Playing iTunes TV show with Front Row

I'm having difficulties accessing my downloaded TV show from FRont Row. How do I access the TV show from my iTunes section of Front Row? It says the library does not contain any TV shows when attempted. Therefore I had to skip Front Row access to it and simply play it from iTunes. Thanks.

I'm having problems viewing TV shows too. If I click on a show to watch in FrontRow, the "status circle" (for lack of a more precise term) circles once and then I get nothing, not even a video preview next to the name. Anyone have an idea on how to fix this? I tried selecting all the video files in iTunes and choosing "Authorize Computer" but it didn't help. Strangely, if I first watch the video in iTunes, this sometimes helps.

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Itunes not working with Front Row

Hello.
I'm running Front Row (current version) along with the current version of itunes.
When I access my playlists in itunes it only allows me the choice of shuffeling the playlist. When I do select that I get a message saying "a problem has occured" and then Front Row will immediatly shut off.
How do I get Front Row to let me sleect any song in the playlist instead of only shuffeling it (i've already ensured sheffeling was turned off in itunes) and how do I fix that error message?
Thanks!

Tom_CAN,
I have the exact same problem.
All of my software is up to date.
Any help from the community would be appreciated.
Thanks!

When I watch tv shows in Front Row that I've bought off iTunes the audio gradually falls out of sync with the video. It does not happen with other files that I have converted into mp4s. Any ideas for fixing this? It's a huge bummer...

When I watch tv shows in Front Row that I've bought off iTunes the audio gradually falls out of sync with the video. It does not happen with other files that I have converted into mp4s. Any ideas for fixing this? It's a huge bummer...

I too have the same problem. The audio drop out of sync in about 5 sec in not uncommon for the audio to be 30+ sec behind video. Apple needs to fix this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its a joke, my iphone is all messed up after the last update as well. at one time not to long ago apple products and software were top rated, not so much any more, more and more problems are showing up and apple is unwilling or unalbe to fix the many issues. Apple needs to fix the audio sync problem, it not the computer hardware or other software it ITUNES!!!!, there is no workaround other then hitting pause and hitting pause and hitting pause to temp fix the problem.

Making play list of movies in front row

In iTunes I created playlists for music videos I downloaded from youtube. I can play them just fine on my iPod. How can I do that with Front Row? The videos show up in the "movies" section. The playlist I created in iTunes shows up, but there are no files showing in them. Can this be done or is this something an update needs to address. I hope this is an easy fix. Something tells me it may not be. Any help would be great.
Thank you.

Right now Front Row does not support video playlists. I think we can expect this in the future, as some of Apple's hardware (like the third generation iPod nano) support video playlists. I would suggest you send Apple some Mac OS X feedback and let them know this feature is important to you.
-Doug

Sony Bravia showing off Front Row is it real or rigged?

That's a Sony Bravia kdlv40a12u showing off Front Row on the new Mini's marketing pages (see link below). I know because I've got that model (there's a possibility it's the TV's smaller 32-inch sibling).
http://www.apple.com/macmini/frontrow.html
After my new Mini (duo) is done with its world courier tour I am hoping I'll just be able to plug it in (DVI to HDMI since there's no VGA socket on the TV anyway) and it'll work just as well the one on the Mini's marketing pages APPEARS to be working. BUT having read all of traffic about the difficulties people are having getting their HDTVs to plug and play nice out of the box, I am beginning to wonder. I read some of the press reports of the Intel Mini's launch and it was reported that Stevie's boys and girls were using the Bravia to show off the Mini in one or the "rooms". If anybody has successfully plugged and played with this combination, please post reassuance. If you've had to tweak with Displayconfigx or SwitchRes, please can you post your timings. If non of the above, I'll let you know how I get on. I have to admit to a sinking feeling since I did try with a PPC Mini and gave up after hours and hours of borrowing and guessing Displayconfigx settings.
Thanks
G5 and Power Book G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) Lots of other bits

