WiiMC - a new reason to rejoice in Wii Homebrew

[RTSDaddy2]

Man oh man...if the Wii had HD quality....and people found out about THIS piece of homebrew....as soon as the bugs were out of it, they could not keep the Wiis on the shelf.  Between this and Netflix, Nintendo would have something.

Just decided to go see what was new, and saw this new player designed in part by Tantric.  Y'all, though buggy, this thing is VERY cool.  Will play just abuot any form of video or audio media, via SD card, DVD (provided ISO 202 is installed), or streaming media.  Tried a movie and music from SD card, not a hitch - movie looked great, music sounded awesome. 

DVD playback right now is pretty good - can get a bit draggy in search mode, but otherwise pretty good. The new Star Trek movie played well!

Streaming video is still in development apparently, but I nearly freaked out - they have a streaming video version of The Movie Channel available, and before I knew it I was watching "Shutter Island."  Due to the Wii's limitaions, it was a bit pixelated, but with composite cable it was viewable.  Lag time was a bit rough on it and other channels, but remember, this thing is brand new....they may be able to improve streaming as they go.

Tantric and crew, man you're outdoing yourselves on this....           

You all into Wii homebrew try it out if you haven't - for an early release it's pretty damned impressive.

[SNAAKE]

welcome to like 5 years ago..we had that going on with OG xbox

I am still gonna check it out though lol.

[versapak]

welcome to like 5 years ago..we had that going on with OG xbox

I still gonna check it out though lol.

Yeah, I don't really see that as anything to sell a Wii. There are sooooooo many things that do this now that it is pretty sad that the Wii doesn't just have the ability by default.

[RTSDaddy2]

Wow - sorry I broght it up.    

No, you know what, I'm not.  Sorry us Wii'ers are SO far behind the times, but I'll keep enjoying the media player.  At least someone finally did something about it instead of just complaining about it!   

And before you fellows get your boxers in a bunch, this post is done in jest- note the happy faces aound it.

[hypernova]

Sorry us Wii'ers are SO far behind the times, but I'll keep enjoying the media player.

Hey, speak for yourself! 

I don't bother with MC stuff for the Wii.  My laptop has an HDMI out, so a Wii MC app is pointless.  I also have my 360 linked up to the laptop wirelessly, but I don't even use that because of the HDMI option.

Plus, the app would have to be darn near flawless in order to replace anyone's numerous (and better) options for video playback, and I just don't think any Wii video app will ever be able to justifiably replace anything already available.

[RTSDaddy2]

Ok, ok, touche!   

You know I'm king of Wii nerdiness!     Just thought I'd found something useful and thought I'd share.

Your laptop has HDMI out?  DAMN! I KNEW I bought that Toshiba Satellite too early! (5 years ago)!