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OS X Mountain Lion - Front Row
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Where'd you get it? I want one :|
Just use "Movist"
Apart from having to click an icon to start it, it's almost identical to Front Row in navigation and usage.
I use it every day to watch Movies, Documentaries, DVD Tutorials, etc... I don't use it for Music, I have that disabled, so can't comment on that aspect of it.
Flex was a pain in the @$s when it came to recognising DVD Tutorials, where you have a heap of folders with a few individual lessons in them, it kept identifying them as obscure movies and such forth. I got rid of it almost as soon as I got it. If I was only watching single file Movies and single file type Documentaries, I would have stuck with it though.
Apart from having to click an icon to start it, it's almost identical to Front Row in navigation and usage.
I use it every day to watch Movies, Documentaries, DVD Tutorials, etc... I don't use it for Music, I have that disabled, so can't comment on that aspect of it.
Flex was a pain in the @$s when it came to recognising DVD Tutorials, where you have a heap of folders with a few individual lessons in them, it kept identifying them as obscure movies and such forth. I got rid of it almost as soon as I got it. If I was only watching single file Movies and single file type Documentaries, I would have stuck with it though.
A great loss to OSX
Well yarivn, I tried your work around, but must be doing something wrong... Tried to open Front Row.app from the download you linked to but it just doesn't appear in the Activity Monitor.
Have tried it looking in all tabbed sections (i.e. CPU, System Memory, Disk Activity, Disk Usage, Network) but, apart from trying to see through the constantly changing lists of activity, Front Row simply isn't showing up for me to then 'escape'.
Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?
Am gutted that Front Row is disabled in MLion... am considering regressing to Snow Leopard, but seems such a waste!
Well yarivn, I tried your work around, but must be doing something wrong... Tried to open Front Row.app from the download you linked to but it just doesn't appear in the Activity Monitor.
Have tried it looking in all tabbed sections (i.e. CPU, System Memory, Disk Activity, Disk Usage, Network) but, apart from trying to see through the constantly changing lists of activity, Front Row simply isn't showing up for me to then 'escape'.
Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?
Am gutted that Front Row is disabled in MLion... am considering regressing to Snow Leopard, but seems such a waste!
i dont really know... i'm sorry...
what i know is that i'm not the only one that it worked for, i have seen it in few other forums that people got front row to work using this method, but i cant say for sure why this works for some and doesn't fot others.
what i know is that i'm not the only one that it worked for, i have seen it in few other forums that people got front row to work using this method, but i cant say for sure why this works for some and doesn't fot others.
Dear Yarivn,
I have registered just to say thank you, it worked as a treat, I was looking for a fix since upgrading to ML.
For people that it didnt't work for you, you may need to install front row enabler first, you can download it here:
http://www.mac-hatter.com/blog/frontrowenablerforlion
As I got it already enabled and working in Lion.
Again thank you
Jim
Thanks!
Many Thanks yarivn, at first I was trying your remedy from my existing Front Row icon, it didn't occur to me to download the one you posted. Once I did I dragged it in to Applications and then tried and it worked!
Many Thanks yarivn, at first I was trying your remedy from my existing Front Row icon, it didn't occur to me to download the one you posted. Once I did I dragged it in to Applications and then tried and it worked!
Thanks Yarivn, it runs however my remote cannot control it but keyboard did.
I've just see into the content of the app, it seems you have upgraded several version of MacOS since 2008 or 2009; the version of the app (broken icon) you sent out is an old version which build in 2008/2009. I think there should be some experts can do the trick to 'upgrade' it to use in ML.
regards
Richard
Many thanks for posting that solution, Yarvin.
I had previously installed FrontRow Enabler, and all I had to do was double-click that file, press Esc, and it opened!!
I'd love it if the remote could work with it, too, but something's happened to the remote since Mountain Lion, too. iTunes ignores it completely, now - for example.
There was a terminal command for Eye TV that helped Apple Remote, not only with Eye TV, but Front Row, as well. I haven't run that command for a few OS X updates, because Eye TV works with Apple Remote, without it.
I had previously installed FrontRow Enabler, and all I had to do was double-click that file, press Esc, and it opened!!
I'd love it if the remote could work with it, too, but something's happened to the remote since Mountain Lion, too. iTunes ignores it completely, now - for example.
There was a terminal command for Eye TV that helped Apple Remote, not only with Eye TV, but Front Row, as well. I haven't run that command for a few OS X updates, because Eye TV works with Apple Remote, without it.
Command was
defaults write com.elgato.eyetv "apple remote menu button behavior" -int 1
Anyone want to hazzard a guess as to how to get Apple Remote working for Yarvin's Front Row app?defaults write com.elgato.eyetv "apple remote menu button behavior" -int 1
I have since long way back, replaced Frontrow with Plex for my Movie/TV-series needs.
