Does Front Row use Quicktime plugins during play?

Hi,
Just curious - does Front Row play everything that you've set up Quicktime to play? For example, if my Quicktime can play Divx files that my Toast 7 creates, does that automatically mean Front Row can play them as well? Or, does Front Row have it's own feature set of things it will and won't play?
Thanks

Yes, it does. Any app that uses the QuickTime architecture has available everything else that QuickTime does.

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