Wii DVD Player

[captain^k]

this is a fake, look here: http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/dvd_site/img/menu2.jpg


From the source, 2nd page:

QUOTE(wiivision @ May 20 2007, 01:08 AM)Video Demonstration
Ok my camera sucks (webcam) so bare with the quality. But this is more to demonstrate the controls and usage of the app. The DVD being played is running at near DVD quality output so things are working better now without the menu ui.

So enjoy the video:
http://www.wiivision.org/downloads/wiidvdplayer.wmv

 

[captain^k]

this is a fake, look here: http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/dvd_site/img/menu2.jpg

http://psx-scene.com/forums/showpost.php?p...07&postcount=45

It will be interesting to see what he says

 

[7llusion]

I think this is a fakeI've got 2 reasons:
-Nintendo said that the Wii couldn't play DVD's because of the hardware(hard to believe since Wii can read DL DVD's)
-The video doesn't show the wii booting the homebrew...
Illusion

 

[robi]

Nintendo said the Wii couldn't play video DVDs because they didn't include a software DVD player.

Already there is the MFE media player that can play unencrypted MPEG2 .VOB files perfectly fine, all that had to be added in was DeCSS and menu support.

The PowerPC processor in the Wii is absolutely powerful enough to play DVDs, as is the GameCube....however, considering that the GameCube laser can't read past the ~ 1.4Gb boundary it would be of limited use on that platform, even with a 3rd party case allowing full size DVDs to fit.

 

[imgod22222]

:'(

 

[iamwhoiam]

NP the project is now closed

edit: LOL

 

[thebert]

Yay! Homebrew that will burn out my laser faster!

 

[imgod22222]

O.o How do you reach that conclusion, thebert?

 

[7llusion]

Ithink he's saying that since some people managed to break their PS2 lasers when playing DVD's, but I don't think that this is that serious...
Illusion

 

[Xandu]

That video doesn't even show anything, he just swings his controller around..

Too bad it's fake..

He reminds me of PSDonkey and his Ultimate64

 

[imgod22222]

Wow. if you can break your laser while playing a DVD...
1) You must have one sharp DVD.
2) You must be incredibly stupid.
3) A combination of the two?

 

[adgloride]

Really nice, I thought Nintendo would do that themself.

It would have cost Nintendo an extra $10 to add DVD to the wii. I think it would have been a good idea. Another good idea would have been to make the wii double as a media centre so it payed Xvid and a few other video formats. An article about the $10 cost, I think its $10 anyway. They have to pay this to toshiba for using the DVD format or something. An article about this was on wiki but I can't find it.

 

[moloko23]

I really hope it's not fake! This would be some great homebrew if it really did work!

 

[CockroachMan]

As far as I know, if the Wii can read a DVD disc, then it should be able to play a DVD movie, as long as it have the software for that.
Nintendo could make a Wii dvd player for everyone with just a simple firmware update..

 

[Harsky]

As far as I know, if the Wii can read a DVD disc, then it should be able to play a DVD movie, as long as it have the software for that.
Nintendo could make a Wii dvd player for everyone with just a simple firmware update..

If it was that simple, they would've released the firmware update now since DVD playback is still a selling point in a console anyways.

 

[7llusion]

Remember that Nintendo is going to team up with Sonic Solutions to make a DVD-able Wii, since its completely new hardware and not a channel via the shop channel we can assume that it is because of the hardware(Nintendo scared of breaking lasers?)
Illusion

 

[Rankio]

As far as I know, if the Wii can read a DVD disc, then it should be able to play a DVD movie, as long as it have the software for that.
Nintendo could make a Wii dvd player for everyone with just a simple firmware update..

If it was that simple, they would've released the firmware update now since DVD playback is still a selling point in a console anyways.

It really is that easy though. To do so, there are licensing fees. I guess Nintendo doesn't want to spend that money or have the customer do so. Either that or just keep the Wii focused on games.

 

[CockroachMan]

As far as I know, if the Wii can read a DVD disc, then it should be able to play a DVD movie, as long as it have the software for that.
Nintendo could make a Wii dvd player for everyone with just a simple firmware update..

If it was that simple, they would've released the firmware update now since DVD playback is still a selling point in a console anyways.

It really is that easy though. To do so, there are licensing fees. I guess Nintendo doesn't want to spend that money or have the customer do so. Either that or just keep the Wii focused on games.

indeed.. nowadays, copyrights and patents increase the cost of electronic products a lot! Nintendo would probably have to pay royalties to a lot of companies to have the Wii playing dvd movies, increasing the Wii price.

 

[tjas]

Ok my camera sucks (webcam) so bare with the quality. But this is more to demonstrate the controls and usage of the app. The DVD being played is running at near DVD quality output so things are working better now without the menu ui.

So enjoy the video:
http://www.wiivision.org/downloads/wiidvdplayer.wmv

With some heavy research and coding, I was able to get 1 (so far) DL Store Bought DVD to play just the same as a SL. This has been one of the biggest downfalls so far in this project but it looks like we may have resolved it. And no, it is not dependent on what chip you have. I tested it on 3 current chips all working flawlessly.

The modchip only acts as a gateway for the code to run (in GC mode). Beyond that, we have all the hardware capability the GC (and Wii DVD Drive) has to offer. The app mounts the DVD drive in the manor of which I tell it to. A linux DVD Mount (driver) has been written from scratch for this project in order to support ALL DVD MEDIA (accept HD/BlueRay... duh).

So those of you in doubt, clear your critisizm and hop on the bandwagon. The Wii is about to be upgraded courtesy of your friendly open source developers.

Progress is still going good and I now can confirm over 10 DL discs working properly on 3 modchips.

So also dvd 9 support!

QUOTE

Update: 5-22-2007

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Small update.

Everything is still moving along smothly. We've implemented the subtitles support for both US and PAL, for some reason the JAP subtitles are not taking well but we'll figure it out soon. Right now we have 3 seperate builds, 1 for each region. We'd like to consolidate it into 1 but on the first attempt to do so, the quality was really lacking (due to taking ram away from the decoder and using it for the app). So most likely we will place 3 builds on 1 ISO and create an option to choose the region upon booting the app. Unfortunately this meens that if you swap 1 region dvd for another region dvd, you'll have to reboot the app and select the new region, then load the dvd. I don't think too many people will complain though as it is a small inconvience.

 

[R4seller]

Will it damage the WII if always play DVD?