Q: Playback issues in Frontrow from movie folder alias on external hard drive.
I seem to be having some issues watching my films in Frontrow from an external hard drive and was hoping someone could steer me in the right direction.
- Movies in 'movies folder' on external Hardrive
- Alias of 'movies folder' in movies folder on Computer Hardrive (mac mini)
- Titles appear when scrolling through Frontrow however when I select a film to watch the screen is blank (dark blue) and there is no sound, the films time stamp appears however?
- Have checked that it is not just the film as it is happening on all.
Any suggestions to get this sorted?
Thanks
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Posted on Jun 26, 2011 4:07 AM
What kind of files are they?
Do you have these installed?
Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)
Perian from http://perian.org/
You should read this support page http://perian.org/#support in case you need to delete older codecs. In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them), particularly any DivX extension to Safari. However it should be noted that Perian is not an internet plugin and will not play DivX files imbedded on a website. For that you will need the DivX Player browser plugin available from http://www.divx.com/en/software/mac/player
Posted on Jun 26, 2011 8:56 AM