Hacking How to make MFE player working??

[leocamilo]

Does anyone know what do I need to get MFE player working?? When I load it using the homebrew channel, all I get is a black screen with loads of letters scrolling very fast. When they stop, the program tells me that it couldn't find the file "mfe\mfe.bzs2" (or something like that, don't remember).
Where can I get this file? And how should the structure of folders be like? Can I play .avi files directly from my SD card, or just play a DVD??
Thanks a lot

 

[WiiCrazy]

the one in the sticky hbc apps thread is incomplete get the 1.1 version from here
http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?p=28592

you should copy the mfe folder in the archive to the root of the sd card to make it work.

 

[leocamilo]

Thanks!! Can I play .avi files directly from my SD card??

 

[thepspgamer]

you should be able to, it supports most file types

 

[leocamilo]

Well, I finally got it to work, but when I select my video, it says: "Starting playback... May take a bit..." and stays in this screen for a loooong time. I pressed some buttons in my GC controller and it went back to the folders screen. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

 

[Linguist]

Some AVI-files don't work on my SD card with MFE.
My guess: MFE ist not supporting all codecs that could be in the avi-container.
Mplayer on Win or Linux can play all files.

Is there a list of all supported formats by MFE?

 

[teq]

The MFE only plays files with short names.

Spaces and odd characters cause it to load improperly or not at all.

 

[leocamilo]

well, considering the video I tried to watch was named 'blue seed 06.avi', I don't think it's a big name after all...

 

[Trolly]

Well just eliminate the spaces and numbers and it might help. And, yeah, does anyone know whether there's a list of the supported codecs? (Echoing what a lot of other people have said).

 

[leocamilo]

IT WORKED!! Thanks!!
But there is other problem though... after about 20 seconds, the video just freezes and the program crashes... I have to turn off my wii to get back to the wii menu. Can anyone help?

 

[teq]

well, considering the video I tried to watch was named 'blue seed 06.avi', I don't think it's a big name after all...

The space makes it long.

Short names have no spaces.

Well just eliminate the spaces and numbers and it might help. And, yeah, does anyone know whether there's a list of the supported codecs? (Echoing what a lot of other people have said).

MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
MPEG-4 ASP in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), XviD
MPEG-4 AVC aka H.264
Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL)
RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2)
RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries)
Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs
DV video
3ivx
Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2)
Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs)
VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL)
MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
FLI/FLC
HuffYUV
various old simple RLE-like formats

MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio
AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
AAC (MPEG-4 audio)
WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2
WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs)
RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries)
RealAudio: DNET and older codecs
QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries), ALAC
Ogg Vorbis audio
VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL)
alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio formats


That's straight from the Mplayer website.

 

[teq]

IT WORKED!! Thanks!!
But there is other problem though... after about 20 seconds, the video just freezes and the program crashes... I have to turn off my wii to get back to the wii menu. Can anyone help?

Told you so.


First, see if it's the homebrew launcher and use the Twilight hack to load it.

Then, get Gspot Codec Information and report back with the Video and Audio codecs used.

 

[leocamilo]

I got it to work... but the video is freezing... any help?

 

[teq]

Look at the post right above yours....

 

[leocamilo]

Ok, I'll look right away and come back to tell you guys.

Edit: Where can I get this Gspot Codec Information???

Edit2: Ok, I got, how can I upload a picture to show you the information?

 

[teonintyfive]

the program tells me that it couldn't find the file "mfe\mfe.bzs2"

Whoops! Crap! I knew I forgot something! Silly me!

edit: I uploaded a fixed package in the sticky. Check the most recent post by me there (page 8)

 

[sean0007]

Go to image shack and upload the image file, copy the provided links for forum after the upload and paste it into a reply.

 

[skedone]

strange coz every file i throw at mine works no matter what the codec or the name

 

[thepspgamer]

and you are running it via the homebrew channel, cause, mine like everyone elses just freezes after 30 seconds

and are you using an NTSC or PAL wii?

 

[Linguist]

.h264 in an avi-container does not work for me.
According to the list codecs supported by mediaplayer it uses the x86 DLL for this. I guess this is not included in MFE.