Watching DIVX movies on your Wii with ffmpeg and merb

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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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Welcome To My Blog: Reboot

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Hello all.

Sometime late last year I thought I’d start this blog, and had grand plans for all sorts of complex, time-involving entries, that - of course - I haven’t got around to making because they’re too complex and time-involving.

So I will scale back my requirements, and begin making more generalised postings on whatever I’m doing at the moment that I feel is worth sharing with you guys.

See you soon. I mean it this time.

Cheers,
Neil.


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