New front row in leopard ...

I've upgrade my tiger into leopard, now i have a new front row, very nice, but in DVD playback I prefer the time line of tiger because every time i stop the film i can seen the time remaing to the end, and biggest font was better for looking the Film from my bed !

rentals and a new rental-focused gui seem to be the only update right? I am not seeing anything leading me to believe that the appletv experience is going to be expanded for those who rip their own movies and use it that way.
verdict is still out on the 5.1 pass thru as well. how well will it work for people who do their own encoding and how many of the "some" hd movies will include it?

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Front Row in Leopard 'sees' DVD Video TS but wont play t ;-/

Ok this was a surprise but Front Row now sees Video TS folders, correctly then says opening DVD player then after a minute or so says there is an error press play/pause to exit Front Row...
So nearly there... anyoone else getting it to play Video_TS ?
or is this a not there yet feature...

This is great! I have an external hard drive with all my ripped VIDEO_TS folders on it. It is connected to my Airport Extreme and on the network via Airdisk for sharing. The disk is called "DVDz". I made an alias of the disk and placed it in my Movies folder. For each movie on your disk, first create a folder with the name of the movie, e.g. "Gladiator". In the "Gladiator" movie folder, place a jpeg of the movie cover named "Cover" and a folder called "DVD". In that that "DVD" folder, place the VIDEO_TS folder. If you nest the folders in this fashion, the new Front Row in Leopard will browse your movies and show the cover. Hook up to a projector and 5.1 sound system and you have your Apple HTPC solution. I am loving this! Thanks for listening, Apple!

The new Front Row should take a backseat.

The Front Row on Leopard looks better, except for the fade-in/out effect instead of the desktop-being-pushed-back effect.
But its functionality has gone down. You can no longer resume movies or even leave the music on when you quit front row...
Is there anyway to get that functionality back on the new Front Row?? Its Apple, we should have everything, the looks and the works!
Its also a no-go on the feedback to apple... They don't have an option for Front Row.
If Apple people are reading this... you know what to do in 10.5.2!

arunjitsingh wrote:
The Front Row on Leopard looks better, except for the fade-in/out effect instead of the desktop-being-pushed-back effect.
But its functionality has gone down. You can no longer resume movies or even leave the music on when you quit front row...
Front Row appears to be a new application. The Front Row version supplied with remote control equipped Intel Macs seemed to call upon iTunes (and thence Quicktime) to do its heavy lifting. Thus iTunes helper would keep music playing after Front Row quit. The other feature you didn't mention you lost was that Front Row would play music wirelessly via Air Tunes and an Airport Express when it used iTunes. It also fails to use an external monitor for DVDs.
The new Front Row can be legally used by owners of Mac gear that doesn't have a remote control. This is a great leap forward for those who don't as yet have an Intel Mac, or who have a Power Mac. Plus Front Row now plays DVDs without invoking iTunes. It even plays DVDs from your hard drive (complete with cover art, if you add a jpg to the TS_Video folder). This is a great advantage for people living in the majority of countries where iTune Store does not offer movies at all. It would not surprise me to see further upgrades of Front Row fairly soon. Personally, I love it.

Does the new Front row features the same Podcasts blue markers on TV show?

Does the new Front row features the same Podcasts blue markers on TV show? As I'm using Tiger right now with Front-Row V1 that only show the blue markers on the Podcasts.
Not only that, but it also doesn't update the TV Shows counters when using front-row.
Another thing I wonder, its about Apple TV 2 (or whatever the name is) I'm using my Mini-MAC to watch iTunes Podcasts, TV Shows, Movies and DVD movies on my living room. Should I just get an Apple TV instead? Or with Leopard I can make it work just like Apple TV but with less restrictions? Right now I'm using an external 400 gig HD.
Thanks for any advice.

Bump.

Airport Express, Front Row, and Leopard - any expected fix date?

I've found a bunch of articles that discuss the problem of Front Row under Leopard not working with remote speakers via Airport Express. This worked well for everyone under Tiger.
I haven't found any projected fix dates from Apple ... any insight into this? Or is it common for Apple to leave these types of feature drops out there with no fix dates or realistic workarounds? I will say I have had very few problems with Apple gear, and I am a fan, but this problem impacts the major reason I put this multi-airport setup in place ...

If you search in this area you will find many threads on that topic.

I need sherlock and Front Row 1.3.1 Back! New Front Row is USELESS!

