HackMii

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• 1 SquidMan // Aug 12, 2008 at 4:48 pm

  First comment!

  Awesome dude! I can’t wait to see lots of apps use this! I’m sure everyone appreciates your work

• 2 mousey // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:01 pm

  Thanks for the release and your continued efforts to push the Wii homebrew scene forward

  Mouse

• 3 bottmint // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:01 pm

  sweeeet! great work guys im going to love this particular bit of homebrew for a looooong time. keep up the kik ass work hackmii crew and others

• 4 TheDuck // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:02 pm

  Nice! Team Twiizers and co, you never fail to COMPLETELY AMAZE me!

• 5 Ibrahim Awwal // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:02 pm

  Nice, so the included mplayer will play DVD videos? That’s one less reason to have to switch between my Wii and dvd player on my TV’s inputs, and between this and Geexbox/Wii Miidia when it’s released my media playing duties will all be handled by the Wii.

• 6 Daverball // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:03 pm

  Nice work Team Twiizers!
  I think I’m going to try this one out soon.

• 7 Zim // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:18 pm

  W00tness!! I can’t wait to try this out!

  Thanks for the release, Erant!

• 8 linkinworm-c98 // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:22 pm

  advanced install?? why would one want to sellect the IOS version for this app?

• 9 XanLoves // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:29 pm

  Wow.
  I really appreciate all the work you guys have done over the past few months, the progress has been staggering.
  I cannot wait to try this out ^_^

• 10 thinkoutsidetheb0x // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:29 pm

  Excellent job! I can’t wait for further progress with libdi.

  OT: have you guys played into the Wii’s usb for going over the size limit (2GB)?

• 11 w11h4x0r // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:34 pm

  awesome, I love the work that you guys do, and the fact that you included the source!
  keep it up!
  i’m looking forward to seeing the patched boot2 / further menu hacks.

• 12 christenm123 // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:39 pm

  Excellent! Works like a charm. Now I don’t have to switch between my 360 and Wii when I want to watch a DVD. Thanks for making things a little bit easier for me.

• 13 Unicron // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:40 pm

  I’ve gotta say, you guys really impress me(yet again). Tested this out now, and i works near flawless. Why near? Well, DVDs are a bit choppy sometimes. Other than that, it’s great!

  The scene really owes you a great deal!

• 14 chungy // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:47 pm

  Which are the specific cases where I’ll need a patched IOS?

  It doesn’t seem to play DVDs on my Wii (which has System Menu 3.3), neither commercial DVDs with CSS (tested A Knight’s Tale) nor a non-commercial DVD without CSS (tested Star Trek: New Voyages pilot on a DVD+R). I don’t know how to long to wait, but I’ve waited at least 2 minutes for it to load either disc.

• 15 youvegotiviail // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  Thank you

  ::cries::

• 16 Arm the Homeless // Aug 12, 2008 at 5:58 pm

  Oh my god.
  You’re awesome!
  Thanks.

• 17 Whibo // Aug 12, 2008 at 6:02 pm

  Fully functional on my NTSC-U Wii with no modchip and with system menu version 3.3 but is it dangerous to break the DVD drive by reading a DVD continuously instead of running a wii game sometimes to run the data?

• 18 darksoul // Aug 12, 2008 at 6:02 pm

  Wow it actually kinda works. Playback speed on the DVD’s is ass right now (READ: Slow and choppy at best), but at least it works. Nice looking interface and most files CAN be read of the sd card so good job and thanks….

• 19 linkinworm-c98 // Aug 12, 2008 at 6:12 pm

  oo, sorry about this(you really should get an edit button lol) there seems to be many bugs getting Mplayer to work, for me its crashing on 34% loading through HBC, my mate it crashed on the loop video. ill have a vid up soon on my youtube tho of it workingm jus thought u should know

  youtube.com/linkinworm1

• 20 Navarr // Aug 12, 2008 at 6:54 pm

  Very nice. Already using it to play どうぶつの森. I am curious, I remember hearing about deteriation of the laser in the Wii, is this true, and how long is the laser estimated to last if using the Wii as a DVD player?

