Mac mini: eyetv & front row

Hi,
This is my first mac in over a decade, which I bought to use a s a media center, with my elgato eyetv 200.
Can Front Row see the eyetv recordings? My goal is to configure eyetv to save to the right format in the right location, so that front row automatically finds our tv shows.
If someone could please help me answer these questions:
1) Are Front Row and eyetv compatible? (please say yes this is why I bought the mini)
2) What file formats do FrontRow and eyetv have in common?
3) Do files have to be in a specific location for Front Row to find them?
4) How do you manage Front Row? Is it a service, or an application? It's not in the Applications directory.
I welcome any corrections to my jargon, as most of my experience is with Win32.
Many thanks.
mac mini dual core Mac OS X (10.4.5)
mac mini dual core   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Thanks for the suggestion, popsicle. I'll try your recommendation before giving up FrontRow, since it's time for an external HD anyway.
For future reference, this is a suggestion from from elgato tech support, may be interesting to others: they suggest using MediaCentral as an alternative to FrontRow...
EyeTV records MPEG Transport Streams - the worldwide standard for digital TV, including HDTV.
QuickTime has poor MPEG support, and doesn't support Transport Streams at all.
So, FrontRow is very limited when it comes to MPEG video.
Record in EyeTV, then export using "MPEG-4". If your EyeTV recordings are set for MPEG-4 in the Devices > Encoding preferences, then try "MPEG-4 AV" as the export.
There is no EyeTV integration with FrontRow. Apple doesn't want that at this time, since they don't offer any plugins or ways to play more MPEG content.
MediaCentral is a free alternative that supports EyeTV.
mac mini dual core Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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