Gaming Black Wii, play DVD movies possible?

[Delirious17]

Tried MPlayer-CE and it just sat there...is DVD movie playback possible on the new Black Wiis?

Gah WiiMC just gave me an invalid DVD message too.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Black wiis have a new optical drive; any discs besides wii discs will not load.

 

[kimikal27]

think you're a bit lost...

 

[Delirious17]

DAMN IT ALL! Will it ever be fixed/hacked into place to work with burnt optical media or DVD movies?!

 

[elmariachi]

nope it won't ...

just read the movies from SD/USB

 

[corolla0305]

The LG series of DVD readers we use to RawDump Wii Discs, are there any reader/burner types of this.... if you finalized with one of them, would that be possible??
I only think there came out in a reader thou...

 

[HaniKazmi]

There are burners, but the don't burn the same way as wii discs so it wouldn't work.

 

[doped505069]

Did u buy a black wii should have just bought a case and done it urself.

 

[Hakoda]

nope it won't ...

just read the movies from SD/USB

This.

 

[ZombiePosessor]

nope it won't ...

just read the movies from SD/USB

This.

Exactly. Also if you have wireless, WiiMC can stream videos from your PC to your Wii via wireless signal

 

[Salax]

Black wiis have a new optical drive; any discs besides legit wii discs will not load.

And legit Gamecube disks.

 

[Delirious17]

Bump, any updates on if this has been made possible?

 

[FIX94]

Bump, any updates on if this has been made possible?

no its not.

 

[bowser]

Sorry, it's still not possible.

 

[Taleweaver]

Bump, any updates on if this has been made possible?

I don't think you understood what was said in June: the limitation is in the disc drive. It more accurately checks the legitimacy of wii discs. It WILL NOT read anything but legit wii discs and gamecube disks. It's a physical limitation, which can only be dealt with physical actions.


In other words: find yourself an old wii drive and install that in your wii drive, or accept that it isn't going to happen.

 

[WiiPower]

The old drives had a mode for video dvds, apparently it was planned that the Wii will be able to play them. Homebrew DVD players, backup disc loaders, and flatcable modchips(that read DVD-Rs) exploit this capability.

Well, maybe there's a media player that plays video dvds from an external dvd drive.

 

[KazoWAR]

IIRC WiiMC can load DVD iso from usb and play the menus and stuff.