MPlayerWii - Native MPlayer port for the Wii

I just released MPlayerWii which is a native port of the MPlayer media player for the wii.

http://ronwarez.com/mplayerwii

formats tested
Containers: AVI, WMV, MKV, MP3, FLV (Flash Video), MP4, M4V, QuickTime
Video codecs: Xvid, DivX, Windows Media, MPEG 1/2, H264
Audio codecs: MPEG 1/2/3, Windows Media, AAC

Update 10/03/08:

v0.07
-fixed screen color depth/banding issues (uses code from dhewg's mplayer port)
-added progress bar osd display during seek/volume on videos

v0.06:
-huge speedup on USB devices (thanks to rodries and Hermes)
-added classic controller support to position and scale the video display

v0.05:
-added file folders support
-added fix for PAL widescreen users (set the correct setting in mplayerwii.conf)
-much faster USB reading speed (huge thanks to rodries)

v0.04:
-mount/unmount the SD card and/or USB drive so you can swap them out without reloading MPlayerWii (thanks to rodries)
-added USB read-ahead cache (thanks to rodries)
-added preliminary samba network share support (thanks to scip)
-fixed startup crash when a usblan or usb keyboard is attached
-added network streaming cache
-added video scaling with the nunchuk (use joystick to move, Z button to stretch and C to reset)
-added configuration file (put in the SD root folder)
-new ascii logo by sensah

v0.03:
-happy french bastille day!
-added USB storage support (USB reading is dead slow unfortunately, only good for MP3 files)
-added volume controls (Up/Down buttons on the wiimote)
-added wiimote buttons repeat during playback
-added preliminary test network streaming (shoutcast and mms)
-longer filename display in the file selection screen
-fix for widescreen aspect ratio (uses the Wii display settings)
-more audio playback fixes

v0.02:
-added svenp's libfat patches (better read speed on SD cards)
-added pause button (A button on the wiimote)
-disabled MPlayer's error/status text during video playback
-file list now displays 20 files instead of 10
-improved audio playback code

installation
- unzip the package into the "apps" folder on your SD card.
- place video and audio files on the root folder of your SD card.
- launch MPlayerWii through the Homebrew Channel.

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yay!
video playback:)

thanks:)

Wait, uncompressed AVI or divx/xvid?

divx/xvid AVI files will play just fine. I haven't really tried H264 playback yet but that *should* work as well.

WMV files have been reported to play too.

nice.
hope to see CD/DVD support soon.

is there AC3 support?

well i hope to see support for the codecs in CCCP, I will be very happy.

Good Luck!

i just played a high quality 700MB avi with this and it played without a single flaw from start to finish. I would just like to say this is a blessing to the end user and thank you for such an amazing application (I am very impressed!)

the good:
amazing quality and supports many formats that all play with ease couldnt ask for a smoother media solution :)

The things that could make this better:
naturally a GUI that goes without say (yet i say it doh...lol) and i was thinking what if you could hook up a USB based external HDD to play your media from! imagine that would fill the void/lack of media on the wii!

(they sell cheap at bestbuy 90$ for a 300 GB western digital external hard drive i use one for my 360's media actually)

all in all i would be happy if this were the only release! this application is just an amazing contribution to a ever growing wii homebrew scene gr8 work i will be watching this close as it matures! :)

Great work. Getting a direct port of MPlayer is just one step towards getting XBMC on Wii one day. I hope you continue this project :)

I'm going to be one of those annoying people who asks for new features while the product is still young -

CIFS support would be extremely useful!

Man, thanks for the contribution to the scene! I'd like to say that subtitle fucntion is the most desired feature I'd like to see in the next realse. I just can't wait for it!

Also are you considering to include the realmedia support?

Just add subtitles
and woaou

how does it handle HD video?

lets say it is 1080 or 720, then what happens, does it downscale?

Cool!

Does anyone know of a homebrew app which will allow me to stream media (mainly video) from my PC to my Wii, similar to how I can on my 360 over my wireless network?

Thanks!

very cool tonight i test it.. now usb storange or DVD drive

This is great! Add wifi support and I will love you forever.

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Also are you considering to include the realmedia support?

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This is very doubtful it'll ever happen. Real media support is done in Mplayer (and XBMC) by directly calling the Real video DLLs. And since the Wii is PowerPC based, this is not going to happen for a very long time.

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Originally Posted by whYeNQue

how does it handle HD video?

lets say it is 1080 or 720, then what happens, does it downscale?

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I haven't tried HD video yet. The video should be downscaled but I don't think the current version will be optimized enough to smoothly play 720p or 1080p.

a great start...video a little jerky but plays ok on my pal wii. this is as others have said a start to replace my xbmc.

Great so far :)

p.s how do you pause?

the next thing should be subtitle support imo..

what's a video player without subtitle support?

version 2 a little better but still a bit jerky...also sound now seems to bit a little lower than before almost as if its been muted a little. need to turn up volume more on TV........picture does not quite stretch fully across my wide screen tv about 2Cms black bar on either side.

i'm getting the "Exception (DSI) occurred" error :(

everything else works fine...just mplayer doesn't

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Originally Posted by liquitt

i'm getting the "Exception (DSI) occurred" error :(

everything else works fine...just mplayer doesn't

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Any particular type of file you're getting this error or all of them?

right when i'm trying to start the program

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Originally Posted by liquitt

right when i'm trying to start the program

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When you get that exception screen, there's a stack dump displayed on the screen. It looks like 2 lines of "80006df8 --> 8000446c --> 8001a4a4".

