Using WII as media center?

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Have you guys tried this... How does it perform as a media center?

Thanks.
 
Patty said:
Have you guys tried this... How does it perform as a media center?

Thanks.
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crappy!
the native wii software doesnt support anything (DVD, divx) you need to scout around for home bru software that can do the job and then its not very good, and with the wii updates most of the stuff doesnt work anymore.
I gave up on it, and went back to my xbox for my media centre needs, just use the wii for family gameing
 
I'm running Homebrew with MPlayer CE.

It does a decent job of playing movies from my SMB (windows) shares.

I don't use it as a DVD player, as the drive won't handle playing DVDs as well (not designed for constant reading), and I've got a cheap media player that does a perfectly good job at thtat.
 
Can I jump in here?... It Works PERFECTLY as a Media Centre if you have the correct homebrew installed!.
 
Patty said:
Have you guys tried this... How does it perform as a media center?

Thanks.
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Hi Patty,i gave the Wii media center idea a good long try albeit 2 years ago and i found its performance with DVD's very sluggish.
Codec support was poor and video stuttered as if being streamed on a busy wireless router.

Isie is right about poor codec support such as divx etc, and the reality is that the Wii is just seriously underpowered with the current coding of homebrew app's for video.

If Nintendo themselves had coded proper media support into the Wii i guess it would have been a different story.....

If anybody else has used newer Wii homebrew apps to play video and found it as smooth without lag or stutter ,please speak up and tell us the application being used.
 
I tried it for a bit... Homebrew wasn't too hard but I found the rest a mission. It was very sluggish and often could not read the drive with my movies on. It did work though but my conclusion was that it was not designed for being a media center. I'd rather use it for its intended purpose and play games on it.
 
The_Librarian said:
It will be the perfect media center - no wires or the such for the remotes...
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xbox360 and ps3 works with out any wires for the remotes so not realy a selling point (if it worked well in the first place on the wii)
I do however use the Wiimote with my nokia n8 as a remote that little phone works much better as a media player then the wii
 
Ja, I've also tried - but gave up when it could not read DVD's. Stopped right there.

Maybe the new Wii will have support for reading DVD's?
 
I've used Homebrew and Media Player CE, it worked alright but keep in mind it's only a little 700Mhz processor in there and it struggles on some video even on SD.

Rather go buy yourself a cheap media player like a Apacer AL350 or something, used one for years, works great even today.
 
One year on it's still soldiering on as our media player. It reads directly from my file shares, so it's quite convenient. SD content only though ;)

The few WiFi capable media players I've seen are pretty expensive, although obviously more capable. For the moment it'll stay.
 
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