How to watch Movies in Apple Front Row without importing them to Itunes
Thursday, February 21st, 2008In order to watch movies in Itunes you have to convert them into one of the few supported formats, which for longer movies is a lot of work. I have my home server with an harddrive full of movies and I really wanted to be able to access them with the nice remotely controlled interface of Apples Front Row, which is actually capable of playing a lot more video formats than itunes supports. In Leopard Front Row offers you the possibility to access the movies folder on your mac. I only have a 120 GB Harddrive so now way I could keep all my movies in this folder, but the solution is simple:
Simply create an alias of the folder your movies are in and place it inside the designated movies Folder. That way you can add any location from a usb Harddrive to a Windows SMB share. Then run Front Row and check the movies folder for the alias. And you are done watching all your movies without importing them to itunes.