Tv Shows in Front Row

I have no movies or tv shows imported into iTunes, but when I access FrontRow, all the movies that are in my "movies" folder, appear, and play perfectly fine..
I was hoping there would be a default folder for "Tv Shows" like this, that would simply work through FrontRow, but I've noticed the only way to get TV Shows in to Frontrow is to import them into the Tv Show section of iTunes.
Problem is, when I drag these movies across to iTunes nothing happens. They don't appear in any section within the library.
At first I thought this must be because my mac doesn't have the correct codecs installed as default, but my movies all require obscuer codecs to play, and they play just fine in FrontRow so obviously this isn't the problem...
Unless iTunes somehow needs the codecs installed into it?
Shouldn't iTunes just pick up on any codecs that have been installed into the system...?

the only video codec I've gotten to show up in iTunes is some variation of mpeg-4 (protected or unprotected).
another thing about getting them into the "TV SHOWS" folder is that I have to individually go into the file in itunes (Get Info in the FILE menu) the "VIDEO" setting tab. by default all video files are movies as far as iTunes is concerned. even if in the "INFO" tab the genre is TV SHOW it still shows up in movies. you have to select "TV SHOWS" from the drop down menu there in "VIDEO."
so far the video aspect of iTunes is not quite as robust as the audio. hopefully in the future this will change. my biggest complaint right now is that in the TV SHOWS folder of the iTunes library individual seasons of TV Shows no longer get their own subfolder, it's all just one big folder of everything in that show. I've fold a workaround to sorta fix that but it doesn't generate subfolders.

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