For those who own a WII, a very viable application under "homebrew" is now available to provide media center capabilities (video,music,photos & online media). It provides full file and online media playlist browser support all selectable with the WIImote.
The media files may reside on the WII SD card, or attached USB drive or on network shares via SMB or FTP. Video includes subtitle support, Music includes playlist build and save, and Pictures include slideshow with zoom and music. Onlinemedia support includes http and mms streams, and YouTube, NaviX, and Shoutcast playlists. A PC based server application VLC-Shares is also available which uses VLC to transcode and send HD files as an SD http stream so these computationally intensive videos may also be played.
This does require the installation of "Homebrew" software on the WII, which allows applications other than those "officially" allowed by Nintendo to be installed. "Homebrew" exploits holes in the Nintendo code to provide hooks that these applications use to run correctly under the WII system code.
While all of this information may be found using homebrew and wiimc links, I have developed the "WIIMC Enhancement Pack", a set of enhancements to the released WIIMC application that significantly extends its capabilities.
These extensions come in the form of a patch that must be applied to the latest WIIMC source code and compiled in a PC development environment known as "devkitpro". The resulting wiimc.dol is then copied as a boot.dol to the apps/wiimc-plus folder on the WII sd card or usb device to make the application available on the WII.
I have opened this thread to be an alternate source for information on the "WIIMC Enhancement Pack", due to problems accessing and posting in the official WIIMC forum.
In order to provide the relevant information at the top of this thread I have reserved the first few posts for my future use.
The WIIMC Forum can be found here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/
The Official Compile Instructions are here: http://www.wiimc.org/compiling-instructions/
My Forum post of an "Expanded Compile Guide" is here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=489
My Forum post of a "Guide to WIIMC+ - A Structured Walkthru" is here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1025
My Forum post of the "WIIMC+ Enhancement Pack Version 8 for 1.1.5" is here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1279
The VLC-Shares post is here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=562
The Enhancement Pack will be distributed to those who PM jhb50 with their email address either here or on the WIIMC Forum.
The media files may reside on the WII SD card, or attached USB drive or on network shares via SMB or FTP. Video includes subtitle support, Music includes playlist build and save, and Pictures include slideshow with zoom and music. Onlinemedia support includes http and mms streams, and YouTube, NaviX, and Shoutcast playlists. A PC based server application VLC-Shares is also available which uses VLC to transcode and send HD files as an SD http stream so these computationally intensive videos may also be played.
This does require the installation of "Homebrew" software on the WII, which allows applications other than those "officially" allowed by Nintendo to be installed. "Homebrew" exploits holes in the Nintendo code to provide hooks that these applications use to run correctly under the WII system code.
While all of this information may be found using homebrew and wiimc links, I have developed the "WIIMC Enhancement Pack", a set of enhancements to the released WIIMC application that significantly extends its capabilities.
These extensions come in the form of a patch that must be applied to the latest WIIMC source code and compiled in a PC development environment known as "devkitpro". The resulting wiimc.dol is then copied as a boot.dol to the apps/wiimc-plus folder on the WII sd card or usb device to make the application available on the WII.
I have opened this thread to be an alternate source for information on the "WIIMC Enhancement Pack", due to problems accessing and posting in the official WIIMC forum.
In order to provide the relevant information at the top of this thread I have reserved the first few posts for my future use.
The WIIMC Forum can be found here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/
The Official Compile Instructions are here: http://www.wiimc.org/compiling-instructions/
My Forum post of an "Expanded Compile Guide" is here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=489
My Forum post of a "Guide to WIIMC+ - A Structured Walkthru" is here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1025
My Forum post of the "WIIMC+ Enhancement Pack Version 8 for 1.1.5" is here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1279
The VLC-Shares post is here: http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=562
The Enhancement Pack will be distributed to those who PM jhb50 with their email address either here or on the WIIMC Forum.
