MFE-Wii port using wii-linux

[hoshinokirby]

when i first start it up the video plays fine, but after a minute or so it freezes. I can still go back to the menu but everything gets really slow and it will not play any more videos or mp3s.
edit: last time I started it up it played a little over 10 minutes before freezing

[DimensionT]

Here are my results so far:

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VIDEO-
File size : 59.5 MiB
PlayTime : 6mn 17s
Bit rate : 1323 Kbps
StreamSize : 24.0 MiB
Codec : XviD
Codec/Family : MPEG-4V
Codec profile : Simple Profile/Level 3
Bit rate : 599 Kbps
Width : 352 pixels
Height : 288 pixels
Frame rate : 30.000 fps

AUDIO-
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
Codec profile : Joint stereo
PlayTime : 6mn 17s
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 8.63 MiB
Writing library : LAME3.97 (beta)

RESULTS-
Played perfectly, though I didn't watch the whole thing.

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VIDEO-
File size : 6.87 MiB
PlayTime : 25s 600ms
Bit rate : 2251 Kbps
Codec : XviD
Codec/Family : MPEG-4V
Codec profile : Streaming Video Profile/Level 1
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240 pixels
Frame rate : 30.000 fps

AUDIO-
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
Codec profile : Joint stereo
PlayTime : 25s 545ms
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 112 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 349 KiB

RESULTS-
Didn't play. It would attempt to load for a split second before returning to the menu.

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VIDEO-
File size : 800 KiB
PlayTime : 23s 868ms
Bit rate : 275 Kbps
Codec : XviD
Codec/Family : MPEG-4V
Codec profile : Streaming Video Profile/Level 1
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240 pixels
Frame rate : 30.000 fps

AUDIO-
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
PlayTime : 23s 868ms
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 96.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 280 KiB

RESULTS-
Played 100% prefect the whole way through

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VIDEO-
File size : 104 MiB
PlayTime : 3mn 30s
Bit rate : 4151 Kbps
Codec : DivX 5 HD 1080i
Codec/Family : MPEG-4V
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Frame rate : 30.000 fps

AUDIO-
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
PlayTime : 3mn 30s
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 3.22 MiB
Writing library : LAMELAME_MAJOR_VERSI

RESULTS-
Played pretty choppy. Usually only on the parts with alot of stuff going on.

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VIDEO-
File size : 22.3 MiB
PlayTime : 1mn 12s
Bit rate : 2574 Kbps
Codec : DivX 5 HD 1080i
Codec/Family : MPEG-4V
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Frame rate : 30.000 fps

AUDIO-
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
PlayTime : 1mn 12s
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 96.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 854 KiB

RESULTS-
Played pretty well considering I encoded it with the Divx HD 1080i profile.

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CONCLUSION-
My SD card is on the low end of the spectrum, as it was pretty cheap... But it's still a great deal better then the media player that comes in the Wii. If you're having issues playing full length movies, then re-encode it at a lower resolution/bitrate using Xvid. Chopping the video into 100MB or so chunks would be a good idea as well. If you don't care about stereo, encode the audio to mono at around 96Kb/s (this is the lowest setting without being too noticable).

Also, I think it has issues playing videos with 48.000HZ audio. This is the only reason I can think of for video two not playing.

[watupgroupie]

This is a pretty cool release. We could have some interesting designs for a media player for wii. If you really want to play videos on your wii right now though just use pimpstreamer and use the internet browser and open up the webpage version of pimpstreamer. Works fine for me.

[Athrador]

As always (with homebrew) there're some problem with PAL Wii:

on 50hz works fine but the image is not in the original size, and on 60hz there's the red and black problem

Help?

[makyura]

This is really good. i've tried a lot of different media and it works great: full speed and good audio for flv, mov, mp4, mp3 and avi. i've got a PAL Wii.

just a few thing: with old wmv file no problem, for the wmv encoded with the actual codec there's only audio; big .mkv files(or the h264) crashes and return to the menu after some time.
realmedia cannot be played (why there's no one that make a realmedia player)

[kurtless]

So just use the Twilight hack then with all the instructions? Sounds simple enough. I got the snes emulator running, hope this will work.

[skedone]

realmedia problem is due to license needed all i want to know has this project died it seems to have gone quite

[kwijiboWII]

This works great for me on two PAL wii's. Been watching different vids for a week. Never crashes except when the video finishes it will sometimes hang and the wii will need a restart.

I have a widescreen TV, is there anyway to set the aspect ratio as it seems to be in non-widescreen format by default?

Is there still any work being done on this? It is a great project and it is all we have until Wii Miidia comes out? Would love to see Wiimote support for this also

Great work, Thanks a lot!!

[KristenBaldousor]

Sweet, finally, i won't have to hook up my laptop to my tv to see my hent..... errr, I mean, adult videos and movies, just place it on the sd card and play it on Wii

many thanks!!!!!