Front Row a complete failure on new 24" iMac aluminum with Leopard.

One of the features I have enjoyed on my recent Macs, Front Row, is now one of the biggest disappointments on my latest iMac. Each movie will start by showing the usual progress bar extending to the extreme right (2.29 minutes,it would seem,) but then the actual movie clip stops and starts, sometimes in ten second increments. While all this is going on, the progress bar will indicate repeated progress out to the extreme right end of the bar, but it is then followed by the small segments of the clip, sometimes as many as ten segments until it finally reaches the end and puts me out of my misery. Anyone else experiencing this or has Steve singled me out for some rather cruel and unusual punishment ?

The strange thing is that Front Row works just fine on my Apple TV.
The application on the Apple TV is called "Back Row" inside Apple. I don't think this will have anything to do with Front Row on your Mac. (Except for the fact that both might share some music files, movies and pictures from your Mac.) But if your movies files do play on the Apple TV, it might indicate a problem with iTunes, QuickTime or Front Row on your Mac. All of those parts need to work together for Front Row to function correctly.
-Doug

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I bought 2 brand new Intel Mac Minis for my mother... one for her bedroom and one for her living room... so she could enjoy browsing her photos in iPhoto located on her PowerMac in the office.
After spending all this money and touting Apple as a religion, I am embarassed to admit to her I cannot get it to work.
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All updates are installed for all applications, yet I am experiencing the following problems on an 802.11g wireless network:
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2. browsing my mother's 30,000+ photo collection results in Front Row stalling for several minutes and eventually giving up, although sometimes it actually does show the albums
3. if Front Row actually gets to showing iPhoto albums over the network, they are not displayed in alphabetical order, the way I organized them on the PowerMac... they seem to be randomly ordered
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5. Front Row seems to only see my music on the network some of the time
6. I have no idea what's going on with photo slideshows, why the default music keeps playing, or how to modify anything about them
7. Why is there no way to browse individual photo thumbnails? My albums contain thousands of pictures. Am I really expected to sit through a slideshow starting at the beginning each time I want to view photo #1014?
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1) Yes, you must have iTunes and iPhoto running on the server machine (they are the applications that are serving the content)
2) That's a large number of photos. There are some timeouts that can get triggered while getting the remote information. Its a known issue but unfortunately there isn't a workaround.
3) They are displayed in the same order as seen in the local iPhoto application
4) iPhoto doesn't fully support the folders feature with shared albums
5) ?
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7) Currently there is no photo browsing feature, only slideshows.

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OXX

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I'm going to Uni on Monday and want to finally purchase my Mac now that Leopard has been released.
My question is: If I order my new Mac on Monday, will it come with Leopard or Tiger?
In the online store it still states that it will come with Tiger, but maybe this has just not been updated?
If people don't know the answer, would you happen to know an Apple contact email address or telephone number I can call (in the UK) to check prior to ordering?

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The online store has a phone number in the upper left hand corner:
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore/
0800 039 1010
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Will the new 3GHz iMac (24") with GeForce 8800 be good for Aperture v2?

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I've just seen the specs on the new iMac and I'm interested. I was resigned to buying a Mac Pro but found it difficult to justify the cost because I'm not a professional photographer. the new iMac might be good enough at a much more justifiable cost.
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Will the FireWire 800 be significantly faster than the FireWire 400? on my iMac, transfers to/from my external SATA disks run at only a dismal 13MB/s rather than the ideal 40MB/s. is it my iMac's limited processor power, or a limiting factor with having only 2GB of RAM and a scad of applications open, or a problem (concerning caching) with Leopard's copying routines?
for future reference, would the Aperture library saved on the internal SATA drive be faster than if it was saved on the external SATA drive connected via FireWire 800?
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Gregory Rivers wrote:
Will the glossy screen be a nuisance?
My expectation (every workspace is different as are individual perceptions) is that the reflective issues of the iMac's glossy screen would be very tolerable. What many (not all) graphics pros including me find intolerable is the fact that glossy displays add contrast and saturation to images. However many, perhaps most, non-graphics-pros prefer the added contrast and saturation, which is why Apple uses those displays. Each individual must do his/her own side-by-side comparisons and determine personal preference.
Will 3GHz/4GB be significantly faster than my 2GHz/2GB iMac for Aperture operations?
Yes.
Will the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS card be beneficial to Aperture use?
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Will the FireWire 800 be significantly faster than the FireWire 400?
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...for future reference, would the Aperture library saved on the internal SATA drive be faster than if it was saved on the external SATA drive connected via FireWire 800?
Yes. Best IMO will be to have the AP Library on the internal drive but with Referenced Masters on external FW800 drives. The top iMac allows up to 1 TB internal drive size. Since drives slow as they fill, order a large drive and keep it less than half full to optimize operation.
...is it my iMac's limited processor power, or a limiting factor with having only 2GB of RAM and a scad of applications open, or a problem (concerning caching) with Leopard's copying routines?
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Steve Weller, builder of the excellent <http://www.bagelturf.com/index.html> Aperture website, discusses speed improvements here:
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1273934&tstart=75>
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After talking with tech support they asked me to powered down and take out the power plug for few second and restarting the mac solved the issue with DVD.
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The new Front Row should take a backseat.

The Front Row on Leopard looks better, except for the fade-in/out effect instead of the desktop-being-pushed-back effect.
But its functionality has gone down. You can no longer resume movies or even leave the music on when you quit front row...
Is there anyway to get that functionality back on the new Front Row?? Its Apple, we should have everything, the looks and the works!
Its also a no-go on the feedback to apple... They don't have an option for Front Row.
If Apple people are reading this... you know what to do in 10.5.2!

arunjitsingh wrote:
The Front Row on Leopard looks better, except for the fade-in/out effect instead of the desktop-being-pushed-back effect.
But its functionality has gone down. You can no longer resume movies or even leave the music on when you quit front row...
Front Row appears to be a new application. The Front Row version supplied with remote control equipped Intel Macs seemed to call upon iTunes (and thence Quicktime) to do its heavy lifting. Thus iTunes helper would keep music playing after Front Row quit. The other feature you didn't mention you lost was that Front Row would play music wirelessly via Air Tunes and an Airport Express when it used iTunes. It also fails to use an external monitor for DVDs.
The new Front Row can be legally used by owners of Mac gear that doesn't have a remote control. This is a great leap forward for those who don't as yet have an Intel Mac, or who have a Power Mac. Plus Front Row now plays DVDs without invoking iTunes. It even plays DVDs from your hard drive (complete with cover art, if you add a jpg to the TS_Video folder). This is a great advantage for people living in the majority of countries where iTune Store does not offer movies at all. It would not surprise me to see further upgrades of Front Row fairly soon. Personally, I love it.

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I cannot get Front Row to work on my new MacBook Pro. I've confirmed that my Apple Remote works using iChat's video preview to see the flashing IR transmitter. I've pressed Cmnd+esc also. I've even tried to double-click on the System >> Library >> CoreServices >> Front Row app to no avail. If someone could help me, I would appreciate it. Many thanks in advance.
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