Apple TV like front row

Hi,
with an Apple TV gen2 do I have access to the movies in the video folder of my home folder, like I have with Front Row?
Thanks,

Sorry, not directly......... but if you transfer them to your itunes library you will. Be sure to put them in a format recognized by ATV2....m4v and mp4 are best as they will also play on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad by streaming via something like Zumocast (free). You can re-encode the videos using Handbrake (free) using the "universal" preset. They will lokk great up to about 80" screen too. Dolby digital will pass through to your av receiver also.

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Difference between Apple TV and Front Row?

Right now I have a Mac Mini with Front Row hooked up to our 1080p HDTV. With Front Row we can watch any movies we've downloaded from iTunes and all our home movies on the TV and they look great. I've never used or seen an Apple TV in action. What more does it do than Front Row? Will the HD versions of movies for rent on iTunes only be available for the Apple TV?

So it looks like the the only advantage on having the Apple TV is the HD video rental through iTunes. The pros on the MacMini far outweigh the pros on the Apple TV. It's just a matter of how much I want to be able to rent HD movies from iTunes. The MacMini can totally handle the HD content playback (I shoot HD home movies all the time and play them back on Front Row on our MacMini to the HDTV and it has no problem) so I wonder why they are restricting the HD video rentals to the Apple TV.
And, by the way, you can connect the MacMini via HDMI by getting a DVI to HDMI cable and then taking the audio from the digital audio out. It's the way I have it set up now and it looks and sounds great.

Universal Dock, Apple Remote, non-Front Row Macs

I know it's possible, using a third-party workaround, to install Front Row on older Macs that don't have the infrared sensor built-in, that's not a problem.
What I want to know is if it's possible — by connecting the USB Universal iPod Dock with Infrared Sensor — to control these older Macs using the Apple Remote Control? Are there any third-party apps or plugins which will let you use the Universal Dock to launch Front Row on these non-infrared Macs?

One IR receiver that works with the Mac Pro is from Twisted Melon, Manta TR1. As you have discovered the Mac pro does not include any sort of IR and the iPod dock with IR does not work. The Manta TR1 works flawlessly with my Mac Pro.
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Apple tv starts front row

my wife just bought a mac book pro so now we have 2 on my apple extreme router. I keep all but my movies on external disk upstairs on a old g5. Now when i switch to apple tv downstairs it opens up front row on her mbp. i have to turn off her computer and restart itunes to get it working with tv. Any ideas thanx.

your remote is not PAIRED. Pair yours to your Apple TV and Pair hers to her to Machine. Out of the box the remote will operate all Apple TVs and Mac Machines with infrared.

Why did you drop Front Row? I use my mac as a media centre and apple TV will not work (no DVD control)

Front Row was an eligant way to access our media files (our nanny, my mom and other non mac users) found it easy. Apple TV would work but there is no DVD contol so it is out as the mac is our media server.
APPLE BRING BACK FRONT ROW!

http://www.mac-hatter.com/blog/frontrowenablerforlion
Plex as a replacement for Front Row. See http://www.plexapp.com
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How do I get Front Row to work with Lion?

Hello fellow Mac users,
How do I get Front Row to work with Lion? I have an iMac 27 inch computer and is the sole entertainment provider for my bedroom. I refuse to put a TV in my room and wanted to know how to get Front Row to work again on my mac? It seems that the upgrade to Lion erased the app.
I have quite a few movies and series that I bought off iTunes and is a shame that I can't use a media center app like Front Row on Lion.

I kind of have the opposite problem. I need to know how to turn off my remote on the computer. I am using the remote for my Apple TV and it keeps making the volume on my Computer go up and down (with annoying sounds).
There used to be a way to un-sync the remote with the comp but I cannot remember how and the Apple help is not much help! I have Lion.
Thanks!
Best,
Tony

Front row with a mac pro . . .

hi im just trying to figure out how i cn use front row with my macpro? has anyone figured out a way , or know how to do it? i would prefer if i didnt have to buy a remote but i will if i have to. thanks heaps
luke

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Right now, Apple only supports Front Row on Macs that have a built-in infrared receiver and shipped with an Apple remote. However, when Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is released, it will include Front Row for all Macs that are compatible with Leopard (like your Mac Pro). You can use the keyboard to run Front Row (Apple-esc opens it, for example), so you'll have an option if you upgrade when it's released.
If you want to use similar software now, you can install .
-Doug

Front row track listing

Is there any way to configure Front Row to ignore ID3 tags and sort my music by directory hierarchy? I keep all my media in an NFS share on another machine, and I have been sorting my MP3 files this way for years, very few of them even have id3 tags and this makes it difficult to find anything using front row. I managed to do this with videos by making a symbolic link to the NFS share in ~/Movies, but it doesn't seem to work the same way for music. Any help would be appriciated.

