Watching DIVX movies on your Wii with ffmpeg and merb
Programming No Comments »Ok. Now, I have a confession to make. That title was cunningly designed to pull you into this post, and as cunning as I may be; I’m honest — I’ll say upfront that I haven’t got this cracked yet.
Let’s take a step back: the other night I had a random thought: you can play movies in Flash, right? And Opera, the Wii web browser, features flash! Hmmm …
My pipe dream here was something akin to the Apple TV — or at least its streaming capabilities. And cheaper. By which I mean free! I have various DIVX (and a few other formats) movies lying around, and I’d like to be able to watch them on my TV in the living room. I was hence wondering whether the Wii could stream the videos across my wireless network, from my NAS box.
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