• 21 bushing // Aug 12, 2008 at 7:05 pm

  I’ll leave to Erant to explain why, but as far as I know the idea that playing a DVD is harmful in any way to a drive is a myth.

• 22 uberushaximus // Aug 12, 2008 at 7:09 pm

  It’s working excellently right now, watching “Hackers (1995)” right now ;D

• 23 Navarr // Aug 12, 2008 at 7:35 pm

  Oh, thanks for that @bushing.

  As for quality. It seemed to not work properly when trying to use the menu (but who needs menus?) and it crashed when trying to load a big video (as expected). But keep up the good work, and please don’t stop improving!

  (It’d be awesome if we could read from USBs and read files off of the DVD drive instead of just Discs ;))

• 24 HobGoblin // Aug 12, 2008 at 7:42 pm

  You Guy’s Are Friggin Greattt!!!!!!!!

• 25 windwaker // Aug 12, 2008 at 7:46 pm

  There is no way Nintendo would purposefully use gimped DVD drives, which aren’t really commercially available anywhere right now.

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• 29 goofster1020 // Aug 12, 2008 at 9:40 pm

  omg, fricken sweet! ive been waiting for this =] you guyz are da bomb! (lol, me with my lingo….)

• 30 Ibrahim Awwal // Aug 12, 2008 at 9:43 pm

  Hi, I’ve gotten it to play a DVD but it took some time before the DVD started playing. I didn’t actually watch the DVD for very long because I was just testing, but it seemed like it doesn’t use the DVD menus and just goes straight to the first title. Is that what libdvdnav is for? I tried that and it seemed to take even longer to start up. It’s a nice start, but I hope the speeds improve over time. I’m hoping eventually there will be a nice homebrew media center with a good UI that my family will be able to use, because currently I think they would be a bit lost trying to use mplayer to play a DVD (despite how easy it is, somehow non-techies require a lot of instruction).

• 31 chungy // Aug 12, 2008 at 10:32 pm

  Well, you have to give some time for libdvdcss (which I assume is being used) to crack the CSS key used on almost all commercial DVDs… though I can’t really imagine that taking longer than a minute on the Wii’s CPU.

• 32 kedest // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:29 am

  I’ve already installed the dvd-enabling ios249 on my wii. Is running Patchmii then still required to get this working?

• 33 crisdo98 // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:34 am

  yes very freakin nice indeed! Having troubles downloading the files.. guess the news has put a lot of stress on the server.. will be back to try out later on!! Thanks again!

• 34 bell // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:51 am

  “If you have a modchip, you also need patchmii, in addition to the DVDX stub installer.”

  Wasn’t there talk about how only some modchips needed a patched IOS? Do all modchips really need a patched IOS?

• 35 Erant // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:53 am

  The myth of you being able to ‘burn out’ a DVD laser is pretty much what it says on the tin, a myth. This drive was designed specifically for two things. reading Wii games, and reading DVD-Videos. There are special commands in the drive for doing so. (We use these commands to read these discs without a modchip). So, these drives were designed with reading DVD-Videos in mind. (And even if they wern’t, you’re running the entire drive in spec. I’ve been told these myths came about when people were pot-tuning their PS2s, running them out of spec. Running any piece of hardware beyond the limits that were set for it will break it in the long run)

  “Wasn’t there talk about how only some modchips needed a patched IOS? Do all modchips really need a patched IOS?”

  That’s a ‘no’ to the second question. Unfortunatly, detecting these modchips isn’t an easy job. We’ll probably incorporate an auto-detect option into the DVDX installer at some point, but we were already kinda late, so we left it like this for now. (It’s also a small percentage of all modchips, think around 5-10%)

• 36 marcan // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:55 am

  @kdest
  Using advanced mode and selecting IOS249 may work.

