Front Row Installer

Recently I crashed my system when I messing around with terminal trying to enable smart card login on my Intel iMac.
I had to reinstall the OS (archive install) and during the reinstall process the installer hangs up on the last step (some iWeb script on disc 2). I attempted this three more times and the same thing always happens. The second disc would never finish with the install. I finally had to reinstall just the basic system on disc 1 and not install any of the software on disc 2 for the installer to finish. The process only took me 23 hours!
Everything is working fine now and I didn't lose any of my files, but now front row is missing. I've looked all over the web for some kind of front row installer but I can't find one.
Does anyone know if Apple still publishes the Front Row installer (1.0) and/or why is the second disc of the system installer always hanging up?
Any comments or help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
iMac (intel) 20 inch Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I don't know where is the Front Row Installer, but you could try to find it in the second CD, and if you find it, try to install it alone.
This kind of problem is usually caused by dirty or damaged media.
Is there anything logged in Console.ap when you try to install something on the second CD ?
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Ich habe ein Problem bei der In stallation von Front Row. Ich hbae die Updates heruntergeladen. Wenn ich die Updates installieren möchte, wird mir gesagt, dass man auf diesem laufwerk die Updates nicht installieren kann. Wo iegt das Problem?

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Warum fehlt Front Row nach OS X Lion installation

Hallo Apple Support Community,
ich habe vor kurzem OS X Lion installiert.
Es bringt Geschwindigkeitsvorteile und ein paar nette neue Features mit sich.
ABER Front Row ist verschwunden seit ich OS X Lion installiert habe.
Ich frage mich warum?
Muss ich das Programm jetzt neu kaufen?
Ist Apple ein Fehler unterlaufen und es wurde versehentlich gelöscht?
Für Info wäre ich dankbar.

http://www.mac-hatter.com/blog/frontrowenablerforlion
Front Row wird von Lion gegangen, aber dieser Link zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie es zurück zu bekommen.
Die iTunes-Bibliothek hat sich geändert und wird nicht mit FrontRow mehr.
AppleTV ist der neue vordere Reihe, wenn Sie viel zu tun. Es gibt auch andere Optionen wieBoxee und XBMC, dass ähnliche Dinge, die FrontRow verwendet werden, um zu tun.
meine erste und einzige Sprache ist Englisch. Es tut mir leid wenn das, was Sie gerade lesenist grammatikalisch schlecht.

