Front Row black screen bug

I have a weird problem while running Front Row on my PowerBook 17''. Once I run Front Row, an intermittent black screen comes with it. If I don't move my mouse for a few seconds the screen goes out. Notice that I'm using the external DVI connection to an external monitor in Mirror Mode.
Best regards.

Is this what you are seeing...?
Front Row: Photos will not play if nested in another folder or album
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302567

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Front row - black screen with audio

I recently installed Leopard on my old iBook.
When i start Front row, I can see the menus , trailer list, movie list etc., but when i play anything, the screen goes blank, i can see a progress bar moving(which auto-hides), and audio is also OK, but there is no video.the screen just goes blank and remains that way.
I have perian installed on my machine and all videos work OK in quicktime, VLC etc.
any possible solutions for this? has anyone else also faced this issue ?
thanks.

I can get a picture with Quicktime...but if I try to get enlarge the screen, the picture often becomes corrupted. I'm just rather annoyed that I spent $40 on this series and am having these issues. I only downloaded iTunes because there was no other option of getting this show. I've waited 24 years to see the entire "Liberty Stone" Mini-series (there was a problem with the tapes DIC released and they were missing eps)...so this just feels like a taunt.
I'm hoping this gets fixed quickly. It sounds like there is a lack of standardization with the DRM being used on these files.

Front Row produces screen artefacts

When I search the Front Row discussion forum I find a lot of unhappy users. I for instance cannot understand why Airtunes support was abandoned. Someone in Cupertino must have though: "Hey guys: I have a great idea...".
Anyway: I found another weird bug. When playing music from Front Row, the screens turn black after about 10 minutes. Nothing strange so far. But when the screen is woken, it show block-like artefacts that disappear after about 20 seconds. The artefacts flash with about 1 Hz. What could be wrong?

Someone in Cupertino must have though: "Hey guys: I have a great idea...".
Since this is a user-to-user forum and none of us work for Apple, we can't really speculate about why this decisions was made, if there even was one. You can continue to use iTunes directly to play your music through AirTunes.
When playing music from Front Row, the screens turn black after about 10 minutes.
In the Front Row "Settings" menu, have you disabled Front Row's own screen saver?
-Doug

Imac 27" when i try to watch a dvd on front row the screen goes black.

is this supposed to happen and it stays black and nothing pops up i waited for like a minute and nothing happened so i just quit out of front row.

No that shouldn't happen. Part of the problem may be that you are still running 10.6.2, you should run Software Update (is under the  in the upper left of your screen) and bring it up to 10.6.5. To update correctly do a backup first! I'm not kidding, backup first! To update quickly though use the Combo Updater located here. Also if you haven't you should run Repair Disk Permissions (Applications, Utilities, Disk Utility) and finally it probably would help you to do both a SMC and PRAM reset. Finally if you are in the habit of turning off the computer when you're done for the day you should leave it on 24/7 as Apple suggests in your owners manual, it only needs to sleep when inactive.
Directions for SMC & PRAM resets are:
_SMC RESET_
• Shut down the computer.
• Unplug the computer's power cord.
• Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
• Release the power button.
• Attach the computers power cable.
• Press the power button to turn on the computer.
_PRAM RESET_
• Shut down the computer.
• Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
• Turn on the computer.
• Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
• Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
• Release the keys.
Roger

Front Row blacks out when I try to play DVDs or movies

Those same DVDs and movies play fine in DVD Player and Quicktime respectively. But when I try and play them in Front Row, I keep getting a black screen on the TV. It's only started happening in the last couple of days, so I suspect a bad update. I have played movies before in Leopard's Front Row without any problems.
Interestingly, when the screen goes black (and the TV tells me it's lost its signal), if I connect in via screen sharing from my laptop, the screen comes back immediately. If I disconnect from screen sharing, the picture on my Mac Mini goes dead again.
My setup is a Mac Mini connected to a Panasonic HD Plasma screen via a VGA lead (as HDMI doesn't work properly).