Why couldn't it be the 26" model?
You should be fine - DVI to HDMI is simply a pin
format change - the signals are preserved so nothing
more expensive than some copper is needed for that
cable to work (That being said, some of the list
prices are staggering for DVI-HDMI cables)
Could be the 26". I was going by the size of the Mini next to it. Apparently SJ thinks they look "nice".
I've tested the 26" XBR model with a new intel mini -
works out of the box. (Other than turning off the
overscan which was enabled by default - I prefer to
see my dock and menu bar rather than have video fill
every pixel...)
Thanks for input (no pun intended given we are talking about DVI to HDMI!). The Mini is now in the Netherlands, so it's getting closer all the time. When it arrives I'll plug it in and let readers of this thread how it goes, looks etc. I too am not fanatical about filling every last pixel as long as those that are used are giving their all in terms of clarity.
Cheers

Having problems with front row (and the opticle drive)

I bought my macbook three days ago, and I'm already having problems. First off, I transfered music from my user profile on my old iMac G5 to the macbook via data DVD. My music collection had some purchaces from the itunes store, so I had to go through the authorization thing, and I can now play them just fine in the iTunes library, but the problem is, if I try to use the front row program to play my purchaced music, I get the message saying that I have to authorize it first. What the ****? Does anybody else have this problem? Also, like many other macbook users, I'm having problems with the opticle drive, such as getting cds to be recognized and other things of that nature.

I noticed that this problem started after I tried to use a software to unlock my drive's region...
I believe this is the problem. The VLC Media Player will usually play DVDs from other regions without changing the settings on your optical drive. You may need to reset your optical drive's firmware back to the original setting, make sure you have the region set for the one you'd prefer to use the most and then use VLC to play the other DVDs.
-Doug
P.S. After two years in the Front Row forum, I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone playing HDDVD_TS folders with Front Row. I'm not saying it won't work, but I'm not sure it's really supported either. I do have DVD Studio Pro myself, but I'll have friends or family staying with me for nearly the next month, so my evenings and weekends will be a bit full to try making one up for testing...

Tonnes of Music with Front Row

hey everybody. I was wondering if anyone knew how to solve my small issue with front row. since i only have a 40GB iPod, I have to de-select much of my library, picking and choosing which albums make the cut while im on the go. Im almost up to 80 GB of music in my iTunes library -- The problem Im having is that when you de-select a song in iTunes, it does not show up in Front Row. Since my music collection is growing and growing, I'd like to find a way where I can still enjoy all of my music while using Front Row even if it's not destined to be uploaded to my iPod.
Thanks!

Perhaps you should change the way you sync your iPod? You could create a playlist that gets synchronized to the iPod. Then you wouldn't have to use the check box to select items to sync.
-Doug

AirTunes compatibility with Front Row

In the AirPort Express FAQ, it says:
Question: Can I use other applications, like QuickTime or Windows Media Player, to send sound to AirPort Express via AirTunes?
Answer: At this time Apple only supports sending one AirTunes stream to AirPort Express via iTunes 4.6 or later.
What does this mean for Front Row? Is Front Row just a interface for iTunes and hence works with AirTunes, or not. I see in the Front Row forum people asking many questions about getting volume control with Front Row and AirTunes, so it seems like the FAQ description sounds more limited that the reality.
I am particularly interested the ability to watch a movie (that has been loaded into iTunes) using the Front Row interface and piping the sound out to AirTunes. In this case, would Front Row be using iTunes (and work with AirTunes) or would Front Row be using QuickTime (and not work with AirTunes)?
If movies in Front Row will work, will it work for all movies loaded into iTunes -- e.g. not just mov files, but also avi files supported with QuickTime plug-in to make them work in iTunes? And, if avi files loaded into iTunes would work, would it work for both movies physically stored in /iTunes/movie folder, as well as 'reference movies' stored in that folder pointing to files stored elsewhere?

Per the Wikipedia AirPort article, no video in iTunes. Apparently, there are 3rd party utilities that can pump any program sound output (Mac and Windows) to the AX, not just iTunes -- which is handy, say, if you want to play Pandora in Safari. However, even these programs say they are useless for video. Apparently, the AirTunes protocol delays playback 2 to 10 seconds for buffering. Delay in audio playback aren't a problem, but with video, the sound and picture would be out of synch.