Doug's script worked, as I thought it might, but I am also continuing to pursue an "official" solution from Apple, because i absolutely HATE it when a company is aware of a problem, but refuses to officially acknowledge it and offer a solution.
The first thing out of the support engineer's mouth after we spoke about the problem, was "I'll escalate this to our applications group, but we really don't support TV Show content other than those you download from the Apple Store, and Front Row is kind of a dead issue now that Lion is out." And I was like, "Huh? What about the hundreds of thousands of people who do NOT upgrade to Lion and who RELY on Front Row as a key component of our media management and usage solution?" He didn't have an answer and I didn't really expect that he would. Apple doesn't give a crap about it's customers, any more than ANY big company does. Once they have your money, the love affair is over. Reading these forums and other online Apple support discussions, so many people had no idea that they would LOSE Front Row by upgrading to Lion. I can't believe that Apple would kill off something that is clearly providing value to so many customers - especially without offering an alternative (i.e., Front Row is dead, but you can use Orchestra Center" (or whatever) to get the same functionality, with these enhancements).
Someone very much smarter than me coined the phrase "Sales makes friends, but Service keeps them!" Definitely not something that Apple is using as an operating paradigm. Apple only loves you if you get on the money wagon and keep buying the new sh*t!

Front row freezes up

Every time i try to open a itunes playlist or any music in front row it freezes the whole computer up.
What is the problem?

Can you open iTunes directly without any trouble? There aren't any dialog boxes that pop-up are there?
Most of the time, you can use Apple-option-esc to force quit a misbehaving application like Front Row.
-Doug

Front Row is listing particular TV Shows as Movies, even though the "Type" attribute is correctly set to "TV Show" in iTunes.

Here's the whole story:
My friend gave me access to a whole season of one of my favorite TV shows, with all the commericals removed! Lucky me! I imported them into iTunes using File, Add To Library, and at first they all showed up in Movies. I then edited the file info to add episode title, number, season, date, rating - all the metadata - and then iTunes successfully moved the episodes from Movies to TV Shows. HOwever, Front Row is STILL listing these episodes (and ONLY these episodes) under Movies AS WELL AS TV Shows!
I have tried Consolidating the files (no effect), eidting all the "Get Info" data again to force an update (no effect), and I even went so far as to locate the episode files in Finder (they are corectly located under TV Shows, and NOT Movies), and then I manually selected the file, hit "Get Info", and changed the associated application from Quicktime to iTunes (the file extension is MP4 for all these episodes). This also had no effect on the problem.
The files play equally well from either Movies or TV Shows, but that is besides the point. I cannot find documentation on WHERE Front Row stores it's data and/or how I can "force" Front Row to update it's information so it is accurate. I have toggled iTunes open and closed, Shutdown and Restarted the machine and even run Disk Utility to make sure the permissions are all okay - and they are. None of this has any effect on the problem, which persists.
I am at my wits end with this problem. I have loggged a hardware issue with Apple over it, and they are due to phone me tomorrow, but if anyone has a quick and easy solution to this issue that DOESN'T involve deleting and reimporting all my movies, which really shouldn't be necessary, I'd love to have your feedback and assistance. We pay upwards of $1,000 and then some for these confounded machines, they should not require 'work arounds' - applications provided with the OS should be documented and supported!
Thanks for your help!

Doug's script worked, as I thought it might, but I am also continuing to pursue an "official" solution from Apple, because i absolutely HATE it when a company is aware of a problem, but refuses to officially acknowledge it and offer a solution.
The first thing out of the support engineer's mouth after we spoke about the problem, was "I'll escalate this to our applications group, but we really don't support TV Show content other than those you download from the Apple Store, and Front Row is kind of a dead issue now that Lion is out." And I was like, "Huh? What about the hundreds of thousands of people who do NOT upgrade to Lion and who RELY on Front Row as a key component of our media management and usage solution?" He didn't have an answer and I didn't really expect that he would. Apple doesn't give a crap about it's customers, any more than ANY big company does. Once they have your money, the love affair is over. Reading these forums and other online Apple support discussions, so many people had no idea that they would LOSE Front Row by upgrading to Lion. I can't believe that Apple would kill off something that is clearly providing value to so many customers - especially without offering an alternative (i.e., Front Row is dead, but you can use Orchestra Center" (or whatever) to get the same functionality, with these enhancements).
Someone very much smarter than me coined the phrase "Sales makes friends, but Service keeps them!" Definitely not something that Apple is using as an operating paradigm. Apple only loves you if you get on the money wagon and keep buying the new sh*t!