  @bell
  Apparently most modchips need it. Every modchip will also work with it (whether they actually require it or not), so it’s the easiest option for modchip users. Feel free to try normal mode without PatchMii and report if it works with your modchip.

• 37 bell // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:20 am

  @marcan & erant:
  I’m referring to this post: http://wiinewz.com/forums/544109-post1.html which claims that yaosm doesn’t need the patched IOS while OpenWii does.

  yaosm and OpenWii basicly works the same way so I’m just curious about why OpenWii fails when yaosm works. I guess I can do a little source code comparing and see if I can come with some ideas for the OpenWii folks to experiment with. I think I have a clue where to start looking.

• 38 NoOne // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:32 am

  Great work everybody who worked on it! It works flawlessly on my NTSC-U Wii (version 3.3). No choppiness at all in normal playback. The only problem I’ve seen is switching chapters screws up the audio sync, but I’m sure that is an easy fix whenever you guys get around to it. It doesn’t even happen all the time.

  Just one question though, could the DVD stub be disabled and/or cause problems with a future Wii Update?

• 39 sanderevers // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:43 am

  It seems to work, but I can’t go past the DVD menu of most commercial DVDs and the subtitle setting is forgotten after every chapter.

• 40 marcan // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:00 am

  @bell
  I have a yaosm and it doesn’t seem to work. I think it might work with older versions.

  From what I hear (read: double check with Erant), if the modchip clears the DVD flag in the mediaflags, it won’t work.

  @NoOne:
  They could try to disable it, but really, why bother. Either way, if that happens, PatchMii could be extended to include the DVD patch and then we could just use it for everyone and get rid of the stub.

• 41 Jespertje // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:22 am

  Marcan, are you planning to incorperate the dvd-video function in the wii-system menu? So that when you insert a dvd-video and you go to the disk channel that the dvd-video logo appears at the screen an when you click begin, Mplayer loads and plays the movie. Or isn’t that possible?

• 42 HCK // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:30 am

  OK I’ m really stupid I guess…I installed DVDX the normal way using HBC.

  Then executed MPlayer and loop.mov played

  What do I need to do now? the controller doesn’ t seem to work and inserting a DVD doesn’ t change anything and the menu doesn’ t pop up…What’ s up? (I’ m using a PAL 3.2 unmodded Wii)

• 43 HCK // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:57 am

  sorry for double post…I get the Menu Init failed error, how can I solve this?

• 44 TwilightWii // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:39 am

  Congratulations on the release of dvdlib the new mplayer for it to work!
  Tried a few movies and they work great!
  Best one is Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within. No lag or anything!
  Just amazing how it is done!

  Thanks Team Twiizers

• 45 i_speel_good // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:08 am

  Does mplayer read the videos in AVI format or does VOB format work? (even if it does, I guess I’d have to DVDShrink the movie and remove the menus, I guess?)

• 46 Midda // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:24 am

  Just tried this out, amazing work! Easy to get up and running too.

  The Mplayer app still needs a little work though, I think. Playback was a bit choppy for me, and the colours looked a little washed out. I only tried one DVD, though. Still, impressive!

• 47 bell // Aug 13, 2008 at 6:58 am

  @Marcan & Erant:

  Erant wrote “Ironically, the ones that do a better job of emulating a real Wii disc are the ones that need the modified IOS. Modchip vendors can easily identify compatibility by checking wether or not they set the 0×10 flag in the 0×8576 (D2A/DMS) memory location. Yaosm has been tested as working. D2CKey is most likely not supported, and OpenWii has been tested as not supported.”

  For example, with DVD-R the low byte of 0×8576 is 0×18 and the modchip temporarily changes it to 0×28 during the disclogin process. Once the disclogin is finished it is changed to 0×38. I believe all “old” modchips does this (WiiKey, wiinja, OpenWii, WiiFree, yaosm) and yaosm has always been working like that. However later versions of most modchips does indeed clear the 0×10 (changing 0×38 back to 0×28) in case of an 0xA4 DI command (the SMG check). Are you using 0xA4 commands with libdi?

