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Cool, I will keep playing with it. Nice to know someone has mapping working sucessfully, cause it should work. Yes, it’s a Windows Only environment, the server is not linux nor the the Windows share I am trying to connect to. I have VLC Shares now installed on two of my media servers. One is for low def stuff (for the kids) on is for the HD stuff (adults). My ultimate plan is to run VLC Shares on only the fast HD media server and map to the Low Def files on the other server. It should work, just need to get the path statement working well. Oh, I was not able to browse to the DRIVE in question, the java like app in VLC Shares seems to just restrict me to the C: windows drive unfortunately. I don’t know of any way around that. I manually pounded in R:/ to access a different local drive. Are you able to “browse” to a drive other then C: ? Because, I can’t… What goofy picture do I click on to get to a different drive ?

Regarding the “move on message” there ARE directories on that mapped network drive, so I should be able to see those folders. Hum, processing, maybe I will try

Z:/~Movies/ that will put it directly into the folder holding the .avi files. Nope, no dice, same error. Lets try,..
//LESGAME/Les Downloads/~TV Series/ which would be SMB direct access if this PHP server supports SMB which I don’t think it does, nope, same “move on message”. Drive Z IS mapped to //LESGAME/Les Downloads/ on the media server. Just hard coding Z:/ “should” work, frigg.

If you don’t mind, would you be able to copy and paste your actual Shared Folders path statement. Then I will for sure have the slashes going in the correct direction. I know exactly what you mean, linux wants one way, windows the other 🙁

Also, um, how did you do your map statement on your Win 7 (I assume) machine. Windows GUI with Reconnect at Login or Dos map command (aka NET USE …. /persistent:yes ) ? I am currently using the GUI.

Thanks Emerkamp

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You might try just attaching a usb DVD drive to the Wii, then using the DVD button within WiiMC. Many DVD’s work just fine, this link might help.

http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1626

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Yeh, I find it hit and miss as well. Seems to depend a lot of the DVD used. I like using the pointer myself if the DVD is supported well.

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Use an external usb DVD drive, instead of the built-in Wii one.

It’s not a perfect solution as I find it chugs and pixilates sometimes when watching a DVD, but you could try attaching a portable usb dvd drive to your Wii. It works! And I have watched DVD’s in WiiMC using my portable usb DVD drive. I find though, once you get the DVD playing, don’t stop it, that seems to hang the player and then your sunk.

Note, the Menu items within the DVD player icon just don’t seem to work on all DVD’s but many higher quality DVD’s work perfectly. When this happens you get the DVD front cover display screen, you just don’t seem to be able to do anything with it. If I have a bad/poor quality DVD, instead I go to Videos / usb / and play VTS_01_2.VOB . It’s a sucky solution, but seems to work adequately sometimes. When the DVD won’t play from the DVD icon, I usually get major pixilization and the DVD movie is totally unwatchable. A lot of DVD through work just fine.

Maybe Tantric can do something to clean this up, but yeh using a portable usb DVD drive does seem to work.

The model I use is MSI model #DSE-8AS-A , there are TWO usb connections as it needs extra power, so you are going to need to unplug your usb harddrive.

I have tried MPlayerCE and it’s DVD button will only try to mount a DVD inside the Wii DVD drive (not the usb emulated DVD drive that WiiMC seems to read ok). When trying to play the VOB file directly via Open / File / Wii USB Mplayerce asks for a File System to use. And of none of them work unfortunately (fat32,ntfs,ext2).

MPlayerTT seems to just not run and kicks up back to HBC.

Note, Homebrew Browser seems to exception/crash if run while the dual usb plug usb DVD drive is plugged in.
Same for WiiXplorer. Unsure why?

Seems WiiMC is our only hope and it work pretty good, Tantric are there any ideas you have here on better DVD compatibility? The DVD’s that I run into problems with are unfortunately mostly my kids cartoon dvd’s, which is unfortunate as I am trying to train my kids to play there archived DVDs 🙂 I do nothing but more recent downloaded/smb videos.

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+2
Yup, this would be cool 🙂 Maybe only display at the time of hitting “Pause” so it would not eat into the already limited resources of the Wii when playing videos.