Front Row vs third party apps (i.e. Boxee, etc.)

My next project is to create a home theater computer (HTMAC) and a separate networked media server. I'd like to use a mac mini as the HTMAC, especially if they start putting blu-ray players in them. I would also attach an external PVR to record TV. My goal is to rip all my DVDs, move all my music/photos, and record TV to the media server. Then I would be able to watch all my movies, recorded TV, Live TV, or browse music/photos from the HTMAC. But the catch is I want to have all that functionality from a single app like Front Row, so that to the user it wouldn't even look like a computer, just a very robust DVR. The next step would then be to get apple TV (or similar device) for my other TVs so that I could view any media from my media server.
I've looked into Windows and Linux/Unix based solutions, but I want the networking ease that Mac brings.
Playing with Frontrow on my MacBook Pro (with no PVR attached) it seems that networked media is not easily accessible. I've read some of the tricks about creating shortcuts to the networked folder on your computer. Is there a way to no kidding change the source folder? I also want to record the TV programs to their own folder, not my iTunes library. Is there a way to get the "TV" menu to point to a folder and not the iTunes library. Also if I connect a PVR will Front Row give me the option to watch live TV, or would I have to quit Front Row and open the PVRs software?
Does anyone have experience with Boxee, Plex, or some other software? Any thoughts on if those apps will give me what I want? Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Go Plex. Front Row is dead. Hasn't been updated since they ruined it with Leopard.

Front row not on my computer.

I bought my iMac of eBay and Front Row wasn't on it. Is there any way I can install it without the restore disks (I don't have them either!).
Thanks.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Front Row in Mac OS X 10.4.x is not visible as an application to the user. It's buried in the System folder in this path:
/System/Library/Core Services/Front Row.app
If you have a 17" iMac with a built-in iSight (which should be clear because of the camera in the middle of the top of the iMac) and it's not in there, then, in fact, it is not installed. But if it's there and you just can't open it for some reason, then you have a different problem. Let us know if you can see it in the System folder. If you don't have a built-in iSight, then Front Row is not available for your model iMac without purchasing Mac OS X 10.5.
If it's not there and you have an iMac with the built-in iSight, I would recommend calling AppleCare Support. They can send you a set of install disks for your model computer for a fee. In the past, it's been anywhere from $20 to $60. These install disks will include the bundled software, like iLife, that is NOT included with a retail copy of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
-Doug

Front Row with a networked audio system

Hey everybody!
Has anyone been streaming content (divx, xvid, mp3) from a NAS via front row, anyone have any experiences of this?
Does front row support Networked audio systems? (NAS)

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Right now, Apple only supports Front Row on Macs that have a built-in infrared receiver and shipped with an Apple remote. However, when Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is released, it will include Front Row for all Macs that are compatible with Leopard (like your Mac Pro). You can use the keyboard to run Front Row (Apple-esc opens it, for example), so you'll have an option if you upgrade when it's released.
If you want to use similar software now, you can install .
-Doug

Front Row problems with NAS drive (2 of them)

