Hacking Getting my Wii to play DIVX and/or DVD's

[Crimson Fog]

I looked at the n00b guide for the DVD playback for the Wii and the Download link was broken. I currently have the SoftMii (3.2u) and would like to have DVD playback capabilities in the game room.

Can anyone help with all that I need?

Thanks in advance everyone.

PS - First time poster, long time troll. ;-)

 

[WiiMonkey]

i think all you need is media Player and dvdx installed

 

[Crimson Fog]

Thats the thing. The link for the apps in the guide are broken. I was asking if anyone had them anywhere for me to download.

 

[bdr9]

http://hackmii.com/2008/08/libdi-and-the-dvdx-installer/

 

[Mark McDonut]

GeeXboX plays divx avi's too and can play them via usb hdd, i use a partitioned 400gb drive with my first partition wbfs, and my second is NTFS and i have a ton of my dvd's ripped onto it as divx 4.0 and 5.0 avi's

 

[oxMUDxo]

hold on!!!!!

If I have a Data Disc with a ton of AVIs the Wii will read it????

WHAT DO I NEED TO INSTALL?????????

 

[Crimson Fog]

http://hackmii.com/2008/08/libdi-and-the-dvdx-installer/

I tried the link and installed as stated. I put in a DVD+r and launched mPlayer. I get nothing from the screen it sticks to the mPlayer splash screen. No buttons on the Wii mote will activate anything.

I am burning off a DVD-r to see if this fixes things.

Any suggestions?

 

[paulwesley]

mplayer ce doesnt work for me but geekbox works great off the usb drive as long as its fat or fat 32 formated

 

[Mark McDonut]

mplayer ce doesnt work for me but geekbox works great off the usb drive as long as its fat or fat 32 formated

NTFS also works well and has great support in case you have any hd's larger than 32gb and want a stable filesystem (fat 32 can be sketchy with large drives on occasion, good to be safe

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[maduin]

geexbox is more stable for me, and can read NTFS, while mplayer is quicker and uses USB 2.0, but can only read my FAT32 Parts and crashes every once in a while, geexbox has never crashed on me and it can play through a folder, which is convenient for movies that are split into 2 avi's, while mplayer will only play through one file and then stop playing.

 

[Crimson Fog]

Thats the thing. The link for the apps in the guide are broken. I was asking if anyone had them anywhere for me to download.

 

[WiiMonkey]

Here is some links for you

DVDX
GeeXboX
MPlayer_CE

or you could installl this to you wii to get homebrew

Homebrew_Browser