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You know what I would like to see, be able to make an SMB network share on your PC and have WiiMC read the VOBS directly off of the PC DVD drive. There are soooooo many Wii’s that have happered DVD drives that don’t play retail DVD’s anymore, that I think the best solution is to just allow you to read the DVD files directly off the PC’s DVD drive.

Slick and cool, wondering if it’s capable and only Tantric would know.

I have attempted to do the setup above and it does not work… but I have tried. Tantric if you would like me to try any new code to possibly test this, I am totally game. I am a Network Admin.

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I have seen this many times before as well. It almost always happens when your Windows computer that is hosting the SMB share is crazy busy (like reloading a Wii usb harddrive) or your doing something else that is consuming resources.

As well, it can happen due to your antivirus software. This used to happen personally with a 1 1/2 year older version of Avast, which is what I use almost exclusively. Using the latest version of Avast fixes this if you want to move over to free Avast. BTW, Avast integrates well with Utorrent, if that is something that you use. 🙂

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Actually in the general technical support area of WiiMC (nothing to do with the forums), it states very clearly that you need a stable install of IOS58. You should have gone there FIRST for the tech needs before you hit the forums. Sounds like you did the standard “male” thing we always do, NEVER READ THE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST. 🙄 Been there, done that.

Anyways, good to see your WiiMC is working stably, oh and don’t take the previous retort by jhb50 personally, hey we all bungle things up and that included you, me and the guy next door 😉

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Possible Xbox 360 Homebrew Development / Port ?

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Actually, I am asking the same question as well. There really is ZERO quality native media players for the Xbox 360 and the std “windows” media player within the xbox 360 has so many issues, restrictions and lacks real High Def abilities unless you allow yourself to get steered by Microsoft to there paid download sites.

So the hardware totally has the ability to do this, it’s just through social/software engineering that you can’t get native High Def video playing on the xbox 360. Forget about .mkv’s. This is a classic case for real Homebrew development.

If WiiMC decided to “port” to the xbox 360 platform there would be a stampede of users that will install it on there 360’s and totally abandon all the silly “media server” software transcoding solutions that are out there, as 360 users are forced to use the built-in Windows Media player on there 360’s, as there are NO alternatives. Playing videos using a homebrew app directly off of usb or smb drives, not only hugely simplifies video playing solutions and possible Windows computer overhead as you don’t need “media server” software, but also to get native HDef abilities, which is currently totally hampered by Microsoft.

There are some other Homebrew video player attempts on the 360 out there, but they don’t have any proper Mplayer code in them “to play anything”, NONE are mature products, no support team, lack SMB, and are really poor. WiiMC would be amazing on the Xbox 360, as there is such a mature development team and because there really is zero competition of Homebrew xbox 360 native media players. The stampede from 360 users to WiiMC on the 360 would be, well…. crazy huge, as it’s the primary “problem” with the 360. Microsoft is still in “war” mode with the HD DVD vs BluRay movie playing drive support, and still has never developed a Sony BluRay drive for the 360. Instead they have opt’ed to push folks to MS download sites, Netflix and other “online” solutions where Microsoft continually collects there $75/yr fee for the required Xbox Live service, just to have something as simple as Netflix. If you guys ever contemplated a port, the 360 is in real need, and the install base is huge.

If you asked folks to “donate” for Xbox 360 development, I know I would be the first to pony up and litterly tonnes of others would as well. Anyways, think about it, I think it’s a worthy consideration, it also would allow you guys to diversify a bit, which might be kind of fun 🙂

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Hi team,
I have had a recent major success and I thought I would share it. A fat32 partition should just be a fat32 partition, right ? Should it mater which program you use to format it? Shouldn’t should it.

We I was having onto problems of WiiMC crashing at all sorts of times, on a mixture of different Wii’s and different (usually larger then 1TB or usb 3.0 type drives). I was pretty sure it was because of the larger sizes or usb 3.0 spec.
I was able to fix the problem by downgrading to WiiMC 1.1.9 , so I just lived with the older version of WiiMC, and trained folks to NOT allow it to be updated.