Can you copy those lines here so I can see where it crashes?

i made a photo which is, in my opinion very good to read

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/5...2008hk1.th.jpg

Thanks for the pic. Do you have any USB device attached to the Wii? Can you try removing them?

Even though USB support isn't in MPlayerWii yet, it scans for USB devices at startup and it seems to crash in there.

Great app, thank you so much.

This is a stupid post because for one thing I'm a lurk most of the time and for another I haven't tried this yet but I HAVE to say kudos man. Keep working on it and thanks for contributing to the homebrew scene.

that did the trick!!! i had a usb keyboard attached to it

thanks man!

Great work mate! Works well. Thanks for the hard work!

This might be a very stupid question but I have a widescreen (16:9) TV and the aspect ratio is all out of wack. Is there any way to correct this?

Great Player! it played lost so smoothly!
please improve the design later! use your time to include subtitles!
thx!!!!

I'd like to start off by thanking you for bringing this to the Wii. It's exactly what I needed and is the perfect compliment to my "slim-PS2-as-a-DVD-player" setup.

Despite the fact that this is only build 0.02, this is working incredibly well and I've had no crashes or anything like that.

Do have a few minor issues though:

.AVI files seem to have issues playing. Either I experience some severe slowdown or the image has about 60% of the screen as random squares of color, and the part that is actually watchable only seems to update for the first minute. The slowdown occurs with AVI files that I recorded using FRAPPS. AVI files that get the pixel blocks were made from FLVs using ZAMZAR to convert them. I don't really have any other AVI files to test out how they play.

.FLV either plays perfectly, or it plays with the image twisted around the screen. It looks like every line starting from the top is offset 1 square to the left of the line above it.(dunno how many pixels this "square" would equate to, but it's fairly uniform the whole way down) whatever part of the line goes offscreen ends up wrapping around to the right side of the screen, so you end up with what looks like three diagonal stripes of video playing that run from top right to bottom left.
This occurs most commonly with FLV files that have had subtitles applied to them. However even though the files end up distorted, the subtitles still show up, though they end up distorted the same way.
Even though this is most common with subtitled FLVs, this isn't true for ALL subtitled FLVs. So it may actually be unrelated to that.

I hope that will help with I'll check what the particular file properties are if someone tells me what to look for and how.


Now for my "most wanted features list"

1) File organization - nothing huge, I just don't like having to put all the videos on the root of my SD card. I'd like to be able to put my music files and video files in separate folders, maybe create folders to allow me to segregate up videos that belong to the same series.
It'd also be nice if you allowed support for cameras so that you could access the folders that cameras store videos in and watch them directly.

2) Subtitle Support: the other's who have posted this are right, subtitles would be nice for this type of thing

3) Internal Volume Control: sure, I can use the TV remote to do this, but I've already got the Wii remote in my hands, just attach volume up and volume down to the - and + buttons. I realize it's not as simple to do as just that, but it'd really be nice. In order to hear any of the videos I run, I have to turn my TV volume way up, and then when I get back to the Wii main menu, it's practically ear splitting.

4) Play videos in series: right now, if you reach the end of the video, it either plays it back over again, or boots you out of the video back to the selection screen. Any chance of having videos in the same folder being counted as a series so it'll play through everything in the folder before starting back at the beginning?
Playlists could also be made easy by providing support for the player to access files via shortcuts. just dump all your videos and music into one folder and then make separate folders with just teh shortcuts to those files in them to create your playlists.

That's all I can think of to improve that. I mean, sure, it'd be nice to update the music player with a little visual support, and maybe have a graphics interface and timer for the player that pops up when you press the 1 or 2 buttons, but that's all gravy.

Hopefully this all didn't come across as being greedy and demanding. I'm just trying to offer some feedback and encouragement on this project. I really like what it's already done, and I really like where it's headed. If I can get those issues I mentioned addressed, it'll pretty much clinch this as THE must have homebrew application for the Wii, for me at least.


EDIT: Oh, and just in case it matters, I'm running this on a standard CRT monitor in NTSC region.

I have over scan problem since my TV is not a LCD so my subtitle for my animes are off the screen is there gonna be an option in the future which solve this problem ?

Fantastic media player :thumbup: ! ...

I already tested v0.02 and I got these bugs:

When you play an MPEG-2 file, many "blocks" appears on the screen and the playback is too fast :( ...

Here's an screenshot of the problem:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3003/blockyye6.jpg

this is AMAZING. great work coder!!!!
divx, h.264 look incredible and smooth.
plus, this blows my mind more than anything, .flac files play great!!!!
flac support on the wii !!! this is insane. show me a donation button, i will gladly donate cuz this sh*t rules.

Didn't tried, but subtitles should work, just rename them to the same name of the video:
* mymovie.avi
* mymovie.srt

Hey man, haven't you ever thought of bringing the file browsing function to the app? It's just like a mess to put all the media files at the root of the SD card:(

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Originally Posted by scognito

Didn't tried, but subtitles should work, just rename them to the same name of the video:
* mymovie.avi
* mymovie.srt

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Does not work for me.

Thank you very much for working on this fcorbier. I've been waiting for an MPlayer based app for Wii ever since i bought it, so this is really, really good news.

Great job so far. :)