Front Row is Stuck

My Front Row is stuck on one picture from iPhoto and all I can do is press F9 or F10 to see particular applications, and from there us Front Row to launch iTunes, but that is it. I cannot stop iPhoto and I cannot force quit Front Row. I could force quit iPhoto but am afraid to lose a book that I have been putting together in iPhoto. As a recent (and otherwise extremely happy) Mac convert, does anyone have any hints? Would iPhoto save recent changes automatically? Any other way to quit front row?
iMac Intel Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Thanks, but unfortunately I could not actually get to the utility page to start the activity monitor. In any case, iPhoto finally crashed by itself but then I lost all of my work in iPhoto.

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Stuck with Front Row

My mother was trying to email two simple jpg files from "Documents" folder. I don't know what she clicked. She ended up with Front Row stuck on her screen. Could not exit. Mouse did not work, neither was the keyboard. She also remembered hearing excessive HDD scratching.
When she described the problem, I did not understand because I've never seen Front Row. I had to drive clear across the town to help her out.
I had to yank off the power in the back. Then boot. Everything is a o.k. now.
How could one end up with Front Row? Especially from an email environment?

Alex DeSlim wrote:
My mother...
How could one end up with Front Row? Especially from an email environment?
That is expected behavior from mothers
btw - instead of "yanking out" the main, you could just hold down the power button on the Mac until it shuts off.
-mj

2010 Mac Mini, Front Row and 5.1 Audio

I recently bought one of the new 2010 Mac mini's for my home theater. I have video going to my TV through HDMI. (I do not use the TV for audio.) I'm feeding audio to my receiver via optical. The problem I'm having is with 5.1 audio through Front Row. I've installed Perian and enabled AC3 passthrough. 5.1 audio works great when I play a video in iTunes (it also works with eyeTV). When I try to play the same movies through Front Row, I'm stuck with stereo audio and see no way to change it. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

I too have the latest mini, hooked up to a Denon receiver via pass-through HDMI.
I am not an audiophile in terms of setting up this stuff and just want to know what I need to do to get the optimum performance out of this mini, audio wise.
When I go to Audio MIDI Setup app, my receiver (DENON-AVAMP) is listed next to the "source" button. I have no clue about channels, bits, etc. When I click on the "Configure Speakers" button I am presented with different configurations so I selected "Multichannel" versus "Stereo". And I can see where you can test all 5 speakers and subwoofer, but I just don't know which "format" I am supposed to select.
The 5.1 mapping is shown when I select 8 channel/16 bit, 8 channel/20 bit, or 8 channel 24 bit. I can click on each speaker in this map and it tests properly no matter which one of the above combinations I select. Just not sure which one I am supposed to be using.
All I know is my Denon is a 5.1 system and all this works perfectly (getting 5.1 sound) with my Playstation 3 hooked up the same way to the Denon.
Does anybody know the correct settings to output 5.1 sound from this Mac Mini?
Thanks guys!

Front Row on an External Display

**Note that this is for Leopard's Front Row and only may not apply to Tiger's**
Here's an explanation of the bugs/irksomes now facing Front Row
1. The screensaver option can be buggy so go to preferences within Front Row to disable it.
2. Whatever screen you use front row on, the other will be black.
3. Front Row does not play video in mirroring mode, period.
4. Front Row, when opened, will display on whatever monitor is set as your primary display at that time.
5. Even after exiting it, if you check it the activity monitor it will still run in the background for 30 minutes (not sure on that time frame).
6. If you open it up again before it is shutdown, it will try to display on whatever was set as the primary display when it was first launched.
Okay, now that you understand that, here is somethings to keep in mind
-When you initially open it, the settings get stuck, so if you opened it with the wrong display set as your primary monitor, just quit it in the activity monitor, switch the main monitor in your display system preferences, and then reopen it.
-You can trick it to display on your secondary display by enabling mirror-mode, opening front row, exiting front row (not quiting), disabling mirror mode, and lastly reopening front row. Effectively, it gets stuck to display on the external display and does so once you turn mirroring off. This isn't even remotely elegant but is my preferred method.
-If you have your external display connected while your computer is asleep, pressing a button on your remote will automatically wake it and use the external display as your primary/only monitor. This means that Front Row will display on your TV very easily if you put your computer to sleep then wake it with the remote BUT you must always be mindful that if you had opened it recently, you may have to quit it first.
The only last suggestion I have is that if you want quick and easy access to quitting front row, you can create an applescript to quit it with this
tell application "Front Row" to quit
If anyone knows how to change primary displays using applescripts please post as ideally a script could be created that would just make sure Front Row was quit, switch displays, then would open it streamlining the entire process.
Well really ideally apple would make Front Row a little more dynamic with the option to display on the external display and smart enough to know which one that is but this problem existed in the last version too and they never fixed it then so....

