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Your Wii can now play DivX files: The pr0n floodgates have opened
6:57 AM on 12.12.2006, Dyson 16 comments

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Hooray for homebrew! The recently released Wii Video 9 allows you to convert your video files (mpeg, divx, avi, etc.) into a playable format for your Wii. By converting the files into the MJPEG format and then transferring them to your SD Card, you can watch video through the picture channel on your Wii. The clip above is from Siliconera and demonstrates the final outcome.

The player (made by Red Kawa) is free, but you're going to want to spring for a bigger SD Card to take advantage of the program. Apparently, the conversion process increases the file size quite a bit. I haven't been able to try this out myself since I don't have a Wii, so go try it on your own and let me know how it works out. Please don't tell me what type of files you converted, though. I doubt that most of you will be using this function to watch old episodes of Buffy on the tv. (Insert your favorite Wii+porn joke here)

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startreker at 12/12/2006 08:08
This has been out since almost day one surprisingly. The quality of my videos turned out to be less then satisifying when I tried it out but that was partly due to the fact it doesn't do well converting already compressed audio/video files. If I had spent the time to uncompress it first and then re-compress it, it would have probably worked much better. I don't think this will ever replace my normal way of watching videos but it is kind of fun for short videos. It turned my 60MB, nice quality 7 min. 43 sec. video into an ugly video that is 194MB large. I will admit though that the different elements that you can use for the pictures like the doodle, and puzzle elements are fun to play around with in real-time while the video is playing.
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BluDesign at 12/12/2006 08:13
Well, the reason for the large file sizes... Red Kawa's encoder only does WAV audio, no compression, and is doing 2Mb/s video. Compare that in contrast to your average BT'd TV show or movie. They're usually done in Mpeg4 at 1Mb/s with AAC or MP3 audio. Motion JPEG is one of the higher video compressors out there, ranking slightly below MiniDV in this instance (MJPEG can be cranked up as high as 10-15 Mb/s)

Wii Video 9 is broken, IMO. I tried it out and it didn't like what I gave it in several different tests. I don't know if it's the .NET crap that bundles with it, or if it's Videora still being broken as it was for the PSP and iPod, but it's crashed on me everytime I've tried to encode with it.

I hope given enough time, someone can develop some rudimentary tools/plugins to get MJPEG support on VirtualDub or ffMpegX. Until then, the Wii is in the realm of pictures only in my system.
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BluDesign at 12/12/2006 08:16
Treker,

It does this large expansion because it's basically taking your video and making a ton of JPEG's with it. JPEG's aren't nearly as compressed as what DivX or H.264 are doing to a frame of video, hence the blocky oversized result.
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PodMonkeys at 12/12/2006 08:36
I might have to try this again. I converted several vids, and none of them would play.
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JamesSorensen at 12/12/2006 10:24
ps3video9 been out for long time and had wii support


can convert vids to any system...

what wii need is a streamer and transcoder for wii and ps3 now
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moclippa at 12/12/2006 10:41
"Madness? This IS SPARTA!"

Can't wait.
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BluDesign at 12/12/2006 12:38
PS3 video 9 is the same program as Wii Video 9. The just changed the name of the App, and left the Wii as the default console. If you look at the settings for it, it's all the same. Has options to do PS3 video in it.
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hovercraft at 12/12/2006 13:17
saying that the wii can now play divx is a little misleading. I haven't used wii video 9, but i use psp video 9 and it works great!
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Oni at 12/12/2006 14:02
I found this a couple of days ago. I converted a 20MB DivX file with it, and it blew up to about 160MB. About 8 times the previous size. The file played without a hitch, which was cool (it was the Wii Winner video from when I won my Wii, actually. I stripped it off of YouTube and saved it :))

The Wii doesn't really have a lot of functionality for playing videos. You can't pause, fast forward or rewind them, which makes it inconvenient for play really. It's still something that's kinda cool, I guess. I'm sure Nintendo could very easily add the functionality later with an update.
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Namelessted at 12/12/2006 14:35
This doesn't matter. Because its still horribly inconvenient to play the movies with the Wii. I have to put them on my SD card, then put it in my Wii. Why not a USB device? why not over the network? That is what they need to do, but doing something that the consumer would actually use is way too much to ask of Nintendo. I am just waiting for some majoy Linux on my Wii to get all the features that i want to use it for on top of gaming. Nintendo is going to have to start jerking off because the fanboys will slowly go away and there will be no blowjobs left.
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cmotd at 12/12/2006 19:30
?????????????????????????????


For God's sake, why would anyone bother? That's like having to discover the oil, drill it out and refine it into petrol every time you want to drive your car. Only for Wii-tards?
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WiiPlayer at 12/12/2006 21:16
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WiiPlayer at 12/12/2006 21:18
It still is kind of fun to play with the videos. You can covert to a video jigsaw and doodle over the playing video. Wow, I can be like John Madden now!
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seamonkey420 at 12/12/2006 23:41
been using myself but i prefer to use pics and mp3s for a nice music photoshow as bg noise..

my video was good but only when the source was good. now if we can get the sizes down, then i'll look at putting my music vids on a sd or if usb hds are ever allowed (future?), watch out!
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