I need sherlock back, I used it all the time, now its missing!
, also the old Front Row 1.3.1 was AMAZING, the new one looks really bad and the fonts are too small to use from far away (as what it was intended for) I used it before now its just to hard to read from my bed and looks ugly too. I like the 4 animated Icons when you start front row, and also liked the animated preview of a movie instead of a frozen frame.
Apple downgraded a major part of what I use for $129
Please help me get the old front row and sherlock back from my tiger DVD's.

Computeradam wrote:
I need sherlock back, I used it all the time, now its missing!
, also the old Front Row 1.3.1 was AMAZING, the new one looks really bad and the fonts are too small to use from far away (as what it was intended for) I used it before now its just to hard to read from my bed and looks ugly too. I like the 4 animated Icons when you start front row, and also liked the animated preview of a movie instead of a frozen frame.
Apple downgraded a major part of what I use for $129
Please help me get the old front row and sherlock back from my tiger DVD's.
Well, you can install Tiger on an external drive and boot into it when you need to. I am NOT being sarcastic. I use Sherlock all the time and was disappointed to find him "retired" and back to bee keeping. Even MS still has Watson, don't they?
My G5 is dual boot - I planned it that way. One internal drive is Tiger, the other Leopard.
I will partition my external LaCie drives so that one partition will be a bootable Tiger clone, the rest of the partition for Leopard's TM.
The best of both worlds is to have both worlds, right? Then the decision becomes moot. Keep "Plan A" and "Plan B" and you can't lose.

Reinstall Front Row on Leopard?

Front row would not work for me anymore for some reason, a black screen would come up for about 2 seconds and then disappear. So I trashed it using AppZapper. I had planned on reinstalling it from the Leopard DVD, but it is not an app available to install in the optional install folder (which it should be). And when I tried just installing it via the Leopard installer I was told that I'd need to wipe my drive for Leopard to go any further. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Never mind, I still had all associated files for it in my Trash so out of desperation I just moved the app to the desktop. It worked. Not sure what happened, but at least I don't have to waste anyone's time.

Airport Express, Airtunes, and Front Row in Leopard

Ever since I upgraded to Leopard it seems that I can no longer play music through Front Row through my speakers plugged into my Airport Express. Has anyone else noticed this? Or is there something I'm doing wrong.

If you search in this area you will find many threads on that topic.

New Front Row, iTunes and Quick Time updater

For user that not aware, there is a new updater for mac which is Front Row 1.3, iTunes 7.0.0 and QuickTime 7.1.3.
For my self, I think the iTunes 7.0.0 is excellent, I found it helpfull to categorize the video and TVshow that I have into a big art image with all the titles next to it instead of showing all as list or as icon in previous iTunes. Not to mention that we can buy a full length dvd movie ($9.99).
I wish the price is the same as songs or regular video ($2.99)...lol
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
Check the link above or use your software updater on your apple menu bar.
Good Luck and Enjoy.

The Updates
A. iTunes
I like the new iTunes a lot, but my major problem is that my music videos (from iTunes store and other sources) are in my music library! When I am typing or on the internet, iTunes is in mini player mode. All of a sudden a video window pops up and starts playing (what else) a video. I don't like that. The music and video mix transfers over to the iPod also. The main reason I don't like it (on the iPod) is because the audio for a video is different than the original song. An example of this is, Don't Speak -by: No doubt.
B. Front Row
I always liked Front Row and don't really notice any changes to it. It used to be a little slow on the exit, but after the update works like normal again. Therefore, I assume the update for Front Row was for the inner workings of the application. No complaints here.
C. Quick Time
I don't really use Quick Time. I do most of my video watching in iTunes of Front Row because I don't have to pay Apple to watch stuff full screen with those applications. Although, most of my videos are in Quick Time format because it takes anywhere from two (2) too thirty (30) seconds for Front Row to load Windows Media Video files from my external HD. (I guess that IS a complaint for Front Row, but don't tell him. ^_^)
D. iPod v. 1.2
Nice! 1) I can adjust the screen brightness (to conserve battery life). 2) Quick scroll thinggy (I lack the technical jargon to describe it). 3) Screen has a little brightness while it's connected to my computer. 'Nuf said.
E. Summary
I update anything Apple tells me to. But I am having some regrets about iTunes. Nothing that is going to make me uninstall iTunes and reinstall it from a CD (say... the CD that came with my iPod). I have sent a suggestion to Apple, so if you don't like the way things are, I suggest you do the same because posting here will do little to get it fixed. To do it, go to the menu bar while in iTunes and click:
iTunes>Provide iTunes feedback
It should be something similar in Windows, if any of you guys and gals are reading this. Everything else is fine.