Well,just putting the display in sleep mode won't work as, for some reason I don't understand, sleeping the display turns off the external monitor.
Thinking a little more clearly now, the method of sleeping the computer only works for the portable Macs as the lid must be down while it wakes up for it to work.

Remove certain movies from Front Row

Hi guys!
I appreciate any advice or guidance on the issue; thank you in advance.
I have my movies in iTunes; they play fine in FR. A good chunk of them have terrible resolution from being compressed over and over with bad setting choices, mainly digitized vhs footage from home movies. Anyways, these movies look pretty bad.
Luckily, I have the originals on a external hd. They are mostly .avi and are in a better quality. I've realized I can just bring these into my "movies" folder, and they work fine, thanks to Perian. I do not do this though because I don't want to occupy space on my main hd, so I just make aliases and bring them into the "movies" folder.
Now, this is okay with me, but I'm a picky guy, and I like my style...
I want to change the metadata so that I can show "artwork" rather that a frame from the movie, plus have a description etc. On a side note if anyone knows of a better way then I am doing it, I am all ears!
So, I open the movies in Quicktime, and save as a reference movie. I then bring the reference movie into MetaX (which lets me add artwork, etc...) Then I can just pop those into iTunes.
Now, this is where it gets tricky/weird. I realize that:
1. I can drop these files in Itunes.
2. This takes up space on my main hd (which I do not want if I do not have to)
3. I now have duplicates (a low rez and a good quality version)
4. Syncing my iPod will bring the reference moves along "for the ride"
ok, so I can just choose which movies to sync to my ipod by checking which movies I want in the setting menu, so no worry about the reference files coming with.
I was wondering is there a way to make an alias of the reference file so that it doesn't take up any space on my main hd?
Irregardless of that situation, I am still stuck with 2 versions of my movies in iTunes.
I want the poorer quality movies on my iPod and iTunes, but only my good quality movies in Front Row. Is there a way to remove the poor quality moves from Front Row while still keeping them in iTunes?
Okay, one last question, which probably should have been the first one. What is the difference between a reference movie and an alias, outside of being able to change meta data? Is a reference movie the equivalent to the "box" that a dvd comes in? You know, it has some pictures on it, cast, description etc...?
If I bring a reference file onto my iPod, will it bring the original (good quality) movie instead? Or have I now got some sort of super awesome compressed version of the movie without any quality loss (or is this some sort of fantastic dream)?
Thank you for any advice. I'm sorry that this is a little long-winded.
I expect someone to replay with "No." as the answer. LOL
Thanks everybody,
Ethan

You're kind of on your way with the solution.
I would like to have posters for my good quality film in itunes+FR, but not on my ipod.
I want the low quality ones on my ipod, but not in my front row.
I've come up with a semi-solution so far.
I've brought the good ones into itunes, with the "copy files to itunes music folder" unchecked. I changed all the info in itunes, and posters etc.... Then I marked all of my low rez movies as tv shows, in a show called "movies"
it is not an ideal solution, but what I am really after is having a "clean" look in itunes when you choose "movies". This might be as close as I can get.
I would prefer something better if at all possible. But I can live with this if I have to. My main concern is that my "tv shows" folder is overflowing with shows. Luckily, they are grouped together by show, and not just in random order.
One thing that would really help, I do not know if this is possible. This would be the ideal solution: if you could create a "show name" folder in the "movies"tab (in itunes/FR)(not to be confused w/ the "movies" in finder) as you can in the "tv shows" tab in itunes.
I've found that because front row has a lack of preferences, and itunes's preferences do not give you enough control; this just turns into a mess.
iLife should be simple, hence the "i" in iLife. LOL
Ethan

