FrontRow and Other File Formats
on 01.27.07, 07:34pm in home theater, mac • share on facebook • comments (3)
[Mac OSX Hints] To get a video that is not supported by iTunes — say, a DivX-encoded AVI file — to show up in either spot, open the video in QuickTime Player. (You must have a Quicktime Pro key for this to work.) Go to File, Save as, and click the Save as a reference movie radio button.
Similar to the post I did a few years back on getting MPEG4 content to show up in Media Center, Mac OSX Hints shows how to get files that aren’t supported in FrontRow natively to show up there and play. The big question: What happens with these files when you’re using Apple TV?
Grover Saunders (January 29, 2007 @ 5:40 pm)
BTW, while this is required to get the videos into iTunes, you don’t have to create the ref movies for the files to show up in Front Row. As long as the QT components for your codecs and avi files are installed (perian will do both) they show up in Front Row just fine.
ken partridge (January 30, 2007 @ 1:55 pm)
I have the same problem with my Zune. Every video file format it wants to convert to a wmv. Why cany it just play avi or mp4 natively ?
Matt Berther (February 9, 2007 @ 12:22 pm)
You know… I just started using a tool for OSX called VisualHub to convert my videos to MP4. I know that MP4 will work both in iTunes and AppleTV. At a little over $20, it’s really a steal. The quality of conversion is *excellent*.
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/