Front row default song order

Hi,
my mac mini is connected to my TV anf this is really great !
But (yes there s a but !) there s 2 things i don't understand :
- when front row create its playlist in itunes, the order is by song id, so if i want to listen all albums of an artist, the order is : album 1 song 1, album 2 song 1, album 1 song 2, album 2 song 2 ... that s really a pitty, it should be better (in my opinion) if it was sorted by album ! is there a way to change that ?
- i've got a freebox (french provider FREE) that provides TV by rtsp, the stream is mpeg2 TS, and there's no way to play it in quick time (even with mpeg2 component i buy) so it is not possible to play the streams in front row ! is there a tips for that ?
thanks in advance for your answer
regards

Hi
it doesn't answer my (old !!!) question :
what about streaming in quick time ?
what about song order in front row ?
VLC is the proposed software by my FAI ! but thanks anyway !
regards
buzzer

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