Forcing Front Row into Rosetta (For 3ivx and a52 codecs)

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Forcing Front Row into Rosetta (For 3ivx and a52 codecs)

I've been very happy with my Mac Mini so far and my only complaint is that Front Row will not allow me to play movies encoded with 3ivx and a 52 codecs. I have found a way to get them to work in Quicktime (by forcing it into Rosetta) and I have figured out how to force Front Row into Rosetta but it still doesn't work. One of the other forums I consulted suggested that the problem is that Front Row uses Itunes with embedded Quicktime movies. I was hoping that it would be as simple as forcing Itunes to open with Rosetta but I have not been able to figure out how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please do not point me to the Apple file telling you how to force apps into rosetta. It does not work for Itunes.

Thanks!
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Mini Dual Core 12" Ibook g4, Mac OS X (10.4.5), Airport Extreme

Posted on May 7, 2006 6:23 PM

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a brody

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May 7, 2006 6:30 PM in response to Moobles

Well you may want to convert the said videos and audio files into a format Front Row does support. http://www.versiontracker.com/ and http://www.macupdate.com/ list many solutions for playing and working with those file formats.

I see you have already found the Front Row forum:

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1164

Maybe some people there may have additional answers if you can't find them in this one.

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Moobles Author

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May 7, 2006 6:44 PM in response to a brody

The problem with that is then I have to convert all of my movie files. This is a serious waste of time when any media player worth a crap can play these files (including Quicktime). Divx, Xvid, and 3ivx are the most popular codecs by far and I understand that it's not Apple's job to make sure that they are compatble with all Apple software but, if I can run the files in Quicktime then it should let me run them in Front Row.

I appreciate the help though.

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