Issues with Front Row in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Several users have noticed a significant performance issue while using Apple's Front Row after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Affected systems exhibit jerky video playback and overall slow and buggy performance. Most users in this Apple Support Discussions thread are reporting the issue on Mac Minis and older generation MacBooks with shared graphics processors. ASD user "Watchful" reports:
So I just installed Snow Leopard on my Mac Mini which I use as a media center in my living room. So obviously I use Front Row extensively. Imagine my dismay to find out that front row is now jerky, sometimes won't respond, and in general *****. Videos play back jerky, and steppy as well while the same videos play find through Quicktime X or Quicktime 7, and iTunes full screen.
Several suggestions have been made throughout the growing thread, though none have seemed to create a solution. The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has written this article about the Front Row issues. The best guess TUAW, the forums, and I could make would be an underlying issue with the way Front Row is accessing the QuickTime X resources.
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There is an enormous delay in opening FR under SL, that I thought it may have been my drive sleeping too often. I moved my iTunes library to an external SSD, which provided a small improvement, but nothing compared to any of the other content on the drive, which launches virtually instantly, not to mention that all of the same content loads and plays in Quicktime Player 7/X just fine, just not Front Row. I even notice that scrolling up and down in the menu has jitter, even when running the old Leopard version of the Front Row app in SL.
My Mac Mini is still running Tiger -- was considering updating it to Leopard or even Snow Leopard but with this issue now reported at least till a fix is available will not be getting Snow Leopard for the Mac Mini.
- by CMitch0611 June 21, 2010 9:00 PM PDT
- The problem I am having is with how Front Row is categorizing my videos from iTunes. When I open Front Row all my TV shows are categorized with my movies and everything is just randomly thrown together. Everything is properly labelled in iTunes but getting lost in translation in the transition into Front Row.
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