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Anyone use their Wii to play AVI files?

  • 18-12-2006 5:13pm
    #1
    ADSLUSER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭


    I'm still waiting for my SD card to be delivered so haven't tested it yet but curious to know how well the Wii play videos - AVI and Mov I believe. Does it handle DivX etc?

    Let me know your experience?

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    The only format is plays atm is Motion JPEG.

    Used this and it worked fine. Have only tried with small files though, no high quality ones.


  • #3
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    I presume it is only intended for small files from SD cards as Nintendo probably designed it for video from digital cameras and the like.

    Anyway there shouldn't be any real problems with large files either other than buying an SD card large enough to store them. It only keeps a certain amount of any video buffered at any one time.


  • #4
    Goodshape
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    brim4brim wrote:
    Anyway there shouldn't be any real problems with large files either other than buying an SD card large enough to store them.
    SD Card's aren't that expensive these days -- [url=href=http://www.komplett.ie/k/search.asp?q=sd+card]Komplett.ie[/url]


  • #5
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    Or €39.99 from aldi on Thursday for a 2gb SD card


  • #6
    qwertplaywert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭qwertplaywert


    is that the bigest size aviable?


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  • #7
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    qwertplaywert wrote:
    is that the bigest size aviable?

    On offer in Aldi, Yes, but a 4gb and 8gb can be got from shop4memory


  • #8
    1huge1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭1huge1


    i used mine to put on a few pics boring enough really but then added a few mp3 files and played them in the backround while i did a slide show
    yawn


  • #9
    scrapland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭scrapland


    qwertplaywert wrote:
    is that the bigest size aviable?

    No you can get 4gb ones, but the wii only supports them upto 2gb so it's pointless getting a bigger one.


  • #10
    GrumPy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    Surely there must be a way of converting divx .avi files to work, and work at decent quality no?


  • #11
    Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    Irish GrumPy wrote:
    Surely there must be a way of converting divx .avi files to work, and work at decent quality no?
    Link I gave above works, but as I said I'm not sure how good the quality was. It turned my 600kb .3gp file into a 6mb mjpeg file so it bumps up the file size quite a bit. Hopefully Ninty will release support for other formats in the future.


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  • #12
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,809 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    If you are looking for cheap SD cards try www.7dayshop.com 1GB for roughly 14 euro!!


  • #13
    Niall0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Niall0


    Jimeatsmenu wrote:
    Link I gave above works, but as I said I'm not sure how good the quality was. It turned my 600kb .3gp file into a 6mb mjpeg file so it bumps up the file size quite a bit. Hopefully Ninty will release support for other formats in the future.
    3gp is highly compressed so its no surprise the file turned out bigger , a divx file it would probably be ok
    EDIT just converted an episode of the simpsons and it went from around 75 mb to 509mb!


  • #14
    NunianVonFuch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭NunianVonFuch


    Niall0 wrote:
    3gp is highly compressed so its no surprise the file turned out bigger , a divx file it would probably be ok
    EDIT just converted an episode of the simpsons and it went from around 75 mb to 509mb!

    Think it depends on the length, irregardless of quality. 180mb American Dad went to 510mb. It's certainly watchable, but I imagine there'll be a few updates to allow other formats to run, possibly coinciding with the web player being launched (e.g. wmv's/avi's online).


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