neckarb Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Is the new front row in 9A466? as shown here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/frontrow.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipodboy61 Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 yeah it is ,, looks just like apple tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Cool, I wonder if BackRow plugins are cross-compatible... it would be nice to have the YouTube thing on Front Row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazkid Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 And Weather, ATVFiles, RSS-If BR plugins are compatible, it could mean a much easier way to test plugins and could be a really great thing for the consumers of the ATV. Apple wouldn't be happy about it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 And Weather, ATVFiles, RSS-If BR plugins are compatible, it could mean a much easier way to test plugins and could be a really great thing for the consumers of the ATV. Apple wouldn't be happy about it though. Right now Apple is not taking any action... perhaps they left the back door open on purpose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgg71 Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Right now Apple is not taking any action... perhaps they left the back door open on purpose? yes. it is. the volume doesn't seem to work from remote. it works from the keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capeman Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 It doesn't seem like the new Front Row is able to play back music from shared libraries across the network. Or am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhinchliffe Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Is there any way to get the 9A466 Front Row running on OS 10.4 Tiger?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Is there any way to get the 9A466 Front Row running on OS 10.4 Tiger?? Yeah, if you'd like to port CoreAnimation back to Tiger for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhinchliffe Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 so, Leopard's front row isn't just Apple TV? Because last time I checked, the Apple TV used no Core Animation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macuser74 Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 How to start front row in 9A466? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellogoodbye Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 How to start front row in 9A466? Apple + Esc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macuser74 Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Apple + Esc Thanks dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Heckles Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 What led you to believe it uses Core Animation? It clearly does not. Just because you see things moving around that look cool does not mean it uses Core Animation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spotlightthis Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 While the AppleTV finder and Front Row 2.0 are similar, the backrow.framework is very different between the two. As everyone has seen, some plugins work and others don't, I'm assuming based on any dependencies in the framework itself. I have the AppleTV finder running on my Mac Mini which is perfect for my setup except that I can't change the volume with the remote, and I have to admit that having DVD functionality a-la FR2.0 would be pretty neat (with the menu only showing up if a DVD is detected.) I have Leopard running, and I've tried many different combinations of copying files over and between in a sort of mish-mash, but nothing works, so for me it's AppleTV for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questionmark Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 The new Front Row has some really weird bugs, for instance when you do a clean install of Leopard 9A466, the apple+esc command still works to bring Front Row up but after that, none of the keyboard commands work to navigate or exit Front Row, you have to use the remote. However, when I tried an upgrade install from Tiger to Leopard, keyboard navigation worked fine. This leads me to believe that Apple forgot to include some type of configuration file for Front Row in this build. I also noticed that an upgrade install seemed to fix some bugs, but caused others. After doing an upgrade, my Macbook Pro would not go into sleep mode anymore and Spotlight wanted to re-index my hard drive after every 2-3 restarts, really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capeman Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Actually, that happened to me on my PB G4. I could activate it with Cmd+Esc, but I couldn't get out of it. Since the G4 doesn't have a remote, I eventually had to hold down the power button. Next time I logged in, Front Row worked perfectly. It's just a glitch it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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