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Owlboy
I already put the Wii south park episode on my card using Wii Video 9 and it was a fairly easy process.

Ekaj185
I make 3D movies in Avi format, so I can watch my own little robotic squirrel creations take over the world, on my Wii!

Master Foot
Finally! Does it play in full screen? Nintendo needs to patch it to support an external HD.

wiiboy101
Great news. Did you know dvd quality movies in divx can be as small as 600mb? That's 3/4 movies on a 2gb sd card easy. Wii media just keeps getting better, they could do movie channels, divx channels, anything they want really.

sum1
Wii rocks! It'd be nice if it were capable of playing DVDs straight off the disc.

Airkat
Wiiboy, it says that it doesn't compress it. So it seems like we won't be seeing DVD quality in 600mb form.

wiiboy101
DivX compresses a dvd quality movie, plus dolby digital stereo sound to around 600/700mb. There's nothing stopping Nintendo upgrading firmware or adding a true divX movie channel, people are forgetting there's around 48 Wii channels to fill and the future holds more Wii fun than Wii have now. You can't say Wii doesn't support it as Wii has only just hit the streets, by next Christmas there could be 48 Wii channels to enjoy and one could be divx movie dedicated. Another could be itunes dedicated, Wii all know nothing yet. What do you think all those spare channels are for and the firmware upgradeable flash drive?

Zelda-dude
I have a 4gb sd memory card!

sparkyman
How do you get the files on the sd card?

fonz
Wii only reads 2 gb!

unclegeek
Well, has anyone noticed that (1) it's got wireless networking and (2) just what are those 2 usb ports for anyhow? Usb drive maybe?

pingwhen
The usb ports are for internet.

G
I have internet on my Wii without using USB ports.

mag
You don't need the usb ports for the internet, I would like to know what there for though.

Ekaj185
Zelda-dude's memory card is going to waste, fonz is right. Or he's no telling the truth.

Mediumbluemetalic
In responce to wiiboy101, I feel that an itunes channel would be amazing. Call it Wiitunes perhaps. This would allow several awesome features: instant access to personal music for video game soundtracks (like Excite Truck) and the ability to watch Itunes movies/tv shows on a TV screen rather than your Ipod or PC. If Nintendo is listening. Do this and crush the PS3.

TheOne
The USB is for the wireless router that Nintendo made for the Wii. There's probably other things that it can be used for.

Kevin
One of the usb ports can be used for the internet. Nintendo has an adapter out that plugs into the usb port and connects to an ethernet cable for people who don't have wireless internet.

Wiipaw
Nintendo should make a DVD channel! Well, mabie they should call it WiiVD Channel.

Wiikid21
How do I get videos from computer to sd card?

WiiMAN
You need a SD card port on your computer or a multi media card reader connected by USB to transfer info either way. If no port the card readers are cheap.

Marianjela
Can the USB ports be used with a jump drive? How 'bout putting the movies on a jump drive instead of a SD card?

Marioslovechild
I can't imagine anything more pointless then converting a movie to Video 9 for the Wii. Think about it, I want to watch a movie that's on my PC, to watch it on the Wii I would need to put it on an SD card, playing it on the Wii, taking the SD card back to my PC and swapping for the next movie. Better solution is to step-up a webserver on your PC and stream via wifi, there are plenty of Wii media centre apps out there (Orb comes to mind). Basically they all use the internet channel to stream movies, music, pictures off your hard drive. Much better than messing around with SD cards.

gunit
Good news, Wii movie channel is coming out September 3rd.

stupid kid
Great can't wait for movie channel.

WithHonor
You can watch youtube videos via Wii, so with that said, the question is: Anyone know how to get flash player so that if I search the web via my Wii I can watch videos/hear music? For example, if I were to go to myspace the music won't play because it needs a program in which the Wii does not contain. And I can't just download it from the Wii because it isn't supported. Riddle me that.

noah
Anyone know if you can plug an external hard drive into the Wii and play movies from there?

David
WiiVideo9 makes moves so big they won't even fit on a 2Gig SD Card, am I doing something wrong? It has to be MJPEG right?