Front Row Scrolling Issue

Hello. Just looked at the archives for this problem. Doesn't look like any posts on it since Nov. 2009 but it was never solved. So, I'm reopening it in hopes of finding an answer.
In Front Row while scrolling through my movies library the selection will jump back to the last played item unless I can quickly select a new item I'm stuck on the old one. Very odd. Pretty new problem as I've not been using Front Row much until lately. Of note is that it has a hard time figuring out what the preview should be for the selected item.
This is on my MBP with 2gb ram and 500gb hd.

Oops. Spoke too soon. I haven't solved the issue completely.
Ok, more info:
When I first start FR it works flawlessly. Then, after I select and play a movie and it plays completely (I chose a 5 minute Pixar short) then go back and try to scroll through to find another option, then I get preview errors and the selection jumps to the last played item. Repairing permissions only works if you quite FR and then restart. So I tried just quitting and restarting FR and it solved the problem for the first show then it came back after the video completed its run. So. The work around is to quit and restart FR after every video. That kinda *****.
I checked the console and got this:
2/14/10 10:22:13 AM com.apple.RemoteUI[1016] CoreAnimation: rendering error 501
Don't know what that means or how to fix it.
Any thoughts?

Viewing iMovie events using Front Row looks stretched

I imported some standard def footage (4:3) using iMovie.
When viewing the resulting "dv" files in the "iMovie Events" folder, they look a bit stretched horizontally.
Anyone know why this is?
They look good playing them full screen in iMovie.
They play fine in Quicktime.

I called Apple, but got stuck. They said that iMovie and Quicktime do things that Front Row does not (like adjust for certain things related to aspect ratio I think). They said that Front Row uses the aspect ratio from the original device. I imported these standard def 4:3 mini dv tapes using my Canon HV20 camcorder, not the Sony TRV 30 I recorded them on. I wonder if this i the issue? If so, is there any way to change "the original device setting" for aspect ratio in the dv file?
Here is what "Movie Inspector" in Quicktime shows for the format:
Format: DV, 720 x 480 (640 x 480), Millions
DV, Stereo, 32.000 kHz
But, when I go to Movie Properties->Video Track all 3 items (normal size, display size, and scaled size) show 640x480.
What is the 720 in the Format from Movie Inspector? Can I change it?

Mini, Front Row, and HDMI...

Picked up a new Mini to merge our server (iTunes, iPhoto, et al were being served off my laptop, which was fine only when I was at home) with our Apple TV. Mostly a positive thing... moving iTunes and iPhoto onto the Mini went smoothly, the Mini plugged right into the power cable and HDMI cable that were there for the Apple TV, so that went wonderfully. Outputting to a 42" Samsung LED-backlit LCD in our family room.
Our only big downside right now: if we leave Front Row running, and turn off the TV, when we turn it back on later we're greeted with a solid blue screen that doesn't respond to the remote, the keyboard or mouse... we've had to reboot twice in the two days we've been set up like this. For now, we just have to remember to turn off Front Row... if we're on the normal Finder, it doesn't seem to have this problem.
Is this a known HDMI/Mini/Front Row issue, where it gets into a bad state if the TV is turned off, or something particular to my set up? I was kinda hoping this would be our entertainment system moving forward, it's certainly happier in other ways (gives our family a nice central place to plug in iPods, iPhones, iPads, expands easily, etc, etc)...
Thanks in advance!!!
PS: Our other minor gripe, for those who care, is just Front Row feeling like a step back from the Apple TV interface (which used to look like Front Row when we first got it, but got better)... I'd switch us to Plex, but it doesn't play our TV shows and movies off iTunes, so I'm hoping Apple will update Front Row someday to be something happier.