I submitted this as a bug and got the following follow-up email:
"Hello -------,
This is a follow up to Bug ID# 5607645. After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering. This issue has been filed in our bug database under the original Bug ID# 5471427. The original bug number being used to track this duplicate issue can be found in the State column, in this format: Duplicate/OrigBug#.
If you have any additional questions related to this bug or wish to check on status of the original issue, please update this bug report or send an email to <[email protected]>, referencing your Bug ID# 5607645.
Thank you for submitting this bug report. We truly appreciate your assistance in helping us discover and isolate bugs.
Best Regards,
Apple Developer Connection
Worldwide Developer Relations"

Front Row Blacking Out?!?!?!?!?!

when i got into front row to watch a music video it will go black for a bit and go to the video and the video will play and go black agian and the video will play and so on and its not the video i know its front row anyone help me?
-cody

I watch trailers on Front Row, when i enter the main trailers area, the screen goes blank and my "sleep" light flashes, if i click any button on the remote it returns to the menu. Then while watching trailers it will blank out for a couple seconds quite regularly ( minimum 5 times each trailer). Very annoying!

No LED light on front and black screen when trying to start up

Not sure why started my Mac just like everyday and I noticed it had frozen on start up screen was shaky but froze none the less. I tried to restart with the button on the front and nothing but the hard drive kicking in and the light on the button won't stay on like when it is up and running but will flash if you hold it and try restarting. Tried hooking up other monitor and the other monitor won't display so I don't think it is the monitor and like I said I can hear the hard drive and computer come on I just have a black screen and no lighted button on the front. Anybody have any suggestions. My iMac G3 is a 600mhz graphite running 10.4 and classic 9.2 but very rarely do I use the classic on that one as I have another just like it and they were networked together this one is fine. Help!!
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Question about front row and screen saver

I just got my Imac 20 inch screen computer. I've done every thing the directions say about starting my screen saver but it just wont start. Also in my itunes music library, that little remote control that lets your music play automatically while showing the album covers for the songs that are playing. Thats called front row. I see in preferences in front row that it says my screen saver is on but still it wont show my screen saver of which I chose from the apple menu. And front row only plays a few of my songs from my itunes library. Most of the songs, when I am trying to let them play automatically from the remote, will not play. When I try to click on a song from the remote that is not playing I get this sighn that says "front row cannot play this song. Return to Menu". All the songs in my Itunes library play fine when playing them directly from the library. It just seems like this "front row" thing is not working properly. Any one got any suggestions?
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I think I can verify that the screensaver should NOT be activating during a (DVD at least) movie; I've watched several without any screensaver intervention. Apple's been smart enough to disable the screensaver during DVD playback for quite some time - my brother was surprised when his Windows box at work interrupted his DVD with the screensaver.
However, the screensaver (and password) did activate during FR iTunes play today. That was fine until I needed to pause playback and take a phone call. Can't pause without entering password, so I just closed the MBP's lid to put it to sleep. Annoying. Clearly, there are folks who'd prefer the screensaver never start when FR is active. Other security-minded folks might feel differently; fine, give us a preference pane.
As my brother likes to say, whenever faced with the rare Apple problem, "Fix it Steve!" (Neither of us bother with "Fix it Bill," we know that's futile.)
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Reporting: Adobe Air - Black Screen Bug Spotted

Basically, my latest android app got rejected during a certification process due to a black screen popping up after triggering the alarm.
This is my error report that I received from the store:
Black screen appears after alarm
<Procedure>
1. Launch application
2. 'Start' > Play game > Alarm show up > End alarm > Check
<Expected Result>
Black screen should not appear
So all you have to do is create a new android project in air with nothing but a white background, set the orientation to horizontal, check the full screen option, export and install the app, run the app, minimize the app and open the clock app and set an alarm, go back to the app, wait for the alarm, then cancel the alarm once it pops up, and what you get is a black screen.
Interestinly enough, the background music plays in the background, admob ads work as well, only the screen goes black, but once we minimize the app and then go back to it again, everything's fine. Moreover, when the app is in a vertical mode, the black screen doesn't appear.
Additional info: Apps developed in Flash Professional with the use of Air 4.0. Tested on android 4.3 & 4.4.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to upload android air apps until the problem gets fixed .

It may well only be GPU mode that shows the problem, though I could imagine Stage3D in Direct mode would do the same. The general case is that when the AIR app goes into the background and then comes back, the GPU textures may have been wiped out by the system. If you do really go to the background, as would be the case when an alarm dialog appears, you'll get the deactivate event that you can use to know that it has happened, and you can set the stage quality on the activate event.
In the case of the ads it may not count as being a full deactivate, but there is bound to be an event from the ad ANE. Look in its documentation for what evens happen when the ad is closed, and apply the stage quality work around to that event.
There is a chance that you won't have got the deactivate event, to set the quality to something different, and then when the activate event tries to change the quality nothing happens. At least I'm thinking that may be the case. You could work around that by testing if the quality is the one you want, then go away from that and back again to force a reload. For example, if you want the quality to be "medium" while the app is running, you could do this in the activate event, to make sure that it went away from medium:
if(stage.quality == "medium") stage.quality = "low";
stage.quality = "medium";

Front Row Appears & Disappears...

