father ted
14th August, 2008, 02:11 PM
found this on a wii forum dont know if its of any use
Nintendo has been far too busy printing money and dreaming up strange new controllers to actually finish that DVD-on-Wii thing it has been promising for the last couple of years.
Happily, the homebrew community has stepped up and put together a Wii channel that will read a DVD disc and pipe it through the open source MPlayer media player.
It's not quite ready for prime time ? the audio can sometimes get out of sync, although this is more a 'feature' of MPlayer than the fault of the hack, we suspect. Worth checking out, though, and it might just save Nintendo the bother of building something that nobody has really been crying out for but would be nice to have for free.
Nintendo Wii: Homebrew Wii Channel Enables DVD Playback (http://kotaku.com/5036704/homebrew-w...s-dvd-playback)
Nintendo has been far too busy printing money and dreaming up strange new controllers to actually finish that DVD-on-Wii thing it has been promising for the last couple of years.
Happily, the homebrew community has stepped up and put together a Wii channel that will read a DVD disc and pipe it through the open source MPlayer media player.
It's not quite ready for prime time ? the audio can sometimes get out of sync, although this is more a 'feature' of MPlayer than the fault of the hack, we suspect. Worth checking out, though, and it might just save Nintendo the bother of building something that nobody has really been crying out for but would be nice to have for free.
Nintendo Wii: Homebrew Wii Channel Enables DVD Playback (http://kotaku.com/5036704/homebrew-w...s-dvd-playback)