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by: gianpo
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30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Oct 28, 2007 11:38 AM
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What happened to the 30 second skip and is there a way to turn it back to 30 seconds. I know I am not skipping to chapters because the videos I tried it on don't have chapter markers. The skip feature seems to be random when I push the forward button some times it skips 1:40 and then the next time it skips 2:00 minutes.
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Oct 28, 2007 10:09 PM
in response to: gianpo
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I hate this also. It used to be 30seconds for forward and about 15 seconds for back. Now is about a minute (at least each way)
My work around for this for now is to hit PAUSe first... then the movie will only jump in 10seconds either way
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Oct 30, 2007 7:42 PM
in response to: frysteen
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I also loved the way it was 30 secs forward and 15secs back. made it really nice to get to the right location of videos. I really really think that the new "method" is a mistake. I hope they are listening and that others agree.
Message was edited by: Bailey Kessing1
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Oct 30, 2007 7:46 PM
in response to: Bailey Kessing1
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Yes, I completely agree here. Also, for some reason, it's not saving the point where I pause a movie. So, each time I leave a movie while watching, and go back to it in FR, I have to start from the beginning.
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Oct 31, 2007 5:41 AM
in response to: Chad Wells
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I noticed that as well, but it seems to be intermittent. If I played a video for a few minutes it would present the "resume" dialog. Not sure why or why not. Obviously someone messed with some of our favorite features of Front Row and I hope they stop! 
Message was edited by: Bailey Kessing1
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Oct 31, 2007 9:01 AM
in response to: gianpo
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I'd like to ring in as well and express interest in being able to modify the skip times.
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Oct 31, 2007 5:15 PM
in response to: gianpo
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If I remember correctly when AppleTV was released, I read somewhere that what it does it divided your video into 10 segments with what I'll call "virtual chapter markers". So a 60 minute video would have one every six minutes. When you skip forward, you go to the next virtual chapter marker.
Is that the behavior you are seeing? What happens when you are playing a DVD, does it go to the next chapter on the DVD? If you create a QT movie with real chapter markers, how does that behave?
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Nov 1, 2007 7:04 AM
in response to: gianpo
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I too find the skipping forward and backwards utterly useless. It also seems to be in some bizarre increments of 1, 2 and 3 minutes depending on how many times you click. I tried to watch a TV show and forward past the credits but it would jump forward too far, then when I hit the back key, it jumped back to where I started! Pushing forward then back takes you no where!
Yes I can hold down the forward and back keys and get varying speeds of fast forward and rewind but I find it hard to get it right, 1st speed is too slow, 3rd speed is too fast to react in time.
It would be great if the jump forward and back is user defined like in EyeTV.
And whatever happened too the resume function???
Although a little clunky and slow I think I preferred the old version, anyone know how to revert to this until they get FR 2.0 sorted???
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Nov 4, 2007 9:03 AM
in response to: gianpo
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The current skip is useless to me. I hope they will either go back to the 30 second skip or allow users to choose which method they prefer.
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Nov 4, 2007 12:55 PM
in response to: Zenara25
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I actually love the look of Frontrow 2.1 but the 30 second skip is more important to me. So I replaced frontrow 2.1 (Front Row.app located in System/Library/CoreServices) with frontrow 1.3.1 (I couldn't find it on my os x disc but it was on my superduper backup before the leopard upgrade)
30 second skip works fine now.
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Nov 13, 2007 2:16 PM
in response to: gianpo
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If you want to skip 30 seconds, the trick is to hit pause first, then it goes in 30 second intervals.
The FF/RW control changes are really annoying. I find the scan feature useless, it's too choppy and unpredictable.
This design is backwards. It should skip further while in pause mode, in shorter increments while playing.
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Nov 15, 2007 6:21 PM
in response to: jamesdstark
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woops looks like it's only 10 second intervals that way.. better than nothing though. I don't know where apple gets these people who design this stuff, doesn't make sense at all. I also notice it skips forward at fixed points, not a set amount of time from where you are currently at.
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Dec 3, 2007 10:01 PM
in response to: gianpo
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Hey Apple get off your arse and give us back the 30 second skip. I used to love having a Mac control my TV, but now I am actually considering other alternatives.
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Dec 5, 2007 5:19 AM
in response to: gianpo
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Why can't they just give us a preference pane for Front Row?
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Re: 30 second skip in front row for 10.5
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Dec 10, 2007 11:20 PM
in response to: jamesdstark
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It looks like you are describing the behavior mentioned by Bean earlier in the thread. FR2 seems to divid any movie into a fixed number of virtual chapters, which is probably the worst possible approach. I also would like to express my utter disappointment that the "resume playing where you stopped" function (still available for DVD playback) is gone from the movies playback function. It was one of my main reasons to love FR. Also the movie previews from iTunes in FR take a horrendous time to download and usually get hickups after 10 seconds of playing. I use a 3Mbit DSL and the latest iMac, and it was totaly fine under Tiger with older hardware. Plus (and then I stop complaining) FR shows always that stupid progress bar at the beginning of every movie and then fades it out. When watching certain content I really don't want to see that. Actually, I never want to see that. I think what happened this time is that FR1 was a true mac-app designed and written by mac developers. FR2 seems to be left to iPod developers. Don't get me wrong the iPod is an ultimately cool product, but it's not a mac. It follows different rules and is geared towards a different audience. What works on the iPod, or is even perfect for the iPod is not necessarily the best choice for the mac.
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