When I press cmd+esc or use the apple remote to start front row, the screen briefly fades into the black screen that normally happens when front row begins but it then that instantly fades back onto my normal screen, it seems that front row begins but then aborts.
Has anyone had this problem or know how to solve it?
Im using latest version of leopard and have reinstalled front row latest software update to no effect.
Cheers,
Steve

my apologies, found out the answer, read an answer to a previous discussion and found out that i was running a custom screen saver that front row didnt like so had to take it off. hope that sorted it out if anyone else had a similar problem

Macbook and TV - Front row controls.

I'm connecting my Macbook to TV through MiniDVI - S-video and i am working with front row with it and it works fine.
My question is... Is there a way that i can turn on Front Row on screen of my TV while having normal desktop screen on my MacBook? I thought i could turn this on by turning off "mirror screen" but it still shows Front Row on both screens?

No, Front Row takes over. One screen will be dark while Front Row is running in the other screen.
-Doug

Does your front row show the Applications playlist?

My Front Row has some bugs, I think.
Inside Music->Playlists, the following are listed but do not show their contents:
Applications
Library
TV Shows
But Applications shouldn't be there and TV shows already shows up in the main front row menu.
As for Library, this is my entire iTunes library. does anyone have this issue:?

If your movies play with the QuickTime Player program outside of iPhoto, then Front Row will be able to show them. The "Movies" section of Front Row only looks inside your "Movies" folder in your home folder for files. If you make an alias from the iPhoto library of your movie file into the "Movies" folder, then Front Row should be able to see them and play them. Remember, if you drag an item (or some items) while holding down on the Apple and "option" keys (it may be "alt" on a non-North American keyboard), you will create an alias where you drop the items instead of moving them. That might help you move several of them or even the folder they're in to your "Movies" folder.
-Doug

Do you have these iTunes playlists in Front Row?: Applications, Library ?

My Front Row has some bugs, I think.
Inside Music->Playlists, the following are listed but do not show their contents:
Applications
Library
TV Shows
But Applications shouldn't be there and TV shows already shows up in the main front row menu.
As for Library, this is my entire iTunes library. does anyone have this issue:?

I just got my intel mac today and I have the same problem. I do not know how to solve it.

Front Row Scrolling Error

When scrolling the Front Row menu screens with my Apple Remote, the
every other line is skipped. I've had this problem for several years
with my iMac (iSight) 20 " and have been unable to get any leads
regarding the solution of the problem.
Any insights greatly appreciated,

It went down or up two at a time with no pause while it behaved normally when using the keyboard. After pruning my hard drive of little used applications and files prior to migrating to my new iMac 27" i7, this aberrant behavior stopped and the problem on the iMac G5 is now resolved. Unfortunately, I don't know what the conflicting app was. Thanks for your response Watanabe-san.

Why do I get a black screen in front row when watching some iTunes store purchases? esp Cars 2

We bought Cars 2 a few months ago from the iTunes store. The movie won't work in Front Row, we only get a black screen (except for the blue Front Row controls at the bottom) although the audio comes through just fine. The annoying part is all of our other iTunes store movies work fine in Front Row. Just Cars 2 is broken. I don't think that it is an authorisation problem because it plays okay in iTunes, Quicktime, even via airplay to an appleTV or via Home Sharing to our iPad.
The movie is only standard definition so I am guessing that it is not an HDCP issue; I understand that there is only HDCP on HD movies. We are playing it on a Mac Mini (core 2 duo) on a Sony Bravia via a VGA connector.
After a little bit of complaining, apple let us download the movie again in case the file was corrupted, but unfortunately the same problem with the new version.
The computer did have Perian installed at one point, but uninstalling and restarting made no difference.
I have found lots of reports of movies with missing picture in Front Row but these are all ripped videos, never with an iTunes Store purchase.
Apple won't refund our money as the purchase was more than 60 days ago by the time I gave up troubleshooting and reported the problem.

Yeah! Problem solved: It's a QT issue.
Cause: Mac Update Software downloaded a faulty QT.
Solution: Download QT from Apple's QT site.
Great to have the Video back

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