Playback issues in Frontrow from movie folder alias on external hard drive.

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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

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Klaus1

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Jun 26, 2011 7:28 AM in response to Cilla_White

I am not sure that the setup as descibed in 1. and 2. will work.

They way that works for me is not to have an alias of the Movied folder, but to have an alias of each movie that is stored on the external hard drive, in the Movies folder on your start-up drive.

That way Front Row will find them where it expects them to be.

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Cilla_White Author

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Jun 26, 2011 7:45 AM in response to Klaus1

Thanks for your response.

Since posting I have discovered that I cant seem to watch any films through frontrow (regardless of it being an alias or the actual file) from within the 'movies' folder; I find this odd as the movies I have in iphoto will play in frontrow.

any additional thoughts?

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Klaus1

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Jun 26, 2011 8:56 AM in response to Cilla_White

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

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Cilla_White Author

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Jun 26, 2011 3:32 PM in response to Klaus1

Installing Perian worked and I am now able to watch my films via frontrow.

Thanks v much Klaus1.

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