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Frontrow and avis/mpegs!

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dancertom3

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Jan 8, 2007
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Sorry, new mac user. Just switched today!! :D

How do I get Frontrow to work with avi's and mpegs? I've got VLC for playing outside of Frontrow, but would really love to use frontrow, as it's easier, and prettier!!!

Any help?
 
aristobrat said:
Perian is awesome. :)

My videos are on an external drive, so I placed an alias to that location in my Movies folder and it works fine.
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I've got an external Hard Drive that I want to keep my movies on too! How do I place an alias to it, so it will work? And does it automatically see which file is a movie and which is a TV show? Can I use iTunes to define that without adding the files to my iTunes Library?
 
On the external drive, I right-clicked on the folder that had my content, chose "Make Alias", and then moved the file that was created to my Movies folder.

Using that method, everything shows up in Movies in Front Row -- not under TV, etc. I'm not sure how to make TV shows appear in TV if the show is encoded in a way that iTunes doesn't like, which seems to be how 99% of the shows I get are. :)
 
You can use lostify to tag .mp4s as TV shows, then they will show up under the TV show section in itunes. Unfortunately, lostify can only read .mp4 videos, no .mov or mpegs, so if you are really serious about putting the show in the TV section you will need to convert them to .mp4.

But even this will not work if you are using an external drive, in order for itunes to put them in the right section you need to drag the videos into the library. Unless of course your itunes library resides on an external drive as well, in which that case it will work fine.
 
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