Front row freeze up

For some odd reason, when I play movies (any kind mind you, DVD's, iTunes movies, homemade movies) Front row will freeze up during the movie for 4 seconds and then go back to normal. It happens with multiple files. Any idea whats going on?

I am having this too. Always worked nicely but now it's completely unusable. Quite a bummer. Did you update Frontrow a/o QuickTime via Software Update in the last week or so? I did this. There's help on this elsewhere on the Forum, may need to reinstall some codecs and wipe plist etc. When I fix mine I will post my findings.
Regards,
Jos

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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 freezing in the movies menu

Hi, I got my new Macbook last week, last weekend I ran all the updates, including FR, and everything seemed to work fine. Last night trying was the first time I went into the "Shared" video folder in the FR menu, and after that while trying to exit FR froze up. It keeps doing the same thing, and it only happens in the Movies menu. Sometimes I'm able to exit after 20-30 seconds, sometimes I have to shut down the computer.
Is there any way to reset/reinstall FR just to get rid of the problem? Thanks!
I'm an ex-windows user, new to Mac, still trying to get used to it

i have the same problem on my new notebook (a mac book pro intel). I observed that it freezes everytime i'm not connected to the Web and i haven't turned off airport...
is it possible front row tries to download some information by internet, it doesn't recognize connection is not active and given that mac is not connected the research freeze the application ('till a timeout message is sent back..after looong time...)?
everytime the solution for me it was to wait long time (really long) or to turn off computer...

Front Row Freezes

Just before upgraded to 10.4.5, my iMac started to "freeze" whenever I clicked on the Movie Trailers button. Here's what happens.
1. I open Front Row using the remote menu button.
2. I navigate to the movies menu.
3. I click select the Movie Trailers button.
4. The loading graffic starts to spin.
5. The graffic stops after 30 seconds or so.
6. The computer no longer responds to the remote or the keyboard.
This happens everytime I try to watch the movie trailers, even after restarting.
Does any one else have this problem?
17" iMac CoreDuo Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1.5 gigs RAM

Jim,
First try deleting this folder ~/Library/Caches/Front Row.
Also, have you updated the new Front Row,
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/frontrow101.html

Front row Freezes while playing DVD

Front row stops responding to input from the remote and keyboard after watching a dvd for some period of time, usually happens after and hour or so. The dvd's are store bought and seem to be okay. The problem usually only occurs after watching a movie for more than an hour. If at some point I hit pause the movie will not respond and keep on playing, keyboard commands don't do anything. I can get it to stop playing only by hitting comaltesc and which causes the system to either freeze or give me only a arrow that I can move around but do nothing with. I am thinking that my MBP is DOA since it has been doing this since the day I received it, May 21, 2006. Any suggestions would help, intermittent issues are a pain in the butt... Thanks
PS everything is up to date.

Have you guys tried the play/pause + minus button to get out of Front Row? This usually gets you out of most problems in Front Row. Trust me when I say your Mac hates you to unplug or power down hard - only use as last resort.
For better results in Front Row quit out all "i" media apps before using Front Row. Then allow Front Row to open the various apps for you. I know this is slower. Front Row is really only a "front" for the other software. If you update iPhoto or iTunes and then go into Front Row it can easily hang due to the updates. I am now in the habit of just quiting out all "i" apps when I update them. Works like a charm.

Front Row Freezes During DVD

Whenever I start a DVD using Front Row, about 1 in every 5 times the screen will remain black and nothing will happen, and I can't even force quit to get out, I have to do a force shut down. This is infuriating when all I want to do is watch a DVD and I have to restart the whole computer. What could be causing this?

I was hoping that might have been some help... before you do anything drastic, try the Front Row forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1164
Carolyn

Front Row Freezes and has Glitches with DVDs

I already posted this in another forum, but someone suggested I post it here.
Whenever I start a DVD using Front Row, about 1 in every 5 times the screen will remain black and nothing will happen, and I can't even force quit to get out, I have to do a force shut down. This is infuriating when all I want to do is watch a DVD and I have to restart the whole computer. What could be causing this? When the thing actually DOES play dvds, the screen has glitches, like pink and green random images that resembles when an old Nintendo system is crashing. Please help if you can!! Thanks in advance.

I sure haven't. I must note, also, that it's not just with DVDs. Video files on the hard drive have the problem, as well.
Someone mentioned that the VGA dongle might be the culprit but that doesn't make sense. The computer with an external display works fine until Front Row is used. And, as I stated earlier, it doesn't seem to matter with my situation if I have an external display connected or not.
My personal opinion is that there's a conflict with some third-party codecs on the system. For example, I have installed the Perian components and ffmpeg. Since I have some free time this weekend, I'll be removing these and see if the problems persist.