Ablefable
I've tried streaming videos from the computer to Wii with Orb etc but the stream is too slow for action movies. Hope this SD card / DivX works. When will they make the Wii able to play DVDs? If it could read a DivX from a DVD you could have 4-6 movies on one disk, playable on your TV. That would be dreamy.

turpinator
First of all. There is no way Nintendo could add a dvd channel without an upgrade. The reader/spinner is only meant for data bursts, so about 4 sec. Continuously running the dvd would cause your dvd drive to break/burn out faster.

dragonflyy
Turpinator: the Wii can play DVDs. Been proven, though you have to mod because it's all homebrewed programs. But the hardware can handle playing DVDs just fine. It's the firmware that was never designed to do it. Other than that, the Wii just uses a standard DVD reader.

dancorave
I have so tried this. But I prefer to wait on the new release of Red Kawa. This works as a media center for your Wii. Which for you will not need to convert all of your movies.

cyko 4
This way is so easy! Yay movies on the Wii.

Baggers
I converted movies using 'Wii Video 9' and although the Wii can find them on my card, it won't play them. It always says wrong format. Thought this program converted movie files so the Wii could play them.

Yam
Okay. I converted my film. The estimated size was like 1.3Gb, it turned out to be 2.3Gb and so didn't fit my SD card. Evil Wii.

Joanna
Can the Nintendo Wii play divx from a memory stick duo? It has usb connect at the back, can I use that?

Dave
Don't think the USB ports are for accessing data like video. I have a usb keyboard hooked up to one and wiimote charger in the other. Orb is good but data rate is low and the frame rate is dropped to like 15fps. The problem we all have is nobody likes burning dvds. If there is an efficient way to get divx / avi straight into the Wii on sd card or memory stick that's the winner.

zipykido
I'm converting now, it is highly uncompressed. If you set the quality lower you can get a 1.4 gigs movie to about 700 mb. Anyway, this is much simpler than hooking up my computer to my tv, also I can do stuff on my computer now while watching a movie. The reason the Wii doesn't play dvd is because it then Nintendo would have to pay proprietary rights for dvds and that would increase the cost of the Wii by $50-100.

Edward
You could just use a program called Orb. It streams any media file you have on your computer on to the Wii. You just open the Wii internet channel and go to mycast.Orb.Com and log in while you have orb running on your pc and you get instant access to any movies, pics, or music you have on your pc. But if you want to use your sd and don't have a reader you could just stick it in your digital camera and plug the cam to the pc and transfer files that way. Orb is a better solution though. No need to convert any files or waste time copying files on to an sd card. Orb is free by the way.

Payne
Orb sounds like a good solution. The DVD player in a Wii can play DVD's, however the drive is designed for a low duty cycle; ergo playing DVD's will shorten the life of the drive considerably. Nintendo may fix this and pay for the codecs in future models, but don't count on a DVD movie channel for units already out there. Sucks big time.

omar
Where exactly do you put the file on the scancard like in a folder or something.

SonOfOdin
Here's an idea. Why don't they make a channel that would allow you to play the AVIs straight off a CD. Then you could just have a library of CDs with all your movies on them, the Wii could act as 'seudo' DVD player that way, only better.

D Morris
If you own a Mac download "Wii transfer" it has a free demo but converts movies in a matter of minutes depending on the size that will play on the Wii.

wingman
I just put a cable between the pc and the tv, I can see what I do on pc on the monitor and on the tv, play a movie and put the tv on the channel. Forget about playing movies on Wii because that isn't really going to happen, all the converting and copying etc. With cable you can start watching in seconds.

dark elfken
As nice as it would be to play DivX movies on the Wii, I can't help but think that it is just much easier to press a button on my TV remote and change the channel over to my DivX compatible DVD player. Can't imagine what all the fuss is about really.

luke
Can't really see where the idea comes from saying it can play divx movies, as you have to convert them, which means they are no longer divx.

Russ
Can't really see the point in this at the moment. I already have a dvd player that has usb port to allow me to play any movie I want on any size usb stick I want. If Nintendo decide to make an on demand movie channel, I might be interested as long as the movies are not too expensive or better yet a one off subscription fee for renting as much as you like. For now though seems like a lot of effort for something I can already do. That said I am fully in favour of Nintendo utilising the sd & usb ports more.

Melanie
I downloaded wiivideo9 and I put the Avi files on my sd card, but they won't play on the Wii! Is there a specific folder I need to put the files in first or what? What the heck am I doing wrong? I tried two different movies.

Melanie
Okay I figured it out, but I still need to know how to disable the screen saver if there is a way, every five minutes or so the screen goes dim, and you have to press A to make it get bright again. Also I could not fit a whole movie on my 2 gb card, what's going on here?

chris
Wingman, what input are you going into from your computer? That sounds like a nifty idea.

chris
Wingman, what input are you going into from your computer? That sounds like a nifty idea.