• 48 pkgingo // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:03 am

  @HCK:

  When you put the mplayer folder for the homebrew channel in the apps folder you renamed it. The app paths are hard coded. Rename your other mplayer folders and leave this one as mplayer.

• 49 Erant // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:05 am

  The reason for some modchips working, and others not, is the presence or absence of the DVDVideo flag in the so-called mediaflag. Some modchips clear it, some don’t. Some modchips never even set it.

  Simply put, if your modchip fails the Error 001 it will not need a patchmii-d IOS. If it doesn’t fail it, it might not need it, depending on how your specific modchip worked around the issue. (Turning off the DVDVideo flag just for 0xA4 means no patchmii, working around the issue completely and not ever setting the DVDVideo flag means patchmii). I’ll whip up a test-program for you guys to test which modchip is supported or not soon-ish.

• 50 Smalls // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:10 am

  Good work Team Twiizers.

  Can’t wait for GeeXbox to implement this, since GeeXbox allows you to go into the folders inside a USB device.

  I might even try to implement this into GeeXbox myself. They’ll probably release one quicker than me, since there is no source.

• 51 Zeldafanzero // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:16 am

  Hello, this is my first post here.

  Firstly, I want to say thanks for the DVD player, I’ve been looking forward to this since it was announced and it’s great!

  One problem I’ve noticed however is that it takes about two minutes to load the DVD once I’ve selected it from the menu. Is this normal?

  Another issue is that none of the DVD commands like skipping chapters or fast-forwarding seem to work and instead just crash the program (With the exception of Pause).

  It should be noted that I use an unmodded PAL Wii.

  Is there ever going to be the possibility of playing other video files off a DVD in the future? Is the team still going to work on their version of mplayer, or is it just going to be left to the public now?

  Thanks.

• 52 kevind23 // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:16 am

  I haven’t really been following any of this, but is the “mplayer” you speak of the actual mplayer?

• 53 bell // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:24 am

  “Turning off the DVDVideo flag just for 0xA4 means no patchmii”

  That’s exactly what yaosm do. If DI-buffer contains 0xa4 then 0×38 is changed to 0×28 and afterwards it restores it to 0×38. However marcan says yaosm needs patchmii. Doesn’t make sense.

  This is how yaosm does it (removed code that doesn’t have to do with this exact issue so it looks a bit different than the real code):
  movbu (_addr_8308),d0 #Read DI to d0
  cmp 0xA4,d0 #A4 command?
  bne no_smg_fix #No?, then we’re done
  bclr16 (_addr_8576),4 #0×38->0×28
  no_smg_fix:
  jsr sub_851F1 #DI handler is called
  movbu (_addr_8576),d0 #Read Mediabyte
  cmp 0×28,d0 #Does it need patching?
  bne _label1b #No?
  bset16 (_addr_8576),4 #0×28->0×38
  bra _label1b #loop

• 54 mighti // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:37 am

  ehm… i’m new at this and i guess a little stupide ^^ how do you install something on your wii? do you simply put the files on sd, cd or dvd, insert the media and wait for something to happen?

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• 58 udsan // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:50 am

  It is wonderful. Thank you really.
  I was able to confirm operation with Wii not remodeled.

• 59 comex // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:58 am

  @kevind23: yes.

• 60 damien // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:03 am

  I am with you mighti.. It sounds good hearing that this is working for many people, but how on earth can us n00bs get it done?

  I downloaded both the files you said to download, unzipped them and put the folders on an sd card which i then placed in the wii… Am I doing this right or…?

  HELP!!! =S

• 61 Erant // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:05 am

  @bell

  It could be because I issue no readdiscid command when I detect no modchip. The next version will issue a readdiscid regardless of modchip/non-modchip. That should restore compatibility.