ITunes U content in Front Row

Does iTunes U content not show up within Front Row? I thought maybe they would be included under Podcasts, but I don't see them there. There is also not a specific category devoted to only iTunes U.
Anyone have an ideas?

fopboy wrote:
yeh, same problem here (10.5.8)
iTunesU does appear in Front Row but it is very very broken.
Look under Music > Playlists and you'll see an iTunesU category
However audio only iTunesU do not play, I get an unsupported video error message even though they are not video files
video iTunesU will play but it appears that Front Row streams the episodes direct from the internet rather than playing the already downloaded copies
so iTunesU video works after a fashion, but iTunesU audio-only appear not to work
unless someone can point me to some prefs setting or something that will make iTunesU work correctly?
i have too many iTunesU lectures to arse around changing them all to podcasts and also podcasts are organisied differently
update: the only episodes of anything showing under iTunesU in Front Row are those episodes i am subscribed to but haven't yet downloaded... anything i am subscribed to but have downloaded doesn't appear in Front Row - bizarre

Interrupting Keynote 3 with Front Row

When I interrupt a slide with Front Row to play a song, I get the desktop back afterwards rather than the slide I interrupted. I have to manually click on the Keynote icon to get back to my slide. Is this the intended behavior? It would be really nice if the interrupted slide would come back up.

When I interrupt a slide with Front Row to play a
song, I get the desktop back afterwards rather than
the slide I interrupted. I have to manually click on
the Keynote icon to get back to my slide. Is this the
intended behavior? It would be really nice if the
interrupted slide would come back up.
This drove me mad until I discovered the trick. This assumes you're using the Apple Remote.
1) click through KN until the point you want to switch out to Front Row. (This can be any point, say build 27 on a slide with 43 builds. It can even be in the middle of an embedded QT movie - yes, even a 1920x1080 HDV assuming you've got the codec from FCP or QMaster).
2) this is the important bit. Click the ENTER button on the remote - in the centre of the click wheel - BEFORE you click the MENU button to call up Front Row. The freezes KN at exactly the moment you click.
3) Do whatever you want in Front Row
4) Return to KN using the MENU Button to get back up the Front Row hierarchy
5) Then click the ENTER button again to restart KN at exactly the point you left it. You do not get the Desktop back and you do not need to manually click the present slides button in KN.
This really blew 'em away at one of my recent gigs.
MacBookPro 17. G5 Dual 2Ghz. iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Airport Express with Front Row

Why in the world would Apple make the remote with my iMac Core Duo control the local volume, not the iTunes volume, when in Front Row? Does that make any sense? Not to me. Kind of defeats the purpose to have to walk to my iMac to adjust the volume with the mouse when I have a remote!

This is a user-to-user support forum. It appears as if you have a suggestion which is best left at: http://www.apple.com/feedback
If you are looking to control the volume of your mac, have you considered an Airclick? It can be found here: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/airclick/

Watch Rented TV shows in Front Row?

Hey guys... while in Front Row I can see the (rented) episode I want to watch, but when I start to watch the TV show, it states the I am not authorized to watch this content? Is this normal?

Does anyone else have this problem? I'm experiencing the same thing. I can watch it through iTunes but if try to watch the rented TV show through Front Row it says I'm not authorized. I've tried all the usual things like rebooting the router and the computer and deauthorizing and authorizing the computer but I can't figure it out. Maybe it just can't be done.

Anybody using M-Audio Transit USB with Front Row?

