Insights into integrating with Front Row

As Mac users might want to use Miro content with iTunes and/or Front Row, here are some insights I have:

Front Row (but not iTunes) can play media from "watched folders"; select Video/Movies/ and scroll to the very bottom to see the folder heirarchy insider your ~/Movies folder. Front Row will also play aliases put here. But Miro throws everything in a single folder and Front Row only shows the first ~15 characters which makes it very hard to browse without organizing.

Front Row/iTunes CAN play Divx, avi, wmv, and anything Quicktime + plugins can play. Front Row does this by default, but you have to trick iTunes into playing them: Quicktime (might be a Pro feature only) can save a file with a .mov extension that references the movie. Think of it the way a file can be added to iTunes as a reference instead of copying the original file. These reference files can be imported to iTunes and then played just fine.

The ideal way to go is to let Miro keep seeding content for as long as it's on the hard drive. This makes for more challenges: the content can't altered in any way including moving, encoding, or editing metadata. Of course it can be copied, but then you double the content size and double the maintenance work.