• 62 HCK // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:23 am

  @pkgingo

  Thank you

• 63 HCK // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:42 am

  Tested Pirates of Caribbean 1 and Spiderman 2, both original DVD-Videos.

  The only issue is the random frameskip but it’ s absolutely outstanding as first relase.

  Congratulations Team Twiizers! You are the best console hackers ever

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• 65 Whibo // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:51 am

  Do you will add a function to read Audio CDs to mplayer or create a new homebrew for this so the Wii will be able to replace a DVD Player ?

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• 69 basky727 // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:25 am

  hate to admit it but I’m with mighti… I’d love to take advantage of this hack. is there a “dummies” guide on doing the install. sorry - total newb

• 70 marcan // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:40 am

  @Whibo
  Reading any kind of CDs is totally impossible with the Wii’s optical drive. It does not have the required hardware components.

• 71 tom35 // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:46 am

  I was able to do a normal install without the Patchmii_Core installed with my D2Pro 9 Wire modchip installed.
  The D2Pro is an original which I had purchased the SPI seperately and installed.
  My D2Pro is flashed with the firmware from the 1.5 Utility Disk.

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• 73 gorevash // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:54 am

  First log here!

  Cannot thank you enough for all you guys have done over the past few months. It is amazing how far you have come!
  I used to read magazines when i was a kid and i remember reading about Shigeru Miyamoto. I longed to be able to speak with that guy, but alas he is very busy and so on.
  Technology has brought us up to meeting people in an easier way, and let me tell you that i feel honored to be able to communicate and read posts directly from you. I think you are as creative and great as Shigeru. Goog job!

  So far I have noticed a LOT of people having problems, are the ones who own PAL systems. I know nothing of dvd coding, but there seems to be a pattern here. Do you guys work first on NTSC issues and then move on to PAL?

  PS: I own a NTSC

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• 75 venom228 // Aug 13, 2008 at 10:14 am

  how do u put all of this on the wii through sd card or dvd

• 76 Navarr // Aug 13, 2008 at 10:42 am

  @Erant: Thanks for clearing that up. Thought, it still doesn’t make any sense why Nintendo said that they’d have to change the hardware for playing DVDs, and why a DVD channel hasn’t become available yet from Nintendo.

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• 78 xeonexis // Aug 13, 2008 at 10:46 am

  Hi there, sorry to bother. I am really new to all of this but I would be really grateful if someone could please explain to me (step by step) what I need to do to install the applications in order to play DVDs on my Wii? I have a unit that is not modded. I do not have a internet browser on my unit as well. Thanks a million!

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• 80 cfdrummer // Aug 13, 2008 at 11:06 am

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• 86 stevey // Aug 13, 2008 at 11:28 am

  @ basky727, damien, and mighti

  To run homebrew software you will need to used a hacked Zelda: TP game save, called the Twilight Hack, that allows you to boot code off the SD card. Since needing to run Zelda every time is a pain, Team Twiizers made the Homebrew Channel to boot code off the SD with a home made channel, but to install it first you need to run the Twilight Hack at lease once. After that, all you need to do is put all the Homebrew software you want on the SD card in the directory SD:\apps\*homebrew software name*\boot.elf (or boot.dol). For a more detailed step by step and info please see
  http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Setting_up_your_Wii_for_Homebrew
  http://hbc.hackmii.com/
  http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel
  http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps
  http://wiibrew.org/

  A few warnings before you start….
  *You will have to (temporally) delete your old Zelda off the wii and sd card so make sure you have it backed up on you PC
  *This will void the wii warranty
  *Running bad code could possibly and can brick your Wii

• 87 Dingchow // Aug 13, 2008 at 11:32 am

  Is their a uninstaller for the patchmii?

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• 89 putifreak // Aug 13, 2008 at 11:50 am

  Is there a way to uninstall patchmii core?

