Hacking Time for an idiotic question regarding DVDX!

Skyline969 · Jun 20, 2010

Well, my Wii is completely softmodded (via a guide that I found on here). I have a D3-2 drive and firmware 4.2U. However, I want to play DVDs (non-burned, retail DVDs) in my Wii. I heard DVDX can do this, and then I can use something called MPlayer (or something to that effect). However, I tried looking for a guide and people just say to use the HackMii installer.... HackMii was already used on my Wii, though, to install BootMii (as an IOS, my Wii is too new to support boot2) and the Homebrew Channel.

Anyways, if someone could tell me what to do (is it as simple as installing DVDX and MPlayer via Homebrew Browser?), I'd greatly appreciate it.

thehritzinator · Jun 20, 2010

U have to get another DVD drive, either buy an external or get a new one for the inside of your wii. Then DVDX can let u watch DVD movies

Skyline969 · Jun 20, 2010

Ah, so the D3-2 doesn't allow playback of ANY DVD at all? Well, that sucks.

thehritzinator · Jun 20, 2010

Skyline969 said:
Ah, so the D3-2 doesn't allow playback of ANY DVD at all? Well, that sucks.

Nope sorry. The new drives cant play Backups on DVDs or Movies on DVDs. Sorry.

Skyline969 · Jun 20, 2010

thehritzinator said:
Skyline969 said:

Ah, so the D3-2 doesn't allow playback of ANY DVD at all? Well, that sucks.

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Nope sorry. The new drives cant play Backups on DVDs or Movies on DVDs. Sorry.

Ah alright. I knew it couldn't play burned DVDs, hence why I use a USB loader for my backups. However, I thought it could play legitimate DVDs. I was mistaken apparently. Thanks for the info.

Fear_the_Tubes · Jun 20, 2010

You can play video from the HDD though! Why not give that a try? The Wii isn't that great of a DVD player anyway.

Drag0nflamez · Jun 20, 2010

Fear_the_Tubes said:
You can play video from the HDD though! Why not give that a try? The Wii isn't that great of a DVD player anyway.

yea it lags like hell when RWing & FFing - get yourself a real dvd player ;-)

but hdd video might work out using MPlayer CE

tj_cool · Jun 20, 2010

You can play DVDs with WiiMC, though you'll need to install IOS202 first.

snikerz · Jun 20, 2010

tj_cool said:
You can play DVDs with WiiMC, though you'll need to install IOS202 first.
QUOTE(Skyline969 @ Jun 20 2010, 03:59 AM) I have a D3-2 drive.

tj_cool · Jun 20, 2010

snikerz said:
tj_cool said:

You can play DVDs with WiiMC, though you'll need to install IOS202 first.
QUOTE(Skyline969 @ Jun 20 2010, 03:59 AM) I have a D3-2 drive.

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Oops, I wanted to say Videos from USB

Skyline969 · Jun 21, 2010

I could, but my external hard drive is formatted WBFS. Does the Wii support multiple partitions?

djtaz · Jun 21, 2010

Skyline969 said:
I could, but my external hard drive is formatted WBFS. Does the Wii support multiple partitions?

If you try to resize your WBFS partition you will lose all your games.
If you start off with multiple partitions it works ok - i have 3 on mine - Fat32 , wbfs and NTFS and it works fine.

You just need to have another drive to play with in order to move the games around if ur reformatting it.

Skyline969 · Jun 21, 2010

djtaz said:
Skyline969 said:

I could, but my external hard drive is formatted WBFS. Does the Wii support multiple partitions?

Click to expand...

If you try to resize your WBFS partition you will lose all your games.
If you start off with multiple partitions it works ok - i have 3 on mine - Fat32 , wbfs and NTFS and it works fine.

You just need to have another drive to play with in order to move the games around if ur reformatting it.

True, but I can just use WBFS Tool to copy them to my laptop's HDD. However, how does Configurable USB Loader (or any homebrew, for that matter) know which partition to load from on my HDD? Or can I specify?

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Skyline969 · Jun 21, 2010

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Kryptical · Jun 21, 2010

Skyline969 said:
djtaz said:

Skyline969 said:

I could, but my external hard drive is formatted WBFS. Does the Wii support multiple partitions?

Click to expand...

If you try to resize your WBFS partition you will lose all your games.
If you start off with multiple partitions it works ok - i have 3 on mine - Fat32 , wbfs and NTFS and it works fine.

You just need to have another drive to play with in order to move the games around if ur reformatting it.

Click to expand...

True, but I can just use WBFS Tool to copy them to my laptop's HDD. However, how does Configurable USB Loader (or any homebrew, for that matter) know which partition to load from on my HDD? Or can I specify?

WBFS portion has to be the first portion for CFG Loader to load.

dsfanatic5 · Jun 21, 2010

If you've softmodded your Wii, you're probably into pirating. Just download your movies in AVI format, drop them on your external drive, and play them that way. That's what my grandma does.

xzxero · Jun 21, 2010

youre grandma knows how to download avi's?

sweet.

ehayes427 · Jun 21, 2010

u can watch dvds on the wii.

i have before no problem.

TRushInfo · Jun 21, 2010

johncenafan427 said:
u can watch dvds on the wii.

i have before no problem.

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