Front Row Scrolling Error

When scrolling the Front Row menu screens with my Apple Remote, the
every other line is skipped. I've had this problem for several years
with my iMac (iSight) 20 " and have been unable to get any leads
regarding the solution of the problem.
Any insights greatly appreciated,

It went down or up two at a time with no pause while it behaved normally when using the keyboard. After pruning my hard drive of little used applications and files prior to migrating to my new iMac 27" i7, this aberrant behavior stopped and the problem on the iMac G5 is now resolved. Unfortunately, I don't know what the conflicting app was. Thanks for your response Watanabe-san.

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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?

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FR (1.2.1) refuses to run slideshows for me even though I can see changing thumbnails on the left-hand side of the screen. I keep getting "communications errors". Rebuilding my library hasn't helped. Can anyone help, please?
17 Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Yes, I'm having the same problem. Everything updated via Software Update, and Front Row works properly with everything except iPhoto.
I get the communication error message when trying to view photos, even though it can 'see' all the iPhoto folders, and also displays preview photos on the menu screen.
Would love to know if anyone has a fix yet.
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Hi all... My FrontRow keep crashing on me, I only just got my iMac 2 days ago... Should I take it back? Also I watched a DVD on FrontRow and that was fine, half way through I stopped it turned off the computer and went away... Anyway coming back I turned on the computer and DVD Player opened up to play the DVD, now If I go into FrontRow it see's there is a DVD in the computer, but doesn't play it... I click play the screen goes black for about a minute and then FrontRow quits... Any ideas anyone?

Same here, I use a Mac Mini as a media centre with Elgato EyeTV and Front row, it's great, but for the bugs, there were plenty in Tiger, and plenty in Leopard too. The DVD playing in front row is terrible as it plays through quicktime/tunes, It would be better if it uses the DVD player software. The DVD menus rarely work correctly with the Apple remote in Front Row, I reported this as a bug ages ago.
I have also had one crash of Front Row, especially after waking from sleep.
Try removing the com.apple.frontrow.plist file from your Library/Preferences folder in both the main Library folder of the hard disk, and your Home Directory. Also, Delete the Caches folder of your Home Directory/Librray folder and reboot. Good luck!

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.

An Error Occurred - Photos on Front Row

Hi, I really hope someone can help me....
Whenever I try to show photos on Front Row, the message comes up "an error occurred" Press play/pause to exit front row.
I think I must have some corruption in my iPhoto library so I have tried the following:
Re-building the library, thumbnails etc.
Deleting the last 10 events (since the problem occurred)
Emptying trash
Deleting all albums and slideshows
All to no avail.
I have tried creating a new user account and opening the library in that and using Front row to confirm it wasn't user account settings, same problem again. But if I create a new library with just a few photos in it, it works fine in Front Row on both user accounts.
This has all started happening since I moved from a mac mini to a 27" iMac, the photo library is on an external drive and worked fine like that with the mini but not the iMac. I have tried copying it onto the iMac hard drive in case it was the external drive causing the problem but that doesn't seem to have made any difference. I did change to snow leopard around the same time, would this have anything to do with it maybe?
I have over 16000 photos in my library and have spent hours tagging them, geo-tagging, updating faces etc so I really don't want to have to rebuild the library from scratch manually.
Any clues?
Thanks

Well given that the problem doesn't occur in the new Library it does point the finger solidly at some form of corruption in the main library.
What format is the external disk?
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

Front row error with IPhoto 6

When i'm using front row, and finish watching a slide show that I made with IPhoto, then select Library to see the slidshow of all my photos, it causes an error. It says "IPhoto is not responding. Press the play/pause button to return to the desktop". And when i return to the desktop, IPhoto opens, and the Library is selected under source on the left, but on the right it's trying to show a slideshow, but the image preview is black, and there are no thumbnails of the photos in the slideshow up top. So i click on Last Roll, or another album, but it is still showing the same black preview with no thumbnails. But when i click on the slideshow I last played, the preview loads, and all of the thumbnails are back, and basically it goes back to normal.
I provided all the details i could, if you need more info, just ask. This is the first problem i've had with my macbook, im still so glad i bought it.
MacBook2,1 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Try deleting the Front Row preference file, com.apple.frontrow.plist.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Moved front row to trash and deleted in error. How do I get front row back on?

Front row was moved to trash and deleted trash in error. How do I get front row back?