New Front ROW opinions

Hi Peeps
The new version of Front Row is great and far less buggy than the Tiger version but am I the only person who misses the entrance animation with the spinning icons and the sound? I loved the way the desktop used to fade and dissolve into black and then fade back in. It looked really flash and made the PC bods uber jealous - the simple fade to black in the new version is just too subtle.
Opinions please...

sigh...
update
I've just checked again and it has reverted to what i spotted originally, slideshows with playlists of more than one track don't work, but those with a single track do. Although last night I had no sound even from single track shows (and I wasn't muted!) the mac has been to sleep but not restarted and iphoto happens to have been open throughout.
The cursor also has a tendency to disappear after exiting front row, it reappears after clicking in a finder window or the desktop but not in some apps.

Front Row w/ Leopard

My AVI video files have no resume option.... which they used to have in Front Row with Tiger... arghhh... why is that and can it be addressed? Any comments will be appreciated! Thanks!

so there are no other options... this is the way it is? tough luck with the AVI files....

Front Row: no Audio in slideshows?

I made a slideshow in iPhoto and connected it with some music.
It worked fine in iPhoto.
Using Front Row I couldn't present the show, because there was no sound!
Support told me that in the new Front Row of Leopard sound is not supported for slideshows!!???
Can that be true?
Did someone make the same experience?
Is it possible to get the old Front Row back?

Nonsense, no problem here with the sound of a slideshow
I don't know about the people employed for support any more. Somebody else on this forum was told some similar fib by this so-called support. He was told that his Powerbook couldn't read dual-layer DVD's, which is absolute nonsense, as is your answer about Front Rows sound.
Is this Apple support you are talking about?
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Downgrade Front Row to 1.3 under Leopard...

If you guys like Leopard, but hate the new Front Row...then just downgrade Front Row.
Move 'front row.app' away from the /System/Library/CoreServices/ (to a safe folder if you want to go back)
Download:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/frontrow131.html
Mount image
Choose 'show package content'
Copy the Front Row.app file
Paste it in /System/Library/CoreServices/
Boom...front row 1.3 on Leopard. You don't even need to reboot.

That download does NOT contain any file named "Front Row.app".
Yes it does. It's inside Archive.pax.gz.
In addition, the entire download is 4.5MB and the Front Row.app is 7.6MB alone.
You have to unzip .dmg files to know how large the compressed package is. The .pkg file in the download is 5.5MB and Front Row.app inside Archive.pax.gz is 7.7MB.
EDIT:
Rune Staunskær: You are giving bad advice. Even if what you are suggesting works, it's more than likely that what will happen to people who downgrade in this manner will be exactly what happened to almost everyone who used the hack to install Front Row on unsupported machines last year when the OS was updated: Loss of functionality; loss of the use of other apps, and loss of menu bar items.
When you post hacks like this, you really should be prepared to inform people of the inherent risks (which you appear not to understand). The time it will take to recover from the problems this will likely cause later on makes your suggestion counterproductive, IMHO.
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Apple TV and Leopard's Front Row 2

Anyone using an AppleTV with Leopard yet? From what I understand, the new Front Row interface in Leopard is basically the aTV, and the new FR natively plays VIDEO_TS folders... Can we hope for the same in aTV?

Front Row in Leopard is actually much better for viewing Photos than an Apple TV, because it shows you your iPhoto 08 Events, complete with a number in brackets showing how many photos are in that Event.

Tiger's Front Row buggy in Snow Leopard

I never liked Leopard/Snow Leopard's Front Row. It felt very disconnected from the rest of the OS, namely in how it didn't interface with iTunes at all. So I installed Tiger's Front Row (version 1.3.1) in it's place. It does work, but it's buggier than I remember. Often it'll lag for a bit before doing something I told it to (such as enter a menu item/related), and other times it just stops responding altogether. I really don't want to go back to the new Front Row, but at the same time, I don't want to put up with these bugs. I'm fairly certain it's compatibility issues since it hasn't been supported since Tiger, but regardless, I want to know if there's anything I can do. Thanks in advance!

Have you tried Equinux's MediaCentral:
http://www.equinux.com/us/products/mediacentral/index.html
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