Front Row issue

Hi all,
I currently have an issue with front row video playback.
When I am playing AVI movies only through frontrow on the left hand side of the screen is a large white flickering bar.
When I play these same files through VLC it doesn't happen but through Realplayer, QT and more annoyingly Frontrow it does.
Every other format is fine
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

thejman
Frontrow uses Quicktime, so if you sole the problem in QT you'll solve the problem.
avi is a hold all for a wide variety of codecs. What's likely going on here is that QT is having trouble with the particular codec. What might work is to install Perian, which adds a large range of codecs to QT and increases the chances that it will play properly.
Regards
TD

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