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I am using my Wii with FTP function to stream video’s from my NAS at home (with 100 Mbits upload connection) at my girlfriends place. It works partially, but the main issues I have are the following.

– Not showing folders when logging onto the FTP. I have to go back and forth about 4 times, before the folders start showing up. Though my FTP server log shows the wii has requested the folder data and it is send succesfully, WiiMC does not always show the content.

– Not playing files. The Wii will ask to download the file, FTP responds by sending it, but the Wii will abort transfer immediately. This results in WiiMC crashing (endless load) and having to reboot the system. This happens in 3 out of 4 times when trying to play a video.

Though, when it’s streaming, it will keep streaming without the need of buffering until the end of the video. When it tries to load the next file, it will crash (endless load), because the connection is aborted.

In early versions of MplayerCE it worked flawlessly, but I messed it up by updating the cIOS versions and I don’t know wich versions I used before. WiiMC makes use of the IOS58 so nothing custom is loaded and I think the IOS is to blame for the poor FTP function.

If anyone encounterd this problem before I’d like to hear from it. Streaming over the internet is quite a usefull function for me, because I don’t want to download everything before being able to watch it.

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