Hi, WIIMC is quite stable now and plays almost all files correctly without glitches, so you should not be having these problems.

Try copying a movie to your sd card and see if it plays ok from there. If so it would indicate that you have a network problem. Wireless LAN’s communicate on 2.4 ghz and can be interfered with by wireless phones and other routers in your neighborhood. You can use the free Insidder program to see the wireless router activity near you and then change the channel if there are routers competing for the one you are using.

It’s more likely a router dead spot rather than the TV. Try moving the router closer to the wii if possible.

I don’t have any other ideas. My WII sits on top of my projection TV and talks to my router in the basement about 25 feet away without any problems. Once its connected it never disconnects and movies play fine. Are you sure there aren’t ant other wireless devices like channel extender, baby monitors or wireless phones that could be doing it?

Also keep in mind no two Wiis are the same. My original launch day Wii had terrible Wifi (I kept losing the Shop Channel connection, if I could get it working at all). After that Wii was replaced, I haven’t had an issue since.

I am having nothing but problems playing SMB videos over wireless as well. I have one of the new Black Wiis. Running System menu 4.3U Improved (September update)

WiiMC constantly freezes while playing video. MP3s work flawlessly . The video becomes garbled and usually a high pitch squeal accompanies it sometimes within minutes, sometimes an hour into a movie. I am able to play directly from SD card and USB drive fine.

My router is a WRT54G running DD-WRT On Channel 11. I have the Wii’s IP address statically assigned in the router using MAC addressing. The only other wireless router I can detect is operating on channel 1. Signal quality of connection as shown VIA the routers Interface is 98% to 100%
Router load average is staying steady around 25%.

I’ve tried running WiiMC from the Homebrew Channel and from the WiiMC channel. Using a USB Thumb Drive as the Scratch area as well as an SD card with no noticeable improvement.

Is there anything else I can attempt here? Or am I going to have to move my PC back into the living room and Hook the DVI output into the TV again?

Love the whole look and feel of WiiMC. Hope I can get it working flawless as it should.

Mplayer SMB seems to be working seamlessly without any issues. I’m testing my second video with it now, Watched one that was <700M and this one is 1.4GB and it hasn't froze yet. Both videos were consistently freezing in WiiMC.
Mplayer OSD shows cache(74%) m1(0.15) m2(31.28) Not sure what m1/m2 are used for. Cache drops to 73% for a second every so often but no lower.

What IOS is WiiMC using? I’m running r592 of Mplayer CE, and I noticed that it is still using IOS 202. Is there a way to force WiiMC to use IOS202 to test if a change in IOS is causing this issue?

Ok, the beta version seems to have fixed my issue, although I did just have a freeze up, but I think it was coincidental just because I went to push home just as a video was ending and ended up freezing to a black screen, no garbled video, no high pitched buzz. I was able to watch nearly 4 hours of video over SMB without a single freeze during playback, and the beta version seems to have corrected my issue. Thank you.