View Time Capsule Movies in Front Row
Written on July 07, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 6 people have commented
I fired up front row the other day for the first time after getting a Time Capsule, and sure enough my Time Capsule movies weren’t indexing. I first tried using the settings inside of Front Row to map the folder, but there was no mapping option available. Next I tried making an alias of my movies folder on my Time Capsule, and putting it in my local movies folder…and it worked!
To play movies in Front Row from your Time Capsule (or any networked or external hard drive) follow these instructions:
- Download and installPerian (this let’s quicktime play divx and avi’s)
- Navigate to the folder where all your movies you want to play are
- Right click on the folder and select “make alias”
- Drag the alias into your local movies folder
- Fire up Front Row, and navigate to the “Movies” section. Inside the movies section you should now see the alias folder with all your movies inside!
I took it one step further, and made an alias for my TV shows too, so I could easily find and watch. Please help me in my quest to create my ultimate mac media center and post anymore fun Front Row tricks to the comments. Thanks!
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#1 Leland says:Nice, thanks for the tip; it’s so Mac-like, too, with the alias coming to the rescue once again.
Question –
Say that I offload iTMS movies onto my Time Capsule to save space on my MB Pro’s hard drive. Will they play directly in Front Row, or would they need to be copied back into iTunes before playback?
#2 Jenny Kortina says:I think you could create a separate library for your movies, and then point iTunes to look to the Time Capsule for that library…I’ve never tried it though. Or, you could just put your movies in a folder on the Time Capsule and watch them through Front Row (I would recommend that).
#3 Leland says:Well, after testing it with a music video and a purchased movie, it works — putting them in a folder on the Time Capsule, putting an alias to it in the laptop’s Movies folder, then browsing to it via Front Row.
Slick!
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