Due to Plex Media Server Madness (0.9+?) where they want the user to manage movies instead of watching them I have stayed with Plex 0.8 which doesn't need a Media Server.
I do use a SL Mac mini so I am not sure if Plex 0.8 would work on Mnt. Lion?
That might be worth a try if you want something easy which works?
If Plex 0.8 would stop working I would probably go XBMC instead but I really like Plex 0.8 small, lean and fast
Due to Plex Media Server Madness (0.9+?) where they want the user to manage movies instead of watching them I have stayed with Plex 0.8 which doesn't need a Media Server.
I do use a SL Mac mini so I am not sure if Plex 0.8 would work on Mnt. Lion?
That might be worth a try if you want something easy which works?
If Plex 0.8 would stop working I would probably go XBMC instead but I really like Plex 0.8 small, lean and fast
I have since long way back, replaced Frontrow with Plex for my Movie/TV-series needs.
Due to Plex Media Server Madness (0.9+?) where they want the user to manage movies instead of watching them I have stayed with Plex 0.8 which doesn't need a Media Server.
I do use a SL Mac mini so I am not sure if Plex 0.8 would work on Mnt. Lion?
That might be worth a try if you want something easy which works?
If Plex 0.8 would stop working I would probably go XBMC instead but I really like Plex 0.8 small, lean and fast
I like XBMC, but they really need to fix whatever is hogging the CPU. If you are just sitting in the menus and not doing anything it hogs the CPU and makes the fans spin up. Maybe it's just me, but I have this problem on all my Macs.
I am now installing Snow Leopard once again on my black MB just for Front Row. I simply use this computer as my media center with an external monitor. That's it's main purpose these days.
I was using Remote on my iPhone to start shows and movies but it was always so much easier with Front Row.
I used an extra drive and installed it in my MB. Since it's so easy to swap drives, I can always go back and install my Lion drive in the future.
I was using Remote on my iPhone to start shows and movies but it was always so much easier with Front Row.
I used an extra drive and installed it in my MB. Since it's so easy to swap drives, I can always go back and install my Lion drive in the future.
Strange, I haven't noticed that. Did watch a complete movie 720p this weekend with XBMC 11 (Eden). I didn't notice any fans going wild. I have a 2009 Mac mini as Media Center and that seem to be much cooler than the 2011 offering I use as my desktop mini.
Hard to believe, but yes, I did the download of the obscure icon and pressed escape after launching it - and lo and behold - up it came. It doesn't find my music and movies I suppose because my iTunes library is kept on an external drive, but the movie trailers and iTunes store stuff is all there. I can also navigate to my movies by having a link to my library in the Mac Movies folder. All is good. Thanks so much for this quirky solution.
This worked in Lion, but no longer works for Mountain Lion, and I'd love to have Front Row working again... seems this thread is mixing Lion and Mountain Lion responses. Has anyone gotten Front Row to work again in MOUNTAIN Lion, because the fix linked above does not seem to work any more, when you click on Front Row now, nothing happens.
This worked in Lion, but no longer works for Mountain Lion, and I'd love to have Front Row working again... seems this thread is mixing Lion and Mountain Lion responses. Has anyone gotten Front Row to work again in MOUNTAIN Lion, because the fix linked above does not seem to work any more, when you click on Front Row now, nothing happens.
You may have failed to follow instructions. It's not the Front Row application "armchair" icon the one you're supposed to double-click in Mountain Lion, but rather the Front Row "generic" application icon in /System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app. If you do that, and then press Esc, lo and behold, Front Row will start and it will play movie trailers. As for your iTunes content, it won't find it natively, at least not if your iTunes Library version is later than 10.3.1, but it will sort of find it, without any nice graphic displays, if you share your content across your local network.
Well, it actually works under 10.8.3 and when getting into movie trailers menu, it shows the front pages of the movies, but when i click to see the trailer, it just spins showing the duration of the trailer without starting to play. By the way, iTunes trailers play fine. Any help, please?
Well, it actually works under 10.8.3 and when getting into movie trailers menu, it shows the front pages of the movies, but when i click to see the trailer, it just spins showing the duration of the trailer without starting to play. By the way, iTunes trailers play fine. Any help, please?
In my experience, what you describe happens with certain trailers, but not all. I haven't had the time to figure out when that happens. My hunch is that it might be related to the age rating of the movie itself. If so, the problem might be solved by assigning the relevant parental ratings to the "Front Row" launch script. Any other insight would be greatly appreciated. Let's see if we can figure this out.