When quitting the "front row" app with the Close AppleTV app, i saw that the appletv showed up in my itunes, briefly, then disconnected. so its doable if i can change the window focus to itunes, input the code and sync or stream.

I've tried the following to no avail:

-mapping key commands with SteerMouse to command+tab
-mapping key commands with SteerMouse to command+option+esc
-using virtue desktop and SteerMouse key commands to swap desktops (itunes on a seperate desktop)
-using virtue desktop and the sudden motion sensor

any ideas on how to run "front row" in a window? any ideas at all? maybe some kind of fast user switching?

we're so close!

Thanks for all the hard work, guys. What a community.

check my last post for instructions!

Instead of a Window, I would love to be able to run the AppleTV app on a secondary display.

Example: Macbook Pro
Internal Display (always normal), DVI External Display (AppleTV Frontrow)

The problem is that normally when you fullscreen something on a multi-head setup, one screen is fullscreen, the other is blacked.

The only exception is "Present" in Quicktime when you can output video fullscreen on a secondary display leaving your main fully functional in the mean time.

I use that all the time when I am working, however usually I just stick with using iTunes and having a nearly maximized window on the secondary display.

where did u get the close apple tv app

Our first challenge, rather than in a window (which would be useless anyway due to its requirements - i.e. HD) would be fast user switching.

Another option for content would be to find the folders AppleTV uses for the files and create aliases there. That's what we did when Front Row came out and people like me had Music and such on other external drives. worked a charm.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=46680

the point of running it in a window would be so you could change window focus for a moment. also know that even a macbook is higher than 720p resolution, so it wouldn't matter if the requirements were "hd".

my macbook shows the HDMI connection as 1280x800...so if there were a way to force its resolution to 1280x720, it may be possible to change focus to itunes.

I've got my MacBook hooked up to an Apple Cinema display, using the extended desktop way. When I have aTV running on my cinema display I can still see the OSX desktop on my MacBook's screen, I can even see AppleTV pop up in my iTunes. But there is no way of using my mouse or keyboard to focus on iTunes en enter de syncing code...

darh, plug in an external mouse after appletv is launched. should be able to do it then.

if only i had another display. drat.

hmm, that doesn't work. It's strange because I do can use the other buttons on the mouse to exit aTV. Just seems like when backrow is running, the cursor is disabled or something, even on a normal Mac

last night when i plugged in the external mouse after backrow/atv was running, i got a cursor. so i dunno.

i'm totally in agreement: but i think the first step is getting a standalone AppleTV app.....that can close (I'm thinking that maybe having an "appliance" for closing out appletv may be the best way) and also one that just gets dragged into your applications folder and leaves everything else alone

I posted a link to something on the tutorial thread a while ago, but no one listened.

I think that if someone deciphered this:

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Media_Library

we could make the aTV software read your iTunes library by adding hardlinks or something. It might have potential.

OK, I've tested some things out.

I installed MouseLocator so I can see what I am doing with my mouse.

Before starting the AppleTV app I put iTunes and texteditor on my macbooks' screen, wich is visable when ATV is running.

And then this strange thing happens. I can do everything in textedit (except typing..) but I can't do anything in iTunes.. It won't even come to the frond, textedit keeps hovering over it... The only thing you can do is move the iTunes window around (behind textedit)

So, somehow iTunes is disabled when ATV is running, who can help me?

Edit: maybe because iTunes thinks Front Row is running, that no-one is allowed to touch iTunes?

thats cool but it makes jack {censored} of sense to me lol

that's precisely why I used the word "decipher". There must be someone around here that can read that.

use the tutorial on hackint0sh about replacing the string BRFullscreenRenderer to BRWindowRenderer.... in your application.

got it to work beautifully on my macbook by changing the resolution to 1152x720, then launching the appletv app, then i had juuust enouth real estate to input the code to itunes. my media streams fine and its all good.

Is it accomplished?

Sorry, i cannot tell - there are so many random threads, and several hacks, etc.

Is there a Wiki with specific tutorials for specific needs?

I have a MacMini Media center - i want to use AppleTV interface instead of Front Row for local media ...

Can someone help the code challenged ?

*sigh*

this forum is a mess ...