Front Row Freezing...

Hi,
I on a long drive, and don't have an mp3 player, so I hooked up my Macbook Pro to my car. I used front row on with the remote. It worked great, but after a few hours it started to skip, and then froze. The music kept playing, but the screen froze, and I couldn't change songs or volume. It would not advance to the next song after it was done playing the song when it froze either. This happened about 4 times. I couldn't force quit out of front row either, so I had to force a shut down of my computer. I was wondering if maybe when the hard drive started to spool down because of the power saving options, the music stopped? and front row doesn't wake it?

I can't say for certain what the problem was, but I would HIGHLY recommend you don't run your MacBook Pro in the car for extended time. Even if the hard drive has some kind of sudden motion sensor, the risk that you'll hit a bump that might make the hard drive read heads hit the disk platter is just too high. Hard-drive based iPods have specific buffers so that the read heads are not always being used, so it's safe to use them when in motion. (Also, flash-based iPods are fine since they don't actually have any moving parts.) But, a computer, even one with motion sensors on the hard drive simply are not designed to work that way. I would suggest you invest in an iPod!
-Doug

Scrolling through videos freezes Front Row

I have many home videos in iTunes and thus Front Row. When scrolling up and down the list of videos in Front Row, I see the thumbnail sized videos begin to run. Eventually Front Row freezes when scrolling up/down through the list. Remote doesn't respond, keyboard and mouse do not respond and ultimately I have to either remotely logon and kill FrontRow.app or reboot. I know that all of these videos are playable without error using the QT player and in iTunes so the files are OK and furthermore are playable in the thumbnails again the next time in FrontRow.
Anyone see this problem and know how to fix or work around? Thanks in advance.
BTW, these videos are full sized H.264 videos converted from DVDs I had previously made with a miniDV camcorder. I've played iPod sized versions of these videos in Front Row with no problem except that now I am using an HDTV and the iPod sized versions are no longer good enough.

I agree, but the problem only occured while scrolling. I was able to play each of the videos beginning to end. The problem was reproducable over a short time but not with any particular set of videos. In any case, the problem did go away as I am able to scroll up/down through all the videos with no problem. There's also been a few firmware updates, OS updates, and quicktime updates. Any of these could have fixed the problem. I'm happy to have my 'media center' Mac back in action.

Front Row will freeze in the Video section

Hi everyone
I have recently noticed that when I go to the movie trailers of the Front Row, after hitting the menu button on the remote to get out of the movie trailers section and to the main menu, the computer freezes for about 10 seconds everytime and thn everything is ok. I have checked every other section of the Front Row like the music, photos etc... and there is no problem. I have reinstalled Front Row, and I still have the exact same problem. my software is up to date and everything else is fine. I' starting to think that maybe there is a bug with the code. If anybody else has the same probelem or the solution to the problem, please let me know
Thank you

i just have 1 movie in the list, i used to have none and it would still freeze up. I've had this problem on my last mbp and i have read about some other people having the same problem it only happens in the Movies menu, the section just freezes up and if i press a bunch of button, all the commands will be excuted a while later very quickly, like a rubber band effect.
So i'm guessing it's not the movies since it happens with no movies as well.
This is reallyt the only feature I would really make good use of in FR and I want to have this problem resolved, or i guess i will just have to wait for a fix if one ever comes. Too bad I wanted to show it off to the other designers who would love this feature if it worked.
I love this mbp so far, (but it does get very hot when plugged in.)
If this problem is not the norm, shoudl I look into returning my mbp again?
last time they made me pay 200$ for the restocking fee even though it was faulty , and i dont' want to pay that again. This was at the Mac store in California, Bay street.
any help is appreciated ,

Front Row 2.1.6 freezes and crashes computer

I am pretty disappointed that for the entire time I have owned this computer (Fall 07), I still can't use Front Row. The latest upgrade gave me hope but I still can't play music.
When playing music, I can't get through one song before the screen saver goes blank leaving only the progress bar. This hard lock can only be resolved by holding the power button down until the unit shuts down. Anyone else experiencing this? If so, anyone found a solution?
I am running a MacBook Pro, 10.5.4, but again, the problem has persisted through all versions of Leopard and now, a Front Row upgrade too!
Shawn

I have the same problem. It seems to be caused by the graphic card update following 10.5.2 and incorporated in every update since. Something in the driver cannot handle long song titles when playing in Front Row.
The only solution thus far, which works for me after a reinstall is never to update past 10.5.2 and not to install the graphics card update 1.0
Alternatively, enjoy editing your iTunes library to weed out long song titles. I have given up any hope that Apple will address this or release a graphics card restorer to remove the update. It is even more annoying when you release that the drive update was only released to fix problems a minority had with their Macbook Pros. It did not introduce any improvements or added functions. Mine worked perfectly well before. Now everyone's is screwed up.

