Homebrew Homebrew app WiiMC freezes during DVD play.

[Pro70Crazy]

I want to play one of my old DVDs i found in the attic to find out whats inside. Since My old DVD player is broken, I decided to use WiiMC, Some of the DVD I inserted it says Unsupported DVD since it's clear that's either DVD, DVD-R, or DVD-RW (or maybe it's Blu-Ray). Some of the DVD freezes tight after clicking the interactive card to play the movie, Some of them freezes in the middle of the movie, And some of them Won't interact when clicking some settings on the interactive card. It happens differently in different DVDs
How to fix this? Bug issue?

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

with wiimc, preferably use DVD-R.

other formats DVD-RW, DVD + RW are not supported by all players, anyway, using DVDs you will wear out your lens faster(take your pick).

 

[Pro70Crazy]

Hello,

with wiimc, preferably use DVD-R.

other formats DVD-RW, DVD + RW are not supported by all players, anyway, using DVDs you will wear out your lens faster(take your pick).

Yes how about to deal some freezing in WiiMC

 

[MikaDubbz]

WiiMC's DVD playback was never perfect to begin with. A cool feature to unlock for sure, but even with the most pristine of DVDs I remember stutters and freezes during playback. Sometimes everything worked without issue, but that definitely wasn't typical.

 

[Pro70Crazy]

WiiMC's DVD playback was never perfect to begin with. A cool feature to unlock for sure, but even with the most pristine of DVDs I remember stutters and freezes during playback. Sometimes everything worked without issue, but that definitely wasn't typical.

Yes, it even freezes at the same time as the previous attempts.

 

[KleinesSinchen]

WiiMC's DVD playback was never perfect to begin with. A cool feature to unlock for sure, but even with the most pristine of DVDs I remember stutters and freezes during playback. Sometimes everything worked without issue, but that definitely wasn't typical.

Really? I didn't use it a lot (not wanting to wear down the Wii drive when there are a lot of other methods for playing DVDs), but I never encountered any error if a movie started – Some of the more complex menus made starting the movie problematic.
Even a mini DVD-R DL played fine; that was my "hardcore" test – forcing the drive to read burned dual layer which have lower contrast than single layer.

Guess I got lucky.

 

[Nintendofan69]

I'm having this problem too but worse my wii is freezing and I can't eject after putting a dvd

 

[jeannotte]

I'm having this problem too but worse my wii is freezing and I can't eject after putting a dvd

Hello,

Is your DVD compatible with your Wii?

What year was your Wii released?

The first Wiis released in 2006 play DVDs.

 

[KleinesSinchen]

The Wii drives are old and far from good compared to proper full-sized optical drives used in desktop PCs. One of my Wii drives died in the middle of playing an original game disc.

As much as I like the Wii as emulation machine (and for playing Wii games of course), it doesn't perform very good as DVD player – even if it does work. Normally I avoid recommending alternatives instead of helping out with the actual question; but in cases were the initial idea isn't feasible (at least to my knowledge) an exception might be more helpful:

A) Flea markets and used electronic stores are full of standalone DVD players. People throw them out 'cause you know… outdated junk… streaming is the new thing and so on. You can get them for free at times.
Such a player is the easier solution. You might even find one with HDMI compatible to brand new TVs out of the box.

B) WiiMC SS delivers an excellent performance on MPEG-2 encoded videos like those on DVD. You can dump your videos to mkv files on a desktop PC with proper drive, preferably one without riplock. The resulting files should run flawlessly from a USB drive on the Wii. I watched whole TV series that way.

Good luck and have fun!

 

[water_kooler]

Has anyone tried streaming IPTV on WiiMC-SS
Its not working for me