Front row in Lion 10.7 issue (-70012) and video_ts not playing issue -solved

Hi all,
thought I just post my solution to the front row issues in 10.7. I looked for a solution for days, and when I found it, I thought it would make other peoples live easier if I combine everything in one post.
I actually had a couple of issues:
PROBLEM:
first front row stopped playing VIDEO_TS files in 10.6.
the second issue occurred when I thought upgrading to 10.7 would solve the issue; Front row still couldn't play the VIDEO_TS, because FRONT ROW was gone...
SYMPTOMS:
both issues always showed the same symptoms:
when a dvd-back folder was selected, front row would show a black screen, and then, caused by my frantic pushing the ESC button, front row would give me the dvd player not valid -70012 error.
CAUSE:
so what happened? I chose to buy my MBP 17" with the smallest HDD (yep sorry, was cheap-s-ing). Then later that year, I decided to buy the HDD caddy and switch my internal superdrive for a SSD. I ended up placing the original HDD in the hdd caddy, which I then put in the Superdrive's slot, and I placed the SSD in the slot where the original HDD was residing first. I now had a MBP 17" late 2011, with vertex3 SSD. I forgot, I also put in 16 GB, replacing the 8 GB.
So, when I back-upped all my favorite DVDs as VIDEO_TS files, (no I did not download dvds through usenet), grabbed the popcorn, and started Front Row, the disappointment began. No VIDEO_TS file would play, always the same -70012 error message. So after a lot of internet research I stumbled upon a guy who said: yeah, you have to upgrade to 10.7. After the upgrade my FRONT ROW was gone.
SOLUTIONS:
In 10.6:
As Apple's DVD player is always looking for the internal dvd player as a prerequisite to start, Front Row, which uses Apple's DVD player as video player, will throw up the -70012 error. 'Cause it finds the HDD in the HDD Caddy instead of the SuperDrive. So in 10.6 (and in 10.7 also) you can use the following solution:
(I got this solution partial from http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20070591-263.html)
1: modify the DVDPlayback framework that the DVD Player uses so that it will recognize external drive as a valid DVD playback device. (The HDD Caddy came with an external casing for the SuperDrive)
2: download a hex editor (I used Hexedit 220 from http://hexedit.sourceforge.net/ )
3: Go to the folder /System/Library/Frameworks/ and back up the file "DVDPlayback.framework."
4: Open Hexedit_220 and use it to open the following file:/System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A/DVDPlayback.
5: Using the editor's find&replace through COMMAND-F, replace "Internal" with the text "External" and save the file. Note that Hexedit also saves a backup automatically.
6: Close the file once saved, and then run a permissions fix on the boot drive using Disk Utility. Then restart the system and you should now be able to play DVDs off the external drive using DVD Player. That is, If you use an external dvd player (which I don't use).
7: I inserted a very small USB stick in the MBP with no data on it, and Front Row and Apple DVD Player accepted this. I could now play my backupped DVDs.
ofcourse, I still wanted to upgrade to 10.7, so here's the solution to 10.7
10.7:
upgrading was a simple click with the mouse, worked like a charm, Office still worked, and some minor updates installed through software.
Front Row however, gone...
I used the steps outlined in http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/21/front-row-for-mac-os-x-lion/ to get Front Row back:
- first get the package from Madhatter: Download the free package installer by MacHatter
- install, or customize the install
- all done.
Then I used the steps from step 3 through 7 outlined above in solution 10.6.
Catch:
So I did not find a solution to fooling the DVD Player / Front Row with the USB stick. So everytime I watch VIDEO_TS in Front Row the USB stick must be inserted. But, the good news, I can still use my remote control for something.
Hope I helped some guys out there with this solution.
Regards,
Johnno

The issue has previously hit Apple TV owners. I think people came to the conclusion that it was a HDMI handshake problem. Basically the process where the device and TV greet each other, make up some rules about communicationg and what their secret key is and so on.
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or..
- Put something in between the computer and TV. For example, if you're using an amplifier as a part of your home theather set up, this will probably work. The service guy said he has his Mini connected to the amplifier, which in turn is connected to speakers and a projector. The inverted colors still appear, but only once per night (i.e. after the first problem is reset by resetting the link then it's fine).
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However, if we use the sharing feature in front row on the mac mini, only a subset of TV shows appears - and infuriatingly it's not even 100% reliable which items will fail to show - but it is about 90% reliable, which is even more frustrating, as it's clearly not totally random. The shows most likely to be effected seem to be the ones added in the last few months.
I've also tried running front row on different clients on the same LAN - both my wife and my Macbook pros do the same, as does an iMac in our kitchen, so it seems to me to be either a problem which effects Front Row generally, or a fault on the iTunes server Mac Pro. Is my library simply too big for the Front Row sharing feature to work correctly? If so - this is ridiculous!?
I've looked into alternative clients for the Mac Mini, like Mediacentral, which doesn't seem to support sharing of iTunes videos, and also Plex which again doesn't appear to support this, but is frankly so complex it's hard to tell - if it will support seamless iTunes sharing of all content, I'd be happy to give it a go - but it doesn't look like it does.
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All machines tested are totally up to date, OS/iTUnes wise..
I haven't managed to find anything on the internet about this, which leads me to think it's probably an obscure issue with my iTUnes installation, rather than a problem with library size, since I'm sure many other people have bigger libraries than this....
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Can you open Front Row using the keyboard? Pressing Apple-esc together should open Front Row. You can then use the arrow keys and the return key to move around. If you can't run Front Row with the keyboard, you might look to see if it's still installed. It should be in this path:
<Macintosh HD>/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app
If it's not in there, you'll need to re-install it from your original Mac OS X install disk. You can do this by running the "Install Bundled Software Only" option on the disk. There's no need to boot from the disk. On the "Installation Type" screen, there should be a "Customize" button where you can uncheck all the other options but make sure Front Row is checked "on" and then run the installer.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I tried this one (2.1.7) as well with the same result: "Front Row can't be installed on this disk. This software update is not required". I believe the reason is that 2.1.7 is not 64-bit (for Intel Macs) while 1.1 is. Based on the create dates for the packages, I think 2.17 is an update to 1.31 (though I can't get a copy of 1.31 to examine), and 1.31 is not an update to the 1.1 (64bit) version which has the newest create date. If true, it looks like Apple needs to update the software. But in the interim, I can't use any of the smart playlists created in iTunes in Front Row. Playlists which were created using specific songs rather than groups defined by rules work just fine, with the Front Row playlist matching the one created in iTunes.
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Front Row plays audio but not video of MP4 H264 AAC files