Front Row/music playback issue

Hi all,
I have a rather large music library in iTunes and I have my Mac Mini attached to my stereo and TV. I use Front Row for music playback. Recently, I have been having trouble as the music will "stall" randomly or "freeze" for a couple seconds, then resume playing. Very annoying.
I've noticed that this problem does not seem to happen if I select the music from iTunes without Front Row running or if I use FR to select the music, then back out of FR with the little remote.
Anyway, I prefer to keep FR running. I've seen LOTS of articles and posts regarding video freezing with FR, but not music. Anyone know what's wrong?
Thanks!

I have the same problem on my macmini. :/
And I too like to leave Front Row playing songs while I do other thing in my house.
It hangs in almost every song now, it never did that before. I wonder if it's this iTunes update...
Is there someone else with the same problem, or someone that could help us solve that?

Front Row is taking a LOOOONG time to open movie lists.

Hello
I have a Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66 with 512MB RAM.
I have an external hard drive for my video files, and the Mini is connected to my 1920x1080 Sharp LCD TV as a monitor. My movie files are located on the external drive, and I have an alias in my "Movies" folder, per advice from another forum posting.
When I launch Front Row, it takes almost 10 minutes to open my movie list - sometimes front row just freezes. I have perhaps 50 items in folders and sub-folders on my movie list, and they are all located on the external drive. When they were on the local drive, it also took a VERY long time just to open the movie list in Front Row (that's just opening the movie list, not even playing the movies!)
What's going on here? It's unusable as it is - how can I speed things up?
Thanks,
-----------S

I have a mini with an external drive containing a library of movie files and front row is also very slow with that - though in my case around a minute to pull up the list rather than 10.
Part of the problem may be the type of external. In my case, I have an enclosure which supports both Firewire and USB 2.0, and when connected by FW, immediately I select the movies option in front row, the drive is woken and the activity light starts blinking. After it has read the contents of the folder, front row then displays the list with a brief pause as the preview for the first movie in the list appears.
When connected by USB, the drive doesn't start responding for several seconds, and when it does the access light blinks at a much slower rate. That would be expected since USB doesn't have a dedicated controller, so data flow is dependent on how busy the system is with other things. FW on the other hand has a constant data rate due it it's dedicated controller, which means that while it is in theory slower than USB2.0, in practice it is generally faster to use.
Thus, if not already connected by FW, if your drive has that option, connect it that way. Also open the energy saver preference pane and make sure there is no checkmark against 'put hard drive to sleep when possible'.

Problems with Front Row, listening to Music and view Photos

My new imac is experiencing problems while in frontrow. If I am listening to music through itunes and then go to view photos at the same time the computer freezes for minutes on end before coming up with an error message about not being able to access the photos. When I finally manage to get out of front row, iphoto is opened up on my desktop. Is anyone else having problems like this?

Yeah, I think, unfortunately thats the best solution to this. Disappointing though, this is the 2nd imac that I've had major issues with straight out of the box.

Interrupting Keynote 3 with Front Row

When I interrupt a slide with Front Row to play a song, I get the desktop back afterwards rather than the slide I interrupted. I have to manually click on the Keynote icon to get back to my slide. Is this the intended behavior? It would be really nice if the interrupted slide would come back up.

When I interrupt a slide with Front Row to play a
song, I get the desktop back afterwards rather than
the slide I interrupted. I have to manually click on
the Keynote icon to get back to my slide. Is this the
intended behavior? It would be really nice if the
interrupted slide would come back up.
This drove me mad until I discovered the trick. This assumes you're using the Apple Remote.
1) click through KN until the point you want to switch out to Front Row. (This can be any point, say build 27 on a slide with 43 builds. It can even be in the middle of an embedded QT movie - yes, even a 1920x1080 HDV assuming you've got the codec from FCP or QMaster).
2) this is the important bit. Click the ENTER button on the remote - in the centre of the click wheel - BEFORE you click the MENU button to call up Front Row. The freezes KN at exactly the moment you click.
3) Do whatever you want in Front Row
4) Return to KN using the MENU Button to get back up the Front Row hierarchy
5) Then click the ENTER button again to restart KN at exactly the point you left it. You do not get the Desktop back and you do not need to manually click the present slides button in KN.
This really blew 'em away at one of my recent gigs.
MacBookPro 17. G5 Dual 2Ghz. iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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