So far so good on the Mini... the down side (other than the hanging blue evil screen) is just how clunky Front Row is. The Apple TV interface wasn't perfect, but it was much cleaner than the Front Row interface.
We were watching Netflix streaming through Plex last night... Plex is awesome, I'd absolutely use it full-time and forget Front Row except we own a lot of movies and TV shows we've purchased through iTunes, and Plex can't play DRM'ed video. Because of that, right now we're using Plex for things like Netflix, Daily Show, Hulu, etc, and Front Row for our purchased media.
We copied our libraries over onto the Mini, consolidating them along the way.
With our previous setup, we had movies and TV shows on an external drive that was connected to my laptop, streaming to the Apple TV... which worked fine except when I needed to take my laptop somewhere, then the family was stuck watching whatever was actually living on the Apple TV.
Music, a lot of it was on my iTunes, but my wife and daughters had stuff on their iTunes on their machines... and with a plethora of iPhones, iPods, and iPads in the house now, we found we weren't using our laptops as media devices as much.
We started talking about collecting all our material (music, TV, movies, photos, etc) and putting it all on one device... then the Mini came out, and it looked perfect to just replace the Apple TV and be our central hub for everything!
So far, it's great... full 1080p, fast little box, moving the material over was painless, everything's syncing there now... just want a Front Row replacement that'll play iTunes video, and want to be able to leave that thing up all the time and expect it to be there when I turn the TV on.

Front Row can't slideshow same named album

This is what i noticed and thought i'd just share my problems. In front row, i use folders to organize my artwork, so like Project A will have a ProjectAfolder and have multiple albums: illustration, concept, roughs, etc... projectBfolder also has the same setup: illustrations, concepts, etc.
So in Front Row, if i goto Project B and select to slideshow the Illustration Album, but it'll play whichever folder was named Illustration first (in this example, photos from Project A would play).
So i take it same name albums is a no-go for Front Row. Anyone else have the same experience? I'd go and rename em all, but i have too many project folders that i'd rather just slide show straight from Iphoto than goto Front Row.

For clarity, the problem is that Front Row can't open iTunes in the background as it always did before. So it can't access the library for playing songs and movies, reason why it remains stuck when I try to do so.
I have Front Row 1.3.1 (the last version available for Tiger users, right?) and iTunes 8.0.2. My system is fully updated and kept well. So I think there is a kind of compatibility bug between Front Row 1.3.x and iTunes 8, in fact Leopard users with Front Row 2 installed are not experiencing troubles.
Hope someone at Apple can do a check on Front Row 1.3 and solve this with a fix.

Front Row: Becomes runaway process after using

Perhaps someone can verify if this is a wide spread problem, or just my machine.
I use FR to playback video files and music in my home office; however, after "closing" FR, the "Front Row" process runs away. Comsuming 100% of a processor and generally slowing down the system.
I end up force quitting the FR app and the system returns to normal -- I've rebooted without effect.
But even after quitting the FR app, pressing "Menu" on the remote will bring it back up and work normally, until you close it again.
Any ideas?
Tried all the usual fix, permissions, plist, reboot...
iMac 20" Intel 2.0GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Kevin Arnold, thanks for the tip on force-quitting through Activity Monitor. It worked and freed the CPU resources -- Plus I can get back into Front Row and it seems to work (until the next crash...) so maybe now I won't have to restart everytime this happens!
When I say Front Row crashes, I mean that it hammers the CPU in the background. It never actually crashes with an error message, it just fails to quit sometimes (often) when going back to the desktop. Also on occassion, FrontRow HAS started 'hammering the CPU' while still running in the foreground and I get stuck inside FrontRow unable to return to the desktop; but in this case, apple-Q WILL work within Front Row to kill the app and return everything to normal.
My FrontRow just crashed again a minute ago, so I ran the % sample Front\ Row 5 terminal command you posted earlier for someone else, and the result said 'bash: no such process'. **yes, I ran the command before force-quitting through application monitor**
Here are the last few lines from FrontRow.Crash.Log:
Versions/A/Libraries/libGLSystem.dylib
0x97355000 - 0x97362fff com.apple.agl 2.5.6 (AGL-2.5.6) /System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Versions/A/AGL
0x97463000 - 0x9747dfff com.apple.AppleVAFramework 2.4.24 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleVA.framework/Versions/A/AppleVA
0x976ab000 - 0x976c1fff com.apple.AppleShareClient 1.5.1 /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClient.framework/Versions/A/AppleShareClie nt
0x976cb000 - 0x97709fff com.apple.AppleShareClientCore 1.5.1 /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework/Versions/A/AppleShare ClientCore
0x9781b000 - 0x97a01fff com.apple.dvdplayback 4.6.6 (4660) /System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A/DVDPlayback
0x985a2000 - 0x9864cfff com.apple.applescript 1.10.6 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleScript.framework/Versions/A/AppleScript
0x987e1000 - 0x987e3fff com.apple.BezelServicesFW 1.3.7 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BezelServices.framework/Versions/A/BezelServi ces
0x9908e000 - 0x99190fff com.apple.audio.units.Components 1.4.1 /System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/MacOS/CoreAudio
I hope you can make sense of all that crash log mumbo jumbo.