My program of choice to format my drives at fat32 was “fat32format.exe”. It’s a cool utility, free and is totally command line, so you just put it into your c:windowssystem32 directory and run it from the command prompt like this fat32format e:
works great, and drive is formated as fat32 in about 1 minute (std quick format). It’s a great utility. Then to my astonishment when I went into diskpart one day on one of the troublesome usb drives it was signified as a fat16 format. It was large, 2TB, but diskpart said it was fat16, wow. That’s weird, so the thinking cap went on and I decided to just reformat the entire drive (total pain) as fat32 using Acronis, which was recommend on another forum to get a Wii to recognize a 3TB usb drive properly (a different issue). Acronis has a disk management area, and formatting as fat32 takes only about 3 minutes. Then Ran Wii Backup Manger to reload my Wii game images, backup nand with my Virtual Console games, and emulator’s that store my roms on the usb drive. Takes a while.

But to my astonishment after upgrading WiiMC to the latest version, IT STOPPED PERIODICALLY CRASHING! Just wanted to report this, that a bad/sucky fat32 format can crash WiiMC. Using WiiMC 1.1.9 fixes the issue, but just properly reformatting the drive with Acronis is the real solution.

Acronis is my friend now and WiiMC runs perfectly on any drive that is formated with it. 😀

Please note, one of my “downgrades” was to just move over to MPlayer CE, but I find that interface totally sucky, so I found just using the older version of WiiMC 1.1.9 was a much better solution, and more user friendly.

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@Tantric wrote:

Of course. Don’t give that user any privileges for the folder.

Hi Tantric,

Can WiiMC do any windows Domain Authentication ? (Corporate Environment, like Windows Server 2003 for example)

Also, AFAIK, as soon as you attach the Workstation to the Domain, all your windows Workgroup security stops. A workstation can only be attached to a Domain or Workgroup, but not both.

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Hi vmail,

Yeh, mmmm. Not only that, you probably don’t want your share to be browsable (especially if your in a corporate / work setting) by all the other users on the network from their Explorer.

AFAK , WiiMC does not have any support for Domain Authentication, which is what you would need, but that is fine. It’s the old Workgroup network model (standard home networking setup) vs a business Domain network model. But, how about this, instead of making a general share viewable and usable by all (due to group Everyone), why not make it a hidden share! Then you would have the wonderful non-security stuff to remove the Workgroup/Domain security blocking, ASWELL making that share not viewable by other users on the network.

Let me test….. I am using WiiMC 1.1.9

Yes, made a share Test$ (add a $ to the end of a share name to make it hidden), plunk in the ip and share name Test$ into WiiMC, place a video into the share (my favourite “Shaun the Sheep”) and light up WiiMC 1.1.9. Perfect! WiiMC can wonderfully view Hidden shares.

I think you now have a proper solution for WiiMC use in a Corporate environment

Les

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@vmail wrote:

I cant use SMB on a domain PC, I have to type DOMAIN_NAMEUSERNAME there is no on the keyboard and I have tried adding it on the setting file

Ok, understand your pain. But WiiMC does not address the Share by \computershare or \workgroupshare or \domainusername, as far as I have seen it is STRICTLY: IP, user name, password. And nothing else.

If you setup a Share on your Domain workstation, give it a name, give rights to the group “Everyone”, don’t setup any user based security of any kind, and can access the share from some other computer, ANY computer wither it’s on the domain or not, you should be OK. It kind of comes down to you using the group “Everyone” in your security tab, that is where you setup your permissions. There are a few areas to look at when setting up an SMB share (domain based or workgroup based)
Share Tab on the folder in question (like c:userslesdownloads), make sure security to read/write to group Everyone
And the Security Tab where you give the group Everyone, “Full Control”

What OS are you running, Win7 or XP ?
in Win7 you also need to go to Network and Sharing / Advanced Sharing / Work Profile / Turn OFF password protected sharing. That setting is very important on Win7

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Ahh, WOW !

Um, just a tech question, would that script interact with Utorrent running on a remote computer ? I noticed that TorrentButler uses Magnet links.

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I wish we had a switch we could add to the config files as well, to disable the automatic update feature as well. I have found some of the updates to “break” other things as well, it’s fine for the regular joe to get the update but for some folks who have that PERFECT setup, why change what works well with your hardware.

But, I guess the true answer is, if you want to stop updates, you are already a power user and should be using WiiMC+

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