• 90 Matando // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:10 pm

  There’s an error with the build of libdi.

  When building the library I get a “c:/devkitPro/Projects/di/stubload.c: In function ‘__DI_StubLaunch’:
  c:/devkitPro/Projects/di/stubload.c:127: warning: implicit declaration of functi
  on ‘ES_LaunchTitleBackground’”
  and it builds. Of cource I figured nothing of it and typed “make install” to install the library.

  My Next Step was to build the example. The only problem was it came up with the same error it came up with whem building the library.

  “linking … example.elf
  c:/devkitPro/libogc/lib/wii\libdi.a(stubload.o): In function `__DI_StubLaunch’:
  c:/devkitPro/Projects/di/stubload.c:127: undefined reference to `ES_LaunchTitleB
  ackground’
  c:/devkitPro/Projects/di/stubload.c:151: undefined reference to `__IPC_Reinitial
  ize’
  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status”

  So A Little Help Please

• 91 dt_ // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:13 pm

  Can anyone please help me with this?

  I have Mplayer installed and it plays videos on the SD card just fine. However, when I go to DVD-Video and click “Play DVD” it just freezes. You can hear the DVD spinning at first and then it just stops. What’s going on? What do I need to do with that “DI” folder?

  Thanks!

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• 93 predatorian // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:18 pm

  Works great here but only with non protected dvds. All commercial ones doesn’t load after pressing play DVD. Using NTSC-U with Wii-IC modchip with latest wii updates

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• 95 Blue-K // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:28 pm

  So, first: I own a PAL Wii with Current System 3.3 and a WiiKey on 1.9s.

  1) I installed the Mplayer
  2) I installed PatchMii
  3) I installed DVDX with PatchMii-Option

  And…IT WORKS!!!Awsome!

  But I have one question: Now I have a modified IOS on my Wii (due PatchMii). If I upgrade my Wii System, have I to run PatchMii again? Or will it brick my Wii? Sorry If I’m talking Bull****, but I’m a little noob…

• 96 DAud_IcI // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:31 pm

  Hay, thanks guys! I love what you are doing.
  I own a PAL Wii and I tested it on a Region 2 DVD and worked perfectly. Thanks ^^

• 97 Would be Cool » Blog Archive » The Wii finally gets DVD playback — no thanks to Nintendo // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:34 pm

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• 98 joreag // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  I can not access the links. I keep getting a not authorized error. Have these been pulled or something?

• 99 Cuber // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:40 pm

  @gorevash

  It’s true… I have a PAL Wii and my DVDs don’t play back to well, the programme crashes a lot… sucks to be PAL.

  Anyway, great work! Looking forward to future releases.

• 100 Canal de Wii habilita DVD - Gizmoteca // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:50 pm

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• 101 La Nintendo Wii peut lire vos films DVD | TechnoManie // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:53 pm

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• 102 ITM » Archivo » Por fin la Wii puede reproducir películas DVD (aunque no gracias a Nintendo) // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:59 pm

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• 103 Team-Gx » libdi and the DVDX installer // Aug 13, 2008 at 1:07 pm

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• 104 Ya se pueden leer DVDR en Wii sin chipear - Manualeitor // Aug 13, 2008 at 1:42 pm

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• 105 Watch DVD's on the Wii, thanks to homebrew - Digital Existence Network // Aug 13, 2008 at 1:45 pm

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• 106 joreag // Aug 13, 2008 at 1:47 pm

  Seems to be working now, thank you, whomever fixed it.

• 107 Homebrew - libdi and the DVDX installer released - Seite 2 - Wiihack.de // Aug 13, 2008 at 1:50 pm

  [...] die DVDs zuzugreifen (glaub ich zumindest). Dann gibt es eine spezielle Version von mplayer (gibts hier), mit der kannst du dann die DVDs [...]

• 108 Consolas: El homebrew de Wii sin chip es una realidad - Ecetia // Aug 13, 2008 at 