Front Row no movie or music covers

I am using a mac mini in the bed room that I use to see movies that are being shared from the computer in my office. That computer is also being used to stream over to apple tv which works grate with no problems. Does any one know how I can get my mac mini to show all the movie and music covers. I can see them perfect on my apple tv but not on my mac mini. I don't even know if this is possible but if it is I would really like for it to work. I can stream movies to the mac mini perfect so there is no problems there. Does some one have any suggestions

you have to load them into iTunes to attach a cover to the file. Once they are in iTunes they will be automaticly displayed on front row with the cover.
this is a pain though, as front row will open a lot more file types than iTunes, so for the file types that iTunes cannot open, you will be stuck with no cover.

Is there a way to open Front Row without the remote?

I wonder, is there some keyboard shortcut that will open front row?
I ask because a while ago I was about to force-quit an application(cmdoptesc), and then I cancelled(esc) that and toggled to another application's window(cmd+tab), etc., all of this using only the keyboard. But because of the application that wasn't working right, things got slow, and after waiting a couple of seconds for the other window to appear... Fron Row just appeared in front of me!!!
I don't know if it was some keyboard shortcut that i accidentally pressed, or just a bug. Does enyone know?

Command + Escape
arrow keys
return
and escape to bail
good luck
-j

How Do I Use An External Drive Folder For Front Row???

I have recently bought a 1 TB external drive for my media vidoes and music and have moved all my files over to the external drive and want to use the new folders for movies on front row.
When i go to front row it only has movie folders found on my built in Harddirve, and no folders from the external drive. How to i select this drive to play movies on front row from the external drive?????

oh man thank you so much i was having a brain **** about how to run them on front row. I can't believe i didn;t think about that.
Thank you again
Jer

Remote for front row

I just upgraded to Leopard and was checking out Front Row. I can use the arrow keys to navigate but since I am on a Powerbook I have no remote or sensor to pickup one. I am curious if there are third-party remotes available for older Macs. I have an EyeTV Hybrid which came with a remote. Is it possible to use something like this with Front Row?

I too have a Powerbook running Frontrow and I just bought this off eBay for cheap. http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/errf1/ this is a remote made by Keyspan for Frontrow.

How to Delete Item from Front Row?

Someone sent me a short imovie project and it was automatically downloaded to my "Download" folder. When I opened Front Row, the project name it's right under "Movies" along with "iTunes Top Movies", "Theatrical Trailers" and "Movie Folder".
I then moved the project file from "Download" to another folder created under my "Movie" folder. When I went to Front Row again, the original project was still under the list in Movies, now it's also in "Movies Folder". So basically it's showing up twice in Front Row in different places.
I see that once I play the movie from my Movies folder directly from the folder, it's automatically set to Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Movies. So it's showing up in Front Row via iTunes, and it's also showing in Front Row via my Movies Folder.
I just want to organize Front Row so that I don't have a long list of projects immediately under "Movies" in Front Row. I want these projects to neatly go in one personal movie folder only.
Is there a way to reorganize the items list in Front Row?
How do I delete the item that's originally placed under "Movies" in Front Row?

Assets are organized in various apps - primarily iTunes for most of us.
That said, you may benefit from this series:
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/59317.html

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