@archaos

Well, the Front Row i'm talking about is in fact the AppleTV's patched Finder.

I've just modified its .app name, its info.plist inside Contents and its Finder binary inside MacOS.

Now the system believes that it is the standard Front Row.app it uses when i press the apple remote menu button.

So i can still use my original OS X Finder when i quit "Front Row"
(you better have to stop any media playing before quitting to avoid file corruption).

I fixed my problem with an auto-installer.

I don't know exatcly what problem i had... but it works now

Well, the Front Row i'm talking about is in fact the AppleTV's patched Finder.

I've just modified its .app name, its info.plist inside Contents and its Finder binary inside MacOS.

Now the system believes that it is the standard Front Row.app it uses when i press the apple remote menu button.

So i can still use my original OS X Finder when i quit "Front Row"
(you better have to stop any media playing before quitting to avoid file corruption).

awesome! do you know of a way to use your media on the current computer?

also, for all those needing an installer, I found one here:

[removed for legal reasons - sorry]

enjoy

Originally Posted by XianLi

@archaos

Well, the Front Row i'm talking about is in fact the AppleTV's patched Finder.

I've just modified its .app name, its info.plist inside Contents and its Finder binary inside MacOS.

Now the system believes that it is the standard Front Row.app it uses when i press the apple remote menu button.

So i can still use my original OS X Finder when i quit "Front Row"
(you better have to stop any media playing before quitting to avoid file corruption).

I guess we agree on what we are talking about I was just saying that the front row from the apple tv has been called back row on many other web site.

The thing that i m really looking forward is how do you quit back row (the apple tv frontrow) on your macbook ? It is the last step we all need to be able to use it without killing the finder from another computer !

Thx

I would like to kill "frontrow 2.0" with a menu-entry you could create by cloning a *.frappliance in the Plugin-folder. I'd like to launch a bash-script like this:

Code:

kill $(ps -A | grep [A]ppleTV | awk '{ print $1}')

(in this case the Finder.app was renamed to AppleTV.app).
But if I replace the default binary with my own the plugin is not longer displayed in the menu :-/

EDIT: Here is a plugin mentioned - http://www.awkwardtv.org/?p=12 anyone some technical details?
ps: pls ignore my broken english

The complete Install procedure with ability to quit Back Row and Preserve your original finder is here

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/show...=3654#post3654

XianLi: can you open a thread and post your howto there again? It woudl be great, thsi thread is getting insane big and I don't want valued information to get lost in the masses. thx!

ok sorry

Back Row is running Java Hotspot.

This is what i've got after messing with appliances and crashed one.

FrontRow[267]Java VM: JAva HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_07-87 mixed mode, sharing)

JavaNativeCrash_pid402.crash.log :

OS:Mac OS X
CPU:total 2 family 6, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, ht
Memory: 4k page, physical 1048576k
vm_info: JAva HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_07-87) for macosx-86

If you want to know what is Hotspot >

http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/HotSpotFAQ.html

Originally Posted by semthex

No more looping video

For anyone befire you run into AppleTV control problems... use the frontrow mousedriver which is available!

can we add this to one of the how to's?