DVD player would be cool. However, i think the DVD drive in the wii is not quite the same as the one from a DVD player. I am afraid playing DVDs would reduce the life of the dvd-drive quite fast.

However, i am sure most media applications will incorporate USB support as soon as the ehci driver (USB2.0) is written by THE guys from libogc

 

mod chips say hi.

 

I agree that DVD player while would be awesome, would not be a good idea for the wii dvd drive lol.
However one thing i would LOVE to have is USB 2.0 support for a hard drive to store EVERYTHING, homebrew, emulators, MP3 music for the players we have, wads etc.
And to go along with it id like to see maybe a Divx or xvid player from said USB hardrive, with a nice GUI using wiimote pointer (sorry but mfeplayer is tough to navigate and 1 short movie per sd card sucks lol)

 

The Wii's drive is just as resillient as any other drive, but DVD is a dead format.

The Wii's USB ports, are in fact, USB 2. Nintendo has to enable high speed transfer through the IOS first, though.


For those using the MFE, TCP or USB support should be coming soon.

 

Depends on the encoding.

Most DVDs that are transcoded to XViD run at around 900KBps, while full speed USB 1.0 operates at 1.5MBps. So, technically, USB 1.0 could handle MPEG4.

High definition videos, however, would require USB 2.0, but the Wii could probably only handle 720P... and that's with full utilization of the GPU.

 

Uh... thanks for that...

 

Anyone know if a media extender application in wad form is gonna be released? like, not used through the internet channel? like a full blown media player with network capabilities?

 

it seems stupid to have usb support when network support is ideally better in every way, for those of use that have servers / computers we can just stream from it rather then connecting a media storage device to watch it. makes more sense imo. screw portable media. tcp/ip is the way to go.