NintendoRevo Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 Turn your Wii into a Media Center Wii Media Center X is a free multimedia server developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to stream certain types of pictures, music, videos and files from your computer (where the server running) to your Nintendo Wii. It runs on most major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Features Videos - Wii Media Center X lets you stream and watch videos in the Flash video format (FLV) on your Wii. You can download flash videos from many places on the internet or create your own using Wii Video 9. Music - Wii Media Center X lets you playback MP3s on your Wii without the need of an SD card. Pictures - Red Kawa Media Center lets you view pictures on your Wii without the need of an SD card. Files - Wii Media Center X lets you browse your files located on your server. http://www.redkawa.com/mediacenters/wiimediacenterx/ Wii/iTunes Flash Player http://www.dottunes.net/wii.html wii flash games http://www.wiicade.com
AshMat Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 This sounds quite cool, i'll try it out when i'm done watching Simpsons.
Daft Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 This sounds quite cool, i'll try it out when i'm done watching Simpsons. Yea same! What sort of harware do you need? (e.g. wireless stuff)
HazyUK Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 Thanks for the link, I'm going to try it out now.
Tellyn Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 That sounds interesting, I shall give it a go tomorrow.
Rummy Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 Sound interesting, but the site isn't very clear on how it all works? I'm trying out that Wii Video 9 though to see how big a file will be after converted, and how it looks on the good old wii.
harribo Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 tried it music doesnt work on wii yet although it does seem pretty pointless running music, pictures etc I've got on my laptop on my Wii when theyre in the same room.
Ashley Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 Going to give it a try. Will come in useful to stream How I Met Your Mother DVD to the living room as the DVD player in there isn't multi region.
shade Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 its in beta as the moment, so don't expect too much.
HazyUK Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 I copied some photos over into the images folder, but it did not display them. The same goes for some mp3's. But it's only a beta, I guess they're still working on it. I hope they get it up and running as it could be a useful application. Especially if you don't own a 360.
AshMat Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 This is quite good. Things: Music Music functionality does not yet work, it will stream on my PC, and according tot he website, a PS3, but the Wii won't start them yet. Videos Videos work perfectly, this way you can watch Google Video vids without it crashing, and youtube videos full screen, nothing at the edge, proper full screen. You need to download the .flv files, i use this site: http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php Works a treat. All other I have not tried any others yet, i imagine Images work fine, but it mean that, if you don't have an SD card yet, you can view images and watch .flv videos (i don't think non-flv vids work, i mgiht try it. To get to the player with your wii, enter this into your address bar (on the Wii) http://[your ip address]:[port] When you open the Red Kawa media centre App on your pc, it's in the top middle. Finallys, (from the site); Put files int he following directories: My Videos Place FLV videos in your "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Media Center\software\Video\videos" directory. My Music (Not yet Functioning) Place MP3's in your "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Media Center\software\Music\music" directory. My Pictures Place Pictures in your "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Media Center\software\Pictures\images" directory. Hope this helps
NintendoRevo Posted December 28, 2006 Author Posted December 28, 2006 FLVs, some MP3s and most of the images were playing for me. Yeah it sounds pointless if the PC and Wii are in the same room but it doesn't if you connect them via WiFi when they are, lets say, PC in the room and Wii in living room at the big TV:). Maybe after beta it supports various video formats who knows:)
Ashley Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 Set it up. It told me music doesn't currently work. Trying a video and its, shall we say, streaming quality. Plus it doesn't fit the whole page, you still get that little bar at the bottom. And its currently frozen.
Daft Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 I hope the next version plays move video types!
Tellyn Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 Well I installed it, tried to stick some Zelda tunes into it but how the hell do I put it in the C:// thingy? It's uninstalled now though, I'll wait for the inevitable Media Channel on the Wii Menu.
Fierce_LiNk Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 I haven't tried this, but its good to know that people are planning things like these.
Tellyn Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 Tunes don't play yet Telly. Ya I realised when the Sony-favouring message lit up my screen.
Guest Stefkov Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 I'm surpised how well and quick it works. I just copied and pasted a load of random pictures into the folder specified. Went on the Wii. Typed the address. Clicked images, and there they were. Wow now if tunes worked then this would be really cool.
AshMat Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 I've noticed people, (including myself) are forgetting about DOT.TUNES for MP3s, im about to try it out and see how good it is. EDIT: Can't figure it out at all.. don't bother with DOT.TUNES
Flaight Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 It does work and work well enough for me, but personally I have no use for it since my super PC is sitting 5 feet away from Wii. Still, nice project and good work by the coder.
Emasher Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 is it like a 3rd party channel or something the explanation in the first post dosent really say what it is.
Flaight Posted December 30, 2006 Posted December 30, 2006 It's used via Wii's opera browser. You put a few photos, music and video files on your PC and then load them up in Wii via opera browser. No need for mem sticks to do the transfers as the WiFi network does the transmission. You always keep the files on the PC. Whatever is loaded into Wii is temporary.
Rummy Posted December 31, 2006 Posted December 31, 2006 I am wondering if this runs through the internet, or through the LAN? Not that it matters either way, and probably would work through the internet, but if it's running through the internet and people have download limits and such, isn't that gonna eat at them quite a bit? Does it also mean that say if I knew your IP address and the port you were using that I could just have a browse of your files in the folder?
Bogbas Posted December 31, 2006 Posted December 31, 2006 I am wondering if this runs through the internet, or through the LAN? Not that it matters either way, and probably would work through the internet, but if it's running through the internet and people have download limits and such, isn't that gonna eat at them quite a bit?Does it also mean that say if I knew your IP address and the port you were using that I could just have a browse of your files in the folder? That depends. If the ip address for the pc is 192.168.x.x it won't go through the internet. Just LAN. And it doesn't matter if you knew someone's ip that starts with those numbers. They're reserved for home LANs. But if someone is not using nat on the router (that the pc and wii is connected on) and has an ISP that allows more than one public IP/connection it can go through the internet and be usable to anyone. Unless the software itself limits this somehow. Another way to do this would be installing a http server application to the pc and hosting a dedicated website that had the pictures, music, videos etc. If the opera on wii can play mp3's you'd get them working this way.
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