Hacking MPlayer Wii CHANNEL!!!

[djdynamite123]

very true

shame its not as fancy as geexbox but nevermind that very buggy

 

[rodries]

So, here's the channel for rodries' first version from today.

Meaning:
- no crashes on exit (returns to Wii menu)
- Wiimote power off function (shuts down Wii)
- reads video files from dvds

Created for region 2, I don't know if it works on NTSC, couldn't find a explanation for WAD regions. Please be careful. It works perfectly on PAL Wiis, I tested it.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ze2skw

All credits are in the ZIP file. Thanks for everyone involved! IMHO it's the best Media Channel ever!

Have you test smb browsing?
And streamming ?

I have no time to do test.
My next goal is try to compile mplayer myself to add subtitle and avoid code dumps when transfer rate is low.
But probably i'll began to study the code next week, so I don't think that I'll do it soon, at least 2 or 3 weeks.

 

[djdynamite123]

rodries read my PM to you

i haven't got SMB working

 

[zerof]

SMB browser works fine for me. The playback isn't that great however, I would say it's unwatchable.

 

[rodries]

SMB browser works fine for me. The playback isn't that great however, I would say it's unwatchable.

The problem is that nintendo wifi driver is very slow. Transfer rate is like usb but is not a stable.
So you only can watch films, using samba, with low rate.

If nintendo improve his lan in an IOS then it will works fine.

Has anybody compared mplayer samba with geexbox samba?

 

[zerof]

SMB browser works fine for me. The playback isn't that great however, I would say it's unwatchable.

The problem is that nintendo wifi driver is very slow. Transfer rate is like usb but is not a stable.
So you only can watch films, using samba, with low rate.

If nintendo improve his lan in an IOS then it will works fine.

Has anybody compared mplayer samba with geexbox samba?

Oh, I might look into geexbox later.. I didn't know it had that feature yet.

 

[djdynamite123]

my smb not bad!!
just say your playing a 700mb avi
it will take about 20seconds for it to kick through properly then its perfect

THANX RODIES!!!!
bugs, it can go slow motion and clippy

 

[zerof]

my smb not bad!!
just say your playing a 700mb avi
it will take about 20seconds for it to kick through properly then its perfect

THANX RODIES!!!!
bugs, it can go slow motion and clippy

Yea, same here. I've also had the picture go scrambled and I had to do a hard reset. As well as audio problems.

 

[djdynamite123]

bugs, it can go slow motion and clippy

if it tries crashing, just hit home it goes back to browsing films immediately

 

[ganons]

i tried an mkv of deathnote not sure what bitrate it was but it crashes instantly
I tried a blu ray rip xvid video with these specs:

Video : 1778 XviD
Bits per Pixel : 0.329
Resolution : 720 x 300
Frame RAte : 25.00 Fps
Audio : English 448 kbps AC3 6 channels
Subtitles :
SA : B VOP,No Qpel,No GMC
Video Size : 1.45 GB

and it played perfect
so far..............

 

[djdynamite123]

cant handle (big) files like that

how do i use SMB with GeeXbox?? HELP

Network sources
If you want to use shoutcast/icecast etc., remember to set long blacklist or short white list in GEEXBOX/etc/netstream. Better still, just define a few netstreams pointing to the broadcasts you desire and disable shoutcast/icecast scan. The reason for this is because every broadcast url obtained by GeeXboX from scanning the server is saved in Wii memory as a playlist file. Thousands of such small files soon eat up all available space. For uPnP shares over lan, avoid exporting huge and complex directories.

hmm do i just put in the same as in mplayerwii #stream etc

 

[ganons]

what is SMB?

 

[harryk]

Samba is a network protocol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)

 

[djdynamite123]

network support

 

[ganons]

is there an alternative mkv player?

 

[djdynamite123]

is there an alternative mkv player?

no...geexbox etc doesn't support mkv i'm sure

can anyone tell me how to get geexbox smb working, cheers

 

[felix123]

Great job rodries!

what is SMB?
Windows file sharing.
QUOTE(rodries @ Nov 21 2008, 10:00 AM) If nintendo improve his lan in an IOS then it will works fine.

Would the new IOSes make a difference?

 

[thetonman]

Does anyone know if this new version will work on an australian PAL Wii Region 4 we are???


Thanks in advance

Thetonman

 

[djdynamite123]

Does anyone know if this new version will work on an australian PAL Wii Region 4 we are???

yeah no problem

 

[thetonman]

Thanks will try now post back in 5 mins

thetonman