Watching AVI's on TV

Hello all

I need help with going from getting an AVI file from my hard drive to viewing it on my TV.

Can anyone please give me any suggestion on how to do this?

I'm not too smart when it comes to this, so please give me step-by-step assistance if you could.

Cheers

Jim

well.. you can use toast 7 and burn a dvd with it..

depending on what machine you have.. you could use the apple cable to make the output to s-video / composite connection.

dvi to s-video / composite
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~242136.asp

mini dvi to s-video / composite
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~285975.asp

mini vga to s-video / composite
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~133191.asp

hope that helps

I have an iMac Intel 20' with a Dual-layer DVD burner.

Is it that simple? Do I have to convert the file with anything or just burn the AVI file onto a disc and throw it into my DVD player?

if you have toast 7.. it does all the encoding on its own.. burns it to dvd.. and pop that into the dvd player.. i've been doing that the last few days.. the encoding does take a while..
depending on the quality you wish to encode it to.. i really dont care about the time.. so i just do it at "best"

and i ONLY use verbatim blank dvds.. best buy has a sale on them this week for $14.99 for a 50 pack.

just set it to encode and let it do it overnite.. or just find something else to do.. lol

No problem... Thanks for your help. I do have Toast 7...

I'll give it a try once I get myself some DVD blanks...

What about smaller files that would fit on a CD-R? Is it the same deal?... Just burn and go??

you should be able to burn vcds.. just not sure how great that would look.
pretty much.. just hit burn.. it does its thing..

Hey, I tried using Toast 7 to encode and burn an avi, but it came out black and white. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Giddy up guys... It works well... Thanks for the help