Wii and media to TV

Strzelecki · 19-01-2007, 01:12

Anyone who has a Wii should check out http://www.orb.com/. Its a way of streaming content to your tv via your Wii or any other internet enabled device. Basically you install their program, which servers as a streaming server via their service. You then power up your Wii and start the Opera browser you already downloaded and go to http://mycast.orb.com and login. You can then watch/listen/see any content you have assigned on the PC running the Orb software. Windows only at the moment I'm afraid and I'm a bit dubious about what they could actually do in terms of seeing what you are streaming, they are US based after all.
Give it a go. The quality of streams of course depends on your internet bandwidth.

skyblueheroes · 19-01-2007, 06:55

Has anyone tried this ? This is an area I'm quite interested in especially to see if Nintendo do something official for this.

Gareth · 19-01-2007, 10:18

Yeah, I tried it briefly... it works well. You can tell it to search your entire drives, or just certain folders, and it'll pick up all media files - including images as well as just music- and shows it on your customisable homepage.

It's just a shame that all your traffic is going out over t'internet, instead of just being able to serve the files over your LAN. Might try playing around with this when I've got some spare time, to see if I can find a way of doing this all locally.

skyblueheroes · 19-01-2007, 15:32

Just been reading about this on the site. Looks very clever. Might try tonight.

gooner4life · 19-01-2007, 16:04

So what's to stop you from running the server locally and then pointing to a local address within your network? then you wouldnt have to stream across the net, can you play DivX movies and what not?

skyblueheroes · 19-01-2007, 17:26

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Originally Posted by gooner4life

So what's to stop you from running the server locally and then pointing to a local address within your network? then you wouldnt have to stream across the net, can you play DivX movies and what not?

Explain further please for us noobs

Strzelecki · 19-01-2007, 20:01

Yeah that's what I was thinking.
Install a web server and create a web page with an embedded media player of some sort. You could run it on a linux or windows system. May make it into a project of mine. Would just have to work out the best reolution to build the page for.

Edit: just found this info: http://wiinintendo.net/2006/11/30/we...rowser-on-wii/

Gareth · 20-01-2007, 00:52

Yeah, I was thinking there was something that Ninty had done in one of the early updates to stop browsing to local addresses, but I just remembered that it was nothing at all to do with that... it was before Opera was released and you could change the DNS of the Shop Channel to point to Google or goatse.cx or whatever.

Sorry, it's been a long week.

As for DivX, it's not compatible... you have to re-encode to FLV instead. Hopefully Ninty will change this at some stage.

Strzelecki · 20-01-2007, 02:10

Been playing with WiiCR tonight. Still very buggy but has potential. http://wiicr.org/wiki/index.php/WiiCR

skyblueheroes · 20-01-2007, 10:56

Orb works a treat. Tried it this morning. Superb.

Kellargh · 23-01-2007, 13:28

I've heard apparently that if you put a divx file onto your SD card it'll play???

skyblueheroes · 23-01-2007, 15:49

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Originally Posted by Kellargh

I've heard apparently that if you put a divx file onto your SD card it'll play???

Not heard that one - does it work ?

SOSAGES · 24-01-2007, 13:36

shame no one will want to go through the hassle of copying files to a sd card.

will be a while before anything pretty is out to stream moves over ur lan.