Hacking Wii DVD Player

[Sotoro]

r u sure wiimiidia is not a fake?

No it's not a fake, they will need just more time to finish it...

 

[deba94]

The "Wii" DVD player is GameCube homebrew... so a channel can't be made of it. When someone cracks Scarlet (the Wii chip) a Wii DVD player MAY be possible.

Theres a homebrew application that allows dvd playback on the Wii?! Wow... I'm late I guess. Does anyone have a link or more info on the homebrew?

 

[jinxvorheeze]

I could only find the test release. So if you get a link set up through sendspace for the old release PM me and I'll add it to my site.

 

[WiiCrazy]

When it was not working, my configuration was : homebrew channel -> front sd elf loader -> mfe
in this configuration it did played movies but just only 10 or 15 seconds and then freezed. Needed to restart my wii held pressing power button.

Both test and old version same,

As suggested on the official thread I tried through directly TP hack and voila it plays movies fine. Though still the exceptions mentioned in below forum are still exists.

Here is the official thread, you can find here both test and old versions.
http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6900

I watched naruto (640x480, 105kbps xvid, 128kbps Lame Mp3) it runs fine only on my pal tv it pan and scanned the video and the subtitles were just sticked to the lower edge of the screen and some of course some video cropped.

Since doing TP hack everytime I want to watch video is a bit much I'll now try it running it directly through homebrew channel removing the intermediate front sd elf loader. If it runs fine then I can switch forth and back between front sd elf loader and mfe.

Edit: Now tested, both versions freezes into playing movie for some 10-15 seconds.

Launching directly with TP hack both old and test versions play fine, old version has better error handling hence you can stop movie return to the menu and play another file and such and test version has some occasional problems, it plays a 700mb movie just fine (which old version didn't) but when you want to return to the menu stopping the playback it freezes.

Conclusion : Stick to the old version launching it with the TP hack to watch series (175MB-350MB)

 

[raid168]

I guess soft-mod will enable wii to play digital video files

 

[dodgypast]

MFE has handled 1.7Gb movies flawlessly for me.

Are you talking about the wii-version or the gc.version? And do you use sd-card or a dvd?

Because I had problems (freezing after a while) with running movies on the mfe-wii-version when I boot the movie from my sd-card...

This might be due to running it from the homebrew channel.

Tried with the Paradox homebrew channel and another 0.4 updated one and both of them froze MFE within about 20 seconds of the video going on. Seen the same complaint elsewhere as well.

After that finally tried the TP trick and exactly the same MFE files are working 100%, quite useful as well because it's currently the only way I have to watch movies I download away from the computer.

 

[jinxvorheeze]

Just tested using the Twilight hack only, no launcher and works great. Using the test version allows you to swap the SD card out. This is a great feature if you are going to be watching a few movies or alot of anime in a row. Saves from having to restart the MFE everytime you wanna watch a different movie (If you only have a 1GB SD card. You can even remove the SD card and swap the video from it and reinsert it into the Wii and MFE will register it. Excellent program while waiting for WiiMiidia, if you still need WiiMiidia after using this. Has played everything i've thrown at it.

 

[TrainerAbu]

Woah....

So does the quality suffer a lot? Like if I try watching a 720p one piece episode on my huge HDTV using this, will it be all JPEGable and ugly =X?

Edit: Oook this pwns. I can't get the newer release of Naruto/Bleach to work though =X and I forgot about trying One Piece.. But yeah

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