[rodries]

Any and all filters are too much of a strain for the Wii.

[rodries]

No.

[rodries]

Apparently it doesn’t work for all USB drives. That’s all I can tell you right now.

[rodries]

That’s what the Videos tab is for.

[rodries]

It is possible. I’ve personally set one of those up for WiiMC.

[rodries]

It’s not broken – it requires an updated CIOS – which you don’t have. It’ll be distributed when 1.0.5 comes out.

[rodries]

SMB itself is just a spec – the actual SMB implementation is a custom one written Wii only – by me – it’s called tinySMB. So it’s quite possible (and actually a certainty) that there are bugs in tinysmb. Especially since people have reported that MPCE 0.62 (which would use an older tinysmb) has completely stable SMB.

[rodries]

When you click on a video, you see the Loading… message. At this time MPlayer is loading and looking for a codec that can play the video. Then, the video will start playing. Immediately it’s detected the buffer is low, so you see “Buffering…” message. This attempts to buffer the % of the cache (12 MB) that you’ve set in the settings. Default is 30% so that’d be 3.6 MB of the video. Once that’s full, the video starts playing. From there, buffering is happening while you’re watching. If the buffer runs low (eg: < 4%), the video is paused and "Buffering…" is displayed. The cache is filled back up to 30%, and once that's reached, the video is unpaused.

If I do something like unplug my USB LAN adapter or shut off my server, the cache keeps attempting to refill itself, and the video is played until the cache runs out. When this happens, you’re booted back to the WiiMC main menu, and your files are listed.

So what’s happening then to cause a crash? If I knew exactly I’d probably be able to fix it. But perhaps somehow some “bad” (unexpected?) data is coming through SMB (only on wifi?). This data is put in the cache, which then MPlayer doesn’t know how to process, and it crashes. Just a theory.

[rodries]

Actually I find my usb lan adapter buffers slower than wifi.

But yes, the difference is like night and day in the sense that I’ve never ever had a crash on the usb lan adapter. Not even once.

So I’m not so sure (using your metaphor) that the pool is empty, it seems more like the “scoop” is breaking 😉

[rodries]

This is currently not supported – DVD menus are only supported for actual DVDs.

[rodries]

This feature is coming in the next release.

[rodries]

When it’s ready.

[rodries]

The code is completely different in so many ways, that this wouldn’t be useful.

[rodries]

I never ever have a SMB freeze with my lan adapter. But on wifi I do have them sometimes.

So it’s definitely related to wifi somehow. That’s all I know.

[rodries]

Yes it’s supposed to be Browser Folders, it’s correct as-is

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