How to Add Video From Other Folders to Front Row
If you are using a Macbook or Macbook Pro you most likely do not have a lot of room to be keeping libraries of movies and television shows on your actual hard drive. You may store videos on an external hard drive so that you can keep that valuable space available for other downloads.
If you use Front Row you may have found that it will only catalog video from your Movies folder. If you kept all of your movies in there this would be fine but for laptops or people who prefer to keep downloaded movies and television shows on an external hard drive Front Row is pointless.
So if you have your Macbook Pro hooked up to an HDTV and you want to sit back and use your Apple Remote and Front Row to browse your movies and television shows, you’re going to need a way of making sure those shows are accessible in Front Row. So here is a simple trick that will allow you to import a folder to be accessible in Front Row.
Step 1:
Navigate to your Movies folder.
Step 2:
Open a seperate window and navigate to the folder that contains the video that you want Front Row to access.
Step 3:
Create a shortcut (or alias in the world of apple) of the folder from Step 2.
Step 4:
Drag the Alias folder to your Movies Folder.
Step 5:
Begin using Front Row by using the keyboard shortcut “Command + Escape”. This will begin Front Row. Now navigate to Videos and then Movies and you should see the folder contents of the shortcut that you created earlier. All of your videos should now be accessible through Front Row even though they are being stored in a folder that is not actually located in your Movies folder.
Note: You must ensure that the content you have downloaded is able to be played by Front Row. Front Row uses Quicktime to render video so you must ensure that your video content will play in Quicktime for it to be able to play in Front Row.
There is an excellent free plugin for Quicktime that will allow it to play pretty much any video you throw at it just like VLC player. This plugin is called Perian and it will make Front Row a very versatile program that will allow you to enjoy your media library from afar while sitting back and watching video on your mac played through an HDTV.
Front Row is good for those looking for a simple interface that is more like a media center. It displays the titles in a way that you can read them from afar and is designed to work with the Apple Remote. There are also other media center applications out there that you should look into if you are looking for a different experience than the one Front Row provides.
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