SL 10.6.6
Here's the problem:
Take an MP4 movie file encoded with H264 and AAC thats plays with no problems in QT, iTunes, Front Row
Open this file in QT7Pro, add a mask using a GIF file then export as MP4 using video and audio pass through to avoid re-encoding
The new video file plays OK in QT and iTunes but only plays the audio track in Front Row - the video is just presented as a blank screen
This happens to every file i've tried it with.
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All the posts I can find on this topic seem to refer to subtitles causing a problem - these files have no subtitle track
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Even if it doesn't work I am pretty sure they will come up with a new update fixing this, but the point is that Apple isn't used in making bugged updates, up until recent. What is wrong with them lately?
Anyway, as soon as I have news in the afternoon I will let you know

Front Row Bug - Reproducible

I wanted to log a bug somehow but couldn't find an official way to do it. I have a basic 10.5 installation modified only with the video codec pack Perian.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Attach a MiniDVI - DVI connector to an external source (plasma TV here)
2) Close the Macbook lid
3) Turn front row on with the apple remote
4) Watch a movie (using Perian's h.264 decoder here)
5) Stop movie, open lid, disconnect MiniDVI
6) Dock displays, rest of screen is black. Computer is unresponsive to most commands
Fix it suckas.
Much appreciated when you do.

_http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html_
Joe

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Front Row has not been included in OS X since Lion, it was dropped over a year ago. While some people liked it it simply wasn't that popular. To get similar functionality you can get an AppleTV and have some real integration.

Front Row GONE after A&I...

Hey y'all,
Just tried activating Front Row - didn't work with the remote or the keyboard (on my MacBook).
Had a look in Core Services, and the Front Row app is gone!
I did an Archive & Install a few days back, and Front Row always worked before them (heck, because it was INSTALLED and THERE)...
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Argh!

I'm am having the same problem. I just did an Archieve and Install on a Mac Mini.
Front Row app is gone. It is still in the Core Services folder of the previous System but not in the new one.
Doing a search for it does not show anything except the old .plist file.
I guess I'll give Apple a call...
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Front Row is missing

Who can tell me how to get front row back.. the remote or command-esc won't open it.
I think I lost it after reinstalling Mac OS X (on the advice of the apple helpline, to solve some problems I had)
Thanks

If you re-install Mac OS X, then you might lose Front Row. After you startup and log in, you should be able to put your Mac OS X install disk in the drive and you'll see an "Install Bundled Software Only" option. When you get to the Installation Type window, you should be able to customize the installation and uncheck everything except Front Row.
-Doug

