Hacking USB Loader - Media Launch?

[LexLuthor]

Im sorry, Im sure this has probably been asked many times before.. but still.

Im new to the whole USB Loader thing (I didnt have a HD till yesterday, and frankly couldn't be bothered to read about something I couldn't have).

So I was wondering.
Is there anyway to launch media (ie. Video, Audio files) off the USB Hard Drive? Perhaps though channel like MPlayerWii?

Thanks in advance.

 

[tube83]

i use mplayer ce and it supports usb hdds just fine

 

[Kosaic]

Not in WBFS mode though, if I'm not mistaken.

WBFS only works with the USB Loader

Correct me if I'm wrong, but dont think.

 

[LexLuthor]

Cool thanks.
But can it support hard drives formatted to work with the new Wii USB loader?

 

[tube83]

Not in WBFS mode though, if I'm not mistaken.

WBFS only works with the USB Loader

Correct me if I'm wrong, but dont think.

i think you're right. the partition i use in mplayer is fat32. don't know about other file systems. i'm pretty sure WBFS is not supported though... i think when the last version of mplayer released wbfs didn't even exist

 

[MightyMouse]

no, but just split partition your drive

i've got my drive split 50/50 WBFS for games and FAT32 for media.

both work fine

edit - yer as thc420 says use GeexboX over Mplayer_ce it seems to deal with 2 partitions better than mplayer.

 

[thc42O]

make 2 partitions. format one to WBFS and one to Fat32, Install geexbox via the homebrew browser.

 

[LexLuthor]

Sounds like a plan. Thanks guys!

 

[Mark McDonut]

Geexbox can support NTFS too and recognized the format on the second partition (I made a wbfs, ntfs, fat32 and fat16 in that order) and I watch entire xvid movie rips I made from dvds @ 768 video 192 audio and they stream fine with the new usb 2.0 and look great on a 32" hd with components.

Watchin The Warriors right now

 

[SomeGuy2009]

I am currently using a 250GB external harddrive 3.5" with 2 partitions. 1 formatted wbfs and the other formatted fat32 for mplayer ce v4 and they both work fine reading the correct partition.

hope this helps.

someguy

 

[LexLuthor]

I created a NTFS partition on my hard drive but MPlayerWii CE can't detect it (well nothing comes up when I click load from USB).
Windows didn't seem to give me the option to format to fat32.
Do I have to make the Media partition a primary partition? Or am I doing something else wrong?
My firmware is 4.0 (although I have everything enabled and junk).

 

[Midnightzak]

Use GeeXbox instead. I've been using since I first installed the homebrew channel months ago watching movies off of my flash drive. It has a very slick interface.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/GeeXboX

 

[LexLuthor]

Use GeeXbox instead. I've been using since I first installed the homebrew channel months ago watching movies off of my flash drive. It has a very slick interface.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/GeeXboX

I should do, I know.
However, I've always had trouble launching the GeeXboX (in that I can't).
It gives me a very fast scrolling error that says something along the lines of (if I can remember correctly):

"SQUASHFS: error (unable to read page)"

Its very annoying, and I can't really find any useful solution to it online.