If any of you are using Front Row with the external Transit USB D/A Coverter, and are experiencing freezing issues, you may want to read below what I have been able to figure out as to why this is happening.
After MANY hours of frustration, I have been able to confirm that the Transit USB is causing the following problem:
I have a Mac Mini with a clean install of Leopard 10.5.2 and all Apple updates. Nothing else is installed. With the Transit NOT connected to the Mini, I installed the latest 1.7-3 drivers from your site and restarted computer. I then connected the Transit and selected AC-3 as the Audio Output. In order to make Front Row see AC-3, you must open "DVD Player" and select its output to "Digital Out - M-Audio Transit USB" instead of "System Sound Output". You then need to restart Mini. With that done, playing movies thru "DVD Player" works fine. However, when you go to watch a movie thru "Front Row", the Transit (for some reason) causes "Front Row" to freeze. It doesn't freeze during movie playback, it freezes when hitting "Menu" and you are sitting at the Menu Screen that asks for the following 3 options: "Resume Playing", "Start from Beginning", or "DVD Menu". There is no way to get out of this frozen state. You MUST restart computer. When computer restarts, if you go into "DVD Player" Preferences and change the audio output selection back to "System Sound Output" and restart computer, this issue disappears and Front Row works fine again (however, without AC-3).
To reiterate my point: Transit USB works fine with DVD Player but NOT with Front Row. I have confirmed this on 2 Mac Mini's.

This is indeed an M-Audio issue. I have the same setup you do, except my mini is a 1.25GHz G4 with no on-board Digital audio output.
To make it work with front row, you have to go to (Settings) and turn off the background music, it will stop freezing and let you select your media.
My AC3 output from my Transit USB has never worked in this configuration. My receiver just doesn't see AC3 coming out of it.....soooo no sound at all. However I set it to (Outputs 1&2), (24bit) and boom...my receiver plays back in its Pro Logic setting via an optical connection from the Transit. All my movies and music playback just lovely. BUT. If I go on the net and try to play a flash video, like a YouTube, etc... Safari will freeze. I verified it is the Transit and not Safari because the moment I unplug the Transit, Safari wakes up, the video resumes and sound plays through the internal speaker just fine.
Something's goofy with the M-Audio Driver for Leopard.

Headless mini disagrees with Front Row

FYI. I'm running a Mini Intel headless via Timbuktu. With no monitor attached the remote does fine controlling iTunes, but when one tries to invoke Front Row, either via the keyboard or the remote, it results in a blank white screen. This was news to Apple, so I thought I'd post the info.
Mini Intel Core duo Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Interesting, I've never tried Timbuktu with Front Row but Apple Remote Desktop works fine.

Looking for an app the play iTunes TV shows.

Hi, I'm looking for an app that play iTunes TV shows. In iOs 7 its no longer possible, well it is, but every 11 minutes you have to get up and press the next tv show - if you find the next one, under ios6 it will automatically play the next show in correct order, and in iOs 7 all the shows are alphebetically, so in iOs 7 video app is tootally useless, what wants to watch tv shows alphabetical, and there is no continue button like in os 7, usually the next night I press the continue button in iOs 6.
The app I am looking for needs to have the same things like video app did in iOs6, for example;
1. Continue from last played (Works in iOs6, no longer supported in iOs7).
2. Sort shows from 1 to xx via episode number (Works in iOs6, no longer supported in iOs7).
3. Remember last played show, meaning if I scrolled down to middle and played just 1 show it remembers it (Works in iOs6, no longer supported in iOs7).
4. Prefer black background and not white like in iOs6, especially if your sleepy, do you really want to look at a painful white background.
Just imagine your taking a bath, do you really want to get out and press the next show? Worked perfect in iOs6.
I tried VLC and it can't even find the iTunes library. And there are so many players out there don't feel like downloading 100 of them to test them. Unless there is a way to download the iOs6 version of Video, I'd be happy. iOs 7 feels more like a beta version, even photos is messed up, white background and sometimes when you open up you see a previous picture I had opened before the last picture for 1 second before it closes and opens the last picture I viewed, and then the white bars top and bottom show and don't dissapear until you make them disappear.
I tried installing iOs6 again, but apple is not signing it, i'm not happy at all. If I can get my TV-Shows to work at least I'd have something. Music, TV-Shows, and Pictures is what I used my iPad for, now only Music still works as it should, what a bummer. Steve Job needs to come back.
Please help, I want my TV shows back.

http://www.tvcatchup.com/iphone.html

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