WiiMC

WiiMC (Wii Media Centre) is is a free and open source media player for the Wii home video game console. WiiMC is the successor to one of the forks of MPlayer for the Wii called MPlayer CE, and as such uses Mplayer to play media files. The GUI to WiiMC is powered by libwiigui which is a GPL licensed GUI library for creating Wii homebrew. WiiMC is capable of playing DVD videos and media files located on FTP servers, load discs, USB flash drives, and SD Cards. Playing DVDs is also possible. WiiMC has been reviewed by video game critic Charles Herold
Capabilities
Many Audio and Video codecs are supported.
* Video playback is supported for: 3gp, asf, avi, bik, divx, dpg, dv, dvr-ms, evo, f4v, flc, fli, flv, iso, m1v, m2t, m2ts, m2v, m4v, mkv, mov, mp4, mp4v, mpe, mpeg, mpg, mqv, nsv, nuv, ogm, qt, rmvb, swf, trp, ts, vdr, vfw, viv, vob, vro, wmv, and y4m.
**DVD playback is possible with DVD menu support, however newer Wiis have incompatible drives.
*Audio playback is supported for: aac, ac3, aif, aiff, amr, ape, apl, asf, flac, m4a, m4b, m4p, mka, mp2, mp3, mpc, ogg, ra, ram, rm, shn, wav, wma, and wv. Playlist formats: asx, m3u, pls, plx, ram, and smil are supported as well.
*Picture viewing is supported for: bmp, jpeg, jpg, png, and gif
WiiMC allows media to be read locally from the device itself through FAT32/NTFS from SD and USB 2.0
or via local Network playback via SMB, HTTP, and FTP. On-line media support, including SHOUTcast, YouTube, and Navi-X is also supported.
Multi-language support includes menus in the following languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish.
Limitations
The Wii hardware provides limitations as to the media playback capabilities of WiiMC. The console's drive is equipped with a DVD (650 nm wavelength) laser diode only, and is not capable of Audio CD playback (which uses a 780 nm laser diode) . Video playback is limited by the Wii's hardware to 480p or 576i. Multichannel sound (5.1) is not possible as the Wii hardware has only two analogue audio output channels (2.0)
Licensing
WiiMC software is licensed under the by its developers. WiiMC is homebrew software, as such this software has not been authorized by Nintendo and circumvents the Wii's copy protection and code signing measures.

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