24 Hours of Leopard: Front Row

I have just upgraded and it looks nice, and is quite snappy compared to the old one, BUT. It won't play my Divx files anymore. It displayes the 1st frame on the vid, but when I start it it is no sound and no picture. The counter is running though. Anybody with the same problem ?

I am disappointed with the new Front Row mainly because of the diminished font-sizes. I cannot read it from across the room if it is running on my laptop. :-( The flipping effect while playing a song is also a disappointing trade-off for the larger scrolling song title. Seems like Apple traded usability for style in many aspects of the new OS. Disappointing indeed.

Frontrow does not remember the time position of moviefiles!! I watch a lot of TV via frontrow that I have recorded via EyeTV. I tend to do do stuff in the middle of a program and put on some music. When I returned to the show it started from the beginning. Tested if it was just that time or just that file but it didn't remember one single position.This makes my whole Front Row experience S--K!

@Doug.

CMD+Esc to activate FR - Esc to exit.

For those of you wondering how to get the "old style" front-row back, here's a little How-To that should help.

1.) Go into the System->Library->Core Services folder and archive your current copy of Front Row.app.
2.) Delete Front Row.app
3.) Download and install Front Row 1.3.1 (google it or get it off your Tiger DVD if you have one).
4.) *Optional* Install the Front Row Update off of the Apple Website.
5.) Reboot.

TA DA. The "Old" Front Row is back. Complete with the fade-out transition, and the ability to keep playing music etc when going in and out of FR.

I upgraded to Leopard partly to make my Mac Mini a home theater driver with Front Row, but I have such a basic question I haven't seen answered anywhere, maybe you can help . . . How do I start Front Row? I don't see any Icon for it anywhere! Any suggestions??

Thanks

I sure as hell, am NOT going to miss the non-alphabetical order in my TV Shows List. Talk about f**king annoying. My favorite part of THAT fearture is the fact that the order would consistently change everytime you added new TV Shows and Movies.

Yeah, bye.

Leopard version of FrontRow does NOT work on the second display: not even if you do mirroring. I hope it is a bug anyway. For someone, a solution exists:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196581

Seems to work fine if you:

Open System Preferences
Go to displays, then Arrangement
Drag the menu bar across to the secondary display

Not the most elegant of solutions, but I'm sure it'll work for the time being, till we get a proper fix from Apple.

With regards to the second display video playing issue: I had it working yesterday, and I have no idea how, but today it's decided to do the same black screen with audio playing thing. If I figure out what I did yesterday, I'll let you know. Was very happy when it worked, albeit briefly, but now kinda dissappointed!