OK... having 2 problems with Front Row...
Background
First, I should say I'm new to Mac OS X, had early Macs, but went PC a long time ago.
I burned all of my music from CDs (I own) on my WinXP box, then copied them over to a NAS drive for easy access between computers.
The NAS is an Infrant ReadyNAS. The drive is shared on my network. The keychain app has the password information to the share. Though I should note, it doesn't matter if I remove the password from the share.
The ReadyNAS has a nice feature whereas it will act as an iTunes server, this is enabled. I do not have AFP or NFS enabled on the NAS since I regularly access the drive on WinXP machines. All access is SMB/CIFS.
I mounted the drive and created a link between the iTunes home folder and the network share. Thus, iTunes automatically mounts the share when started and seems to be comfortable that the files are accessible.
Everything works fine in iTunes.
Not so in Front Row.
Problem #1
Front Row will not read the "Shared Music." When I go this route in Front Row, it finds the NAS iTunes Music Server, but insists on being given a password to access the "Share." Of course, you can't enter a password.
Again, everything works just fine in iTunes. It shows the server fine under "Shared," and immediately brings up all music and plays it readily.
Just doesn't work in Front Row.
Problem #2
Front Row stopped auto-mounting the NAS share which is linked to the iTunes music folder. iTunes will mount it, if it is not mounted already when it first is asked to play a song. Up until this morning, Front Row would automount it too. This AM, after getting the Apple security update, Front Row would not automount the share. Note, if I automount the share manually, or go to iTunes (which properly automounts) before launching Front Row everything works fine from Front Row.
It took me a second to figure this out, as Front Row's terribly missleading error message is, you are not authorized to play this song - authorize it (well, that is the point of the wordy message). Of course, this confused me, since these are not iTunes store songs and of course, this worked fine yesterday.
Anyway, what is really happening, (I surmise) is it is not automounting the share and cannot read the song, and seemingly defaulted to the assumption it is a DRM problem.
I have to say, this is one out of the old Microsoft handbook. Missleading error messages and broken functionality from (it would seem) rushed out security updates.
I'm gonna have to tip my hat... some of those Microsoft developers that made the move from Redmond to Cupertino brought their game with them!
LOL
Anyway... anyone that can offer a hand would make my wife very happy. She likes Front Row... and now she has to start iTunes to make Front Row work. Sheesh.
Thanks in advance for the help.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) Nah

Hi,
same thing here: I have 3 LCD-screens (30,26,20 Apple Displays) on two graphic-cards (ATI X1900XT, NVDIA7300GT). Front Row does not display any pictures or movies. Menus work like they should, Music also plays fine, but images are not shown. It only shows a white screen on the main screen (30") and the other two are dimmed to black. If i type ESC i get back to the menus...
Any hint? Regards - Peter

Mini, Front Row, and HDMI...

Picked up a new Mini to merge our server (iTunes, iPhoto, et al were being served off my laptop, which was fine only when I was at home) with our Apple TV. Mostly a positive thing... moving iTunes and iPhoto onto the Mini went smoothly, the Mini plugged right into the power cable and HDMI cable that were there for the Apple TV, so that went wonderfully. Outputting to a 42" Samsung LED-backlit LCD in our family room.
Our only big downside right now: if we leave Front Row running, and turn off the TV, when we turn it back on later we're greeted with a solid blue screen that doesn't respond to the remote, the keyboard or mouse... we've had to reboot twice in the two days we've been set up like this. For now, we just have to remember to turn off Front Row... if we're on the normal Finder, it doesn't seem to have this problem.
Is this a known HDMI/Mini/Front Row issue, where it gets into a bad state if the TV is turned off, or something particular to my set up? I was kinda hoping this would be our entertainment system moving forward, it's certainly happier in other ways (gives our family a nice central place to plug in iPods, iPhones, iPads, expands easily, etc, etc)...
Thanks in advance!!!
PS: Our other minor gripe, for those who care, is just Front Row feeling like a step back from the Apple TV interface (which used to look like Front Row when we first got it, but got better)... I'd switch us to Plex, but it doesn't play our TV shows and movies off iTunes, so I'm hoping Apple will update Front Row someday to be something happier.

So far so good on the Mini... the down side (other than the hanging blue evil screen) is just how clunky Front Row is. The Apple TV interface wasn't perfect, but it was much cleaner than the Front Row interface.
We were watching Netflix streaming through Plex last night... Plex is awesome, I'd absolutely use it full-time and forget Front Row except we own a lot of movies and TV shows we've purchased through iTunes, and Plex can't play DRM'ed video. Because of that, right now we're using Plex for things like Netflix, Daily Show, Hulu, etc, and Front Row for our purchased media.
We copied our libraries over onto the Mini, consolidating them along the way.
With our previous setup, we had movies and TV shows on an external drive that was connected to my laptop, streaming to the Apple TV... which worked fine except when I needed to take my laptop somewhere, then the family was stuck watching whatever was actually living on the Apple TV.
Music, a lot of it was on my iTunes, but my wife and daughters had stuff on their iTunes on their machines... and with a plethora of iPhones, iPods, and iPads in the house now, we found we weren't using our laptops as media devices as much.
We started talking about collecting all our material (music, TV, movies, photos, etc) and putting it all on one device... then the Mini came out, and it looked perfect to just replace the Apple TV and be our central hub for everything!
So far, it's great... full 1080p, fast little box, moving the material over was painless, everything's syncing there now... just want a Front Row replacement that'll play iTunes video, and want to be able to leave that thing up all the time and expect it to be there when I turn the TV on.

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