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WiiMC is another media playing software in Nintendo Wii. WiiMC is easy to control as it has graphical interface. However , don’t expect you can have 720p or higher as wii don’t have much power to do .

Features:

Attractive libwiigui-based interface, designed with the Wii in mind

Most essential difference from MPlayer CE and the like: completely GUI based, fiddling .conf files should never be necessary (except for on-line media)

Picture viewer

Music player

On-line media support

FAT32/NTFS from SD and USB 2.0 (FAT32 recommended)

Network playback via SMB, HTTP, and FTP

Multi-language support: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish

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source:http://www.wiibrew.org/

MPlayer is one of the best player for wii . This time you may enjoy the smooth play (via streaming).

Upstream sync. [MPlayer r31139 / FFmpeg r23040]

Improved performance and quality.

Added support for mono audio output.

Added Dolby Surround mixing on any 4/5.1 channels sources.

Added disc light VU meter.

Any synchronized Wiimote or connected GameCube controller can now be used.

Added support for USB keyboards.

Added hardware analog volume control.

Added blip.tv playlists.

Extracted DVD encryption keys are now cached on the local storage device.

Added support for AMR narrowband and wideband audio using opencore-amr.

Wiimote timeout now depends on the battery level.

Improved resume accuracy.

Improved video scaling.

New VI initialization.

Added support for the title element of some playlist formats.

Added support for international text encodings on file systems.

Cache and memory information have been moved to a new OSD level.

MPlayer’s messages are now available over USB Gecko.

Removed Nintendo Channel content.

Deprecated gx_zoom, hor_pos, vert_pos and horizontal_stretch.

Fixed crash when stopping while using libdvdnav.

Fixed crash when stopping while a scaled DVD subtitle is displayed.

Fixed crash related to text subtitles.

Many more bugs fixed.

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GeeXboX is a well-known programme for wii that plays media files in wii . Recently author farter added support for USB ethernet , USB , bluetooth to remote control Geexbox system.

This version has just edited some of the codes for mounting a hardware. If you still have problem on mounting a hardware , try to update to this version.

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So in BBC’s bid for console domination they have now teamed up with Nintendo who have announced that the Wii will be getting it’s very own dedicated BBC iPlayer channel. We can expect to be able to get this from 00:01 on Wednesday, November 18.

“We’re pleased that we’ve been able to work with Nintendo to evolve BBC iPlayer on the Wii, providing a faster, high quality and improved viewing experience,” said Erik Huggers, director of BBC Future Media & Technology.

To use the new and improved iPlayer, Wii users can download the Channel from the Wii Shop Channel’s menu screen. Launching it is as easy as clicking on the iPlayer icon and selecting what BBC show or radio program they want to watch.

Will we see more and more company’s streaming to our consoles in the future? Who knows…….

GeeXboX media player has been updated .Since there are not much update items there. you may enjoy after the installation 

20091016: 0.1alpha8. Feature improvement release.

• Update linux to 2.6.29.6;
• Update MPlayer and ffmpeg to 20091003 snapshots;
• Add fuseiso to handle more disc image formats;
• Fix OSD and aspect ratio in fbi image viewer;
• Add compatibility with new HBC title ID.

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NTFS file system libntfs was out for a while and Mplayer was firstly added the NTFS support (that is – you can plug in your flash using NTFS)

look at the changelog to see other changes:

FTP support added (thanks to hax)
NTFS support added for USB and SD (thanks to Shareese)
SMB speed improved
Hopefully finally eradicated the freezing bug
Fixed noise bug when loading another stream

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Unofficial version of Mplayer CE(s) were published recently and Mplayer CE v.0.71 is out. You may be surprised with lots of major updates:

