn it to a CD or DVD disc. I leave the newly encoded Video CD (which is now a MPEG-1 muxed file) on my hard drive. Likewise if I created an AVI file. This works with other export options, you don't need Toast. (Read more below).
All you need to do is connect a video-out source from your computer to any cheap old RCA type plugs and plug those into the video-in port on most TV's. Likewise with the audio. (On the computer side, for audio, I use the headphone or Mic out port). Then open your QT movie and from the Movie drop-down menu, select Present Movie. It's great!
That said, here are the hurdles:
You need to be able to get the video signal out from your computer. My G4 laptop has a video-out port that has a small connector that on one side, fits the computer port, and on the other side has one standard RCA output port and one SVideo port. By RCA plug I am referring to the regular old cables you use in the back on most stereos. Super cheap in Radio Shack. And most TV's have input ports for those, some on the back, some on the front. If not, you can plug into a regular VCR, which would be connected to the TV. All VCR's have RCA ports. To view, set the TV or VCR to the channel or port where your cable is plugged in. On my VCR I select Video 1, which camoes after the last channel I get. On a TV, I select something similar. Fiddle around.
Older Macs had RCA ports. Newer ones have ways to do it but need some form of adaptor. You might even get by using your regular Monitor out port, with a adaptor that has RCA plugs at the other end.
Once past the hurdle of cable connection (not a big deal) the playing of the movie to TV is easy. For this reason, I recommend not creating too high a quality file. You won't need it. I took a 15 GB iMovie file and exported it in QT 6.5.2 Pro using the Toast (6.0) Video CD option. It produced a 400 MB (yes, MB, not GB) file. The only hitch with that is it produces a 320x240 movie. Blown up too large looks poor. So I use QT>Movie>Present Movie>Double. That shows the movie in a black border but pretty large and very clear. Or if you encode/compress using other means - like DV stream, or MPEG-4, you'll be able to play the movie in QT Full Screen mode. Either way, I like what this does. And I'm still experimenting/learning. Good luck.
nÔÔdle--h?ad

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