Comments on: Front Row, of course

By: Joppe

Joppe — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:54:52 +0000

It does not need Core Video, it runs nicely on my year old iBook G4, and reportedly also on Mac minis. However some lagging exists, probably because i only have 256mb ram. A bluetooth phone as SE W800 works nicely as remote.
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/10/24/reader-video-front-row-on-a-mac-mini/

By: Bob C.

Bob C. — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:55:53 +0000

I just downloaded this (I found the link somewhere online) and have it running on my 17″ powerbook. WOW!!!!!!

It was a simple matter of dragging the application to my Applications folder. Aside from the fact that I’m unable to get DVDs to play it works beautifully.

Here’s a video of it in action:
http://www.tuaw.com/files/2005/10/FrontRowOnMacMini.m4v

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By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:51:45 +0000

Peter,
I’m sure that if you rip the DVDs to the hard drive, you could access it via the “iMovie” option, instead of “DVD Player”. I’m not sure, but I think you could use software like “Mac The Ripper” to do this.

By: mcfarren

mcfarren — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:29:15 +0000

I’m pretty sure the discs must be inserted. And since the iMacs contain the proprietary hardware IR for the remote, its easy for them to lock the software to only run on the iMacs–which they did.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:21:56 +0000

Front Row plays iMovies that are on your drive, iTunes that are on your drive, displays iPhotos that are on your drive….
…but DVDs have to be inserted?
I would like to take my son’s entire collection of Sesame Street, Thomas The Tank Engine, etc DVDs and save them to disk for convenient viewing via Front Row.
Does front row only play disks that are inserted? Or can it play from disk images?

By: Wouter

Wouter — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:11:16 +0000

I want it on my Power Mac G5 !!!

By: sandifop

sandifop — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:40:39 +0000

Other authors have wondered if Front Row would be introduced on other systems, too. I suspect it needs Core Video support and won’t play on … say … the mini Mac. This is a gorgous Apple application that reminds me of 3-D GUI models I’ve played with. Most 3-D GUIs don’t work will with the average monkey brain but this is a cleaner display hybred of 3-D effects and 2-D menus.

Lovely, really. I can see a future finder in this approach.