Front Row is one of the awesome applications that require an OS reinstall to get back.
Or if you don't want to do that you can always use Pacifist. http://www.charlessoft.com/
It essentially lets you pull out specific information from your install disc so you don't have to reinstall everything, just what you need.
Can you still open it with Command+Esc though? You may not have fully removed it.

Hi ! guys i've recently upgraded my macbook pro from snow leopard to lion.....now my front row app. is missing........is this a lion upgrade or a error.....pls help!!

i've recently upgraded my mac book's os from snow leoopard to lion.......nd i've noticed that front row app. is missing........i miss its liquid graphics of displaying entertainment stuff.........is this an os upgrade or error ....

No. There is no Front Row as part of Lion. But you might like to visit: Install Front Row on Lion.

In Front Row - error connecting

Sometimes in Front Row, when trying to play music is says error was encountered when communicating with iTunes.
Anyone know why?
Yes, iTunes was open
Thanks
Rich

This message appears if you are trying to play a track that Front Row can't find. Here is a Help article about this:
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Front Row has an error finding iPhoto library

I recently transferred files from my old iMac to my new one. It runs Leopard and everything works on FR except Photos. I updated everything when got the new computer. iPhoto works fine and the iPhoto library is where it should be. When I choose photos on fR it states that "An error has occurred" What gives and please help.
Thank you

Read the instructions and found the AlbumData.xml file, but couldn't get my browser to tell me where the error was (step 2)
"The solution…
1.Close iPhoto…
2.Locate where in the AlbumData.xml file the invalid data is (the error [in your web browser] should report at what line the invalid XML is
3.Open the AlbumData.xml file with an application like TextWrangler and go to the specific line with the error - in my case the problem was with one of my keywords (i.e. “List of Keywords”);
4.Open iPhoto and highlighting the offending data - re-enter it thereby replacing the invalid data;
Close iPhoto
5.Delete AlbumData.xml
6.Re launch iPhoto - make a change (e.g. create a new folder or album) [this last step forces iPhoto to republish the AlbumData.xml file]
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the error could have been, I assume, in any part of the file not just the keywords;
you can’t edit the AlbumData.xml file directly since iPhoto never reads the file - only writes to it, so any changes will be overwritten.
A word about the AlbumData.xml file
iPhoto generates the AlbumData.xml file (inside its library folder). This file is only used by other applications, such as Front Row and Aperture (iPhoto never reads this file), so that they can locate photos and albums in the photo library. In other words the file is not used by iPhoto rather it is created by iPhoto to aid integration.
The fact that there are cases where iPhoto will write out malformed XML to the AlbumData.xml file, causing other applications to be unable to read the file correctly seems perverse - iPhoto should never be allowed to do this."
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Front Row/iPhoto Communication Error

I've got a new MacBook Pro and I've updated to OS10.4.6, iPhoto 6.0.2 and Front Row 1.2.1 Whenever I try to access the iPhoto library or any album through Front Row, it hangs and I get the following message: "An error was encountered while communicating with iPhoto". Has anyone else had this problem?

Yeah... it happens every time. I have absolutely no problem with iPhoto. Slideshows and all work perfectly. Front Row works as expected with everything except iPhoto. mmmmm.... Maybe I should re-install iPhoto.

Front Row doesn't shows my photos - error message

I'm having problems with front row when I try to show images. When I choose this option, front row shows an error message similar to this: Front Row encountered a Problem, press play to continue. When I press play, it exits the program.
I reinstalled the MacOs and it kept the problem. I created a new user, and on this front row is working.
Any help??
Tks

No help.
I assume you're using Aperture ?
Even Aprture 3,1,1 doesn't fix this problem.

Scrolling titles and speed up Movie folder access in Front Row?

I have two questions regarding Front Row and have been unable to find an answer for them yet.
1. A number of my movies/TV shows have very long but similar titles. When I select one, is there a way for the title to scroll and show the whole title much like a long song title scrolls across the screen of my iPod?
2. Accessing my "Movies" folder takes a long time. Is there some way to speed this up, possibly a cache folder that may have its permissions messed up?
Cheers.

YES GET THE UPDATES!
i had the same problem and it happened after i updated my itunes to 7.6 (to support video rentals). what you have to do is make sure you have ALL the latest updates - including front row and OS X updates. as soon as i did that - everything was back to working order. you can update by clicking your system preferences and choosing updates. it will automatically inform you of any outdated software you may have.
hope this helps.
cheers.

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