Since the Wii is running the Opera browser, it’s (in a sense) allowing us to run limited unsigned applications on the Wii. Even more, through Opera (and perhaps not even limited to Opera), the Wii supports SWF natively.
The first thing we can do with this is write a media center as a web-application that would stream video using flash/flv to the Wii. This would require an application on a nearby PC to supply the video, but that’s cool. It should be able to setup the vlc media player to transcode in real time video into flv and stream it to some flash applet running in a web-page inside opera on the wii.
So, we need to develop a PC application that is also a web server and also a streaming video server, that can be done, even compiled into a single executable.
Heck it should work with any other console that allows unrestricted browsing and supports Flash natively
looks like these guys started something in this direction, but no automatic video streaming yet :
http://wii.secretdeveloper.com/download.html
here’s another fine example of a site writing a special Wii frontend and using Flash to deliver rich content (notice the Wii’sh UI): http://www.finetune.com/wii/
update: here we go – http://wiicr.org/wiki/index.php/WiiCR
http://www.redkawa.com/mediacenters/wiimediacenterx/
Easy wii surfing the web
I made a program that converts a list of web addresses in a text file into an html file with a title.
You can upload this webpage onto a webserver and use it as a favorite page. This way you will have convenient access to all your favorite sites while wii browsing. The setup program for windows (favwriteSetup.zip)is located here: http://www.geocities.com/rich_stol/utilities.htm
A Wii media center would be awesome!