http://www.windracer.net/blog/2009/08/cookin-up-some-wii-homebrew/ World Readable: a personal blog about anything that comes to mind for anybody who cares to read it. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.windracer.net/blog/2009/08/cookin-up-some-wii-homebrew/comment-page-1/#comment-167 windracer Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:47:24 +0000 http://www.windracer.net/blog/?p=797#comment-167 The latest 4.2U menu update wiped out my homebrew install over the weekend. Luckily, there's a <a href="http://bannerbomb.qoid.us/index.new.php" rel="nofollow">new version</a> of bannerbomb that put it all back just as quickly. The latest 4.2U menu update wiped out my homebrew install over the weekend. Luckily, there’s a new version of bannerbomb that put it all back just as quickly.

]]> http://www.windracer.net/blog/2009/08/cookin-up-some-wii-homebrew/comment-page-1/#comment-144 windracer Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:38:17 +0000 http://www.windracer.net/blog/?p=797#comment-144 So I dumped the different MPlayer apps I had been experimenting with and went with <a href="http://wiibrew.org/wiki/MPlayer_CE" rel="nofollow">MPlayer CE</a>. I was able to point it to the samba share of my NAS and actually browse the hierarchy of folders and select a video to play, just like using pyTivo on my TiVos. The Wii just doesn't have the horsepower to transcode some video formats without choppiness, but just to see it working was pretty amazing. So I dumped the different MPlayer apps I had been experimenting with and went with MPlayer CE. I was able to point it to the samba share of my NAS and actually browse the hierarchy of folders and select a video to play, just like using pyTivo on my TiVos. The Wii just doesn’t have the horsepower to transcode some video formats without choppiness, but just to see it working was pretty amazing.

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