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How to Use Pacifist to Replace Deleted or Missing OS X Components
Insert the OS X Installer DVD into the optical drive. Use a simple utility like TinkerTool to toggle invisibility so you can see invisible items. Alternatively, open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder and at the prompt enter the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles Yes
Press RETURN.
To turn off the display of invisible files repeat the above command substituting No for Yes.
The install packages are located in the /System/Installation/ folder on the DVD.
Download the shareware utility Pacifist from VersionTracker or MacUpdate. Use it to extract a fresh copy of the missing item(s) from the file archives on your OS X installation DVD. The file archives are in the /System/Installations/ folder (use Go to Folder option in the Go menu of the Finder.)
Here are Four Basic ways to use Pacifist (courtesy of George Orville.)
A. Drag a .pkg icon onto the Pacifist window .....proceed to step 7.
B. Click on “Open Package ....” and navigate to package desired and click “Open” in the open/save window.....proceed to step 7.
C. Insert Mac OS X installer CD and when it mounts, navigate to .... Menu->Go->Go to Folder.
In the path field enter or paste ....
/Volumes/disc name/System/Installation/Packages (where disc name is the name of the CD/DVD that you inserted.
• Click on the "Go" button .....
• Drag a .pkg to Pacifist..... proceed to step 7.
The package you'll need will have to be discovered by trial and error, but for most applications you should start with the Essentials.pkg and/or Additional Essentials.pkg.
D. Insert your Mac OS X install disk 1 .... and open Pacifist.
1. In Pacifist, select "Open Mac OS X Install Packages" ... dialog may appear asking for disk 2, then disk 3 and finally disk 1 again.... {if DVD is not used)...If “Stop Loading” is selected...the procedure will stop!!!
2a. When loading is complete, a new window appears, click the triangle to display contents of each package...Select item and proceed to step 7.
2b. or click the “Find” icon in the Pacifist window and type the name of the software you need.
3. In the list that comes back, click the top most entry for the item that you want. ..... that is the one for the English language.
4. On the top of the Pacifist window, click “verify” .... you will probably be prompted for your password.
5. Enter checks for.... “verify permissions” and “verify file contents.” and click “verify” ....enter password when prompted.... you will get back output which may look like this:
20 files were scanned.
20 of 20 files were present on the hard disk.
0 of 20 files had file permissions that did not match those specified in the package.
0 of 20 files had checksums that did not match those specified in the package.
6. Click “close”. Go to step 7.
Extract or Install........
7. In the Toolbar (upper left), you now have the option to extract or install. Click a file in the lower list and those two icons will be enabled.
8. If “Extract to...” is selected.... navigate to the location where the file will be placed, select “choose”, select “extract” in new dialog that appears,authenicate , if prompted, click “OK”.
9. In the next dialog, click “Extract”.
10. If “Install” is selected... dialog will appear with the location/path of the installed software. Click “Install”
11. Type in your password, click “OK”
• Pacifist will begin to extract files.
12. In steps 8/10ß.... you also have the choice to “cancel”
Notes.....
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Stop
Leave original alone
Update ..... Default selection
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How do I uninstall Front Row Enabler (Andrew Escobar) ??

hey everybody
im on a powerbook g4 (power pc) and on 10.4.7
i did that stupid andrew escobar - Front Row Enabler so I could have Front Row on my non-infared powerbook.
it seemed like a cool idea for awhile, now i am in desperate need to update to 10.4.11.
it says in many forums that if you install any 10.4.8 - 10.4.11, front row's bezel patches will crash your computer into a blue screen and you will not be able to login.
i am nervous to update, but i am in desperate need to. does anyone here know how to uninstall this Front Row Enabler? if you would be so kind, that would be great.
thanks,
smitt

actually i answered my own question
i located the front row app, deleted it
then i redownloaded my 10.4.7 PPC pkg from Apple
then using pacifist (free DL at versiontracker) i extracted the 2 bezel files (that front row enabler patched to get Front Row to work on a non-Front Row working machine)
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Manually Uninstalling Front Row:
1. Delete Front Row (/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app).
2. Download Mac OS X Update 10.4.7 Combo PPC from Apple.
3. Open the disk image
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5. Use Pacifist to open the Mac OS X Update Installer package file (which ends in .pkg)
6. Search for “bezel” and install only these two specific files folders:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BezelServices.framework/
/System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/
7.Restart.

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