6:57 AM on 12.12.2006
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Dyson
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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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.
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.
can convert vids to any system...
what wii need is a streamer and transcoder for wii and ps3 now
Can't wait.
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.
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?
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!
for me, i still just have s-video running to the big screen :(
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it make just easy to play avi, mkv, mp4, wmv, flv and more on Wii