Improved memory management, due to MPlayer hanging if out of memory. Also new feature added if you press 1 twice it will show mem 1 and mem 2 info.
Driver improved with autodetection error, on error the device is reinitied and read is retried, meaning it is very hard to hang the device.
EHCI Improvements have been made and now more usb devices are supported.
Now you don’t need the fat partition to be primary or active, patch in libfat and now libfat searches in all partitions to find a fat partition.
If test.dol here says usb device is 100% compatible and a device is not working in the last MPlayer revision. Then there isn’t a fat partition on the device, as a lot of people use ntfs instead.
Restore Points fixed, in previous release when you quit restore point was not saved, now quit or power off saves restore point and can resume properly. Delete your’e previous restore point incase it is corrupted, and check SD isn’t locked.
Improved smb connections, will always reconnect. (so you can remove shares from pc, and re-enable them, MPlayer will reconnect, so it’s a easier way to test smb if you have problems setting it up).
Improved stream initilization.
Fixed green lines at the top of screen whilst loading MPlayerCE.
Video files (which may be badly encoded) that may have unexpectedly froze at some point during playback in previous releases may playback without a possible glitch (such as that freeze/hang).
Change in MPlayer but it’s only for testing usb2, now you can load a external driver from sd. If you copy the driver to sd that driver will be used instead of the internal driver, more details (drivers) will be added to google code at a later date, thanx to hermes’s patch.
Finnally found/fixed the problem with network and usb2 conflicts, because the driver was using a bad device the name /dev/usb2 is good, but /dev/usb/ehc is bad Because it is used by the network driver 1 2 In previous releases there was a possible conflict.
Autoload implemented, so if the next file has a very similar name it will autoload it. Using a levenshtein distance of 2. So if you need to change only 1 or 2 letter/numbers then it is similar. Examples: film.part1.avi > film.part2.avi only 1 change is needed to get the same name. Also house.s01e09.avi > house.s01e10.avi works, (2 changes).
Removed the need to load fonts twice when you load a video file as the fonts have to be loaded to adjust to the film size, 2 fonts are always loaded. 1 for menu and 1 for subs. Now font for subs are loaded only if it’s needed, and the font face is cached, so fonts are loaded faster, making the video file load quicker.
Improved error reading streams/files (example if you remove share from your pc then MPlayer stops film when cache has finished, now while MPlayer has cache it will try to read again, so if you enable share again then MPlayer will continue playing without any problems, only stops video file if can’t read, or cache is empty. Now MPlayer is more robust on errors). If you unplug & plug usb MPlayer will stop film because usb is off and you need to remount. But if you get an error reading from usb or sd etc MPlayer will try to read again. (For example when a hd usb’s motor stops due to inactivity on pause then when you press start again MPlayer will use cache and can recieve an error because motor is not ready).
Many other small fixes and code cleanup.

 

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The SHOUTcast stream player for the Wii has received an update. There has been a large amount of changes made for this version.

Change Log

Version 0.3

- Whole new GUI thanks to TiMeBoMb
- Added a visualizer and black screen that acts as a burn reducer
- Loading streams from a playlist have been changed and bugs fixed
- Added a playlist delete option
- Hovering over stations or playlists now scroll giving you all the information
- Added Volume controls
- Added dynamic buffering (if your signal is weak)
- Fixed a crashing bug when parsing the ICY data
- Added more controls from the WiiMote (see above)
- Created a cache per genre so if the SHOUTcast DB does not respond you can play streams. If it does respond it will refresh your cache.
- Caches up to 1,000 stations per genre. No more waiting when you click next or previous
- Now using the new SDL port which improves the look and performance
- Text no longer uses a bitmap, it uses SDL-TTF
- Added informational pop-up’s
- Lots of bug fixes

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Okay, so you’re watching movies and listening to music on your Wii, but then your friends with 360′s and PS3 laugh at you because you can’t load files from an external hard drive. What are you to do?

Fight back by installing MPlayerCE, a media player that takes cues from many other Media Players for the Wii. Our newest version fixes some essential bugs, and adds support for your USB 2.0 devices!

v0.4

• USB 2.0 support (see docs for info)

• TTF font support (see docs for info)

• Fixed bug in radio streaming.

• DVD-Video bugs fixed (DVDs should play much more smoothly now)

• Fixes in Libdi to detect chipped Wii

• Codec fixes

• Updated to latest MPlayer revision

• Many small fixes

Also, I suggest you heed the text and browse through the readme (included in the download) for instructions on how to set-up and configure USB 2.0.

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Take the best of both worlds! Throw MPlayer, and GeeXBoX into a pot, blend them together, and your product is MPlayer CE! This is a fairly complete media player, that supports DVD Playback (with DVDX), video, audio, photos, and even radio!

We could post a cool list of features here, but there is so much to list that we would fill the front page! The ReadMe is very complete, and is a must-read. To see a list of all of the features, continue reading this article past the download link.

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