Plugins to improve Front Row

This is an article of Cristina Ruiz Beltrán.

Of course you already will know Front Row, the average center that Mac OS includes, but: do you know that it is possible to improve it?. Plex is other of the programs of named average center, probably one of the best for Mac, but also others exist as I Boxed and XBMC. And if also we use EyeTV to see the live television, Front Row is, in my opinion, the perfect platform to assemble all of them.

For it simply we will have to discharge and install the necessary plugins, here some of us make you compatible with Snow Leopard:

• Box Plugin to execute Boxes.
• EyeTV Plugin to execute EyeTV.
• Hulu Plugin to execute Hulu.
• MythTV Plugin to execute MythTV.
• Plex Plugin to execute Plex.
• XBMC Plugin to execute XBMC.

The installation is very easy: only the image is necessary to mount that we will unburden ourselves and to drag the icon of the plugin to the folder that is nearby. As this folder is protected, the system will ask you for the manager's key. If you do not see the plugin on having initiated Front Row, we will need to begin it again opening a Terminal meeting and to introduce the following thing:

killall FrontRow

For desinstalar some of the plugins go to:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app / Contents / PlugIns /

The plugin is a folder that finishes in.frappliance. It erases the entire folder and I list. I have proved personally that of Boxee, that of Plex and that of EyeTV. The only one that has given me problems is that of Boxee, which does not take well at all with Apple Remote in Snow Leopard, but evidently it is a fault of the application, not of the plugin. For it I do not recommend it for Snow Leopard, but if you continue in Leopard or previous, it is possible that it works.

I hope that it should turn out to be useful to you.

More information: Front Row plugins

This is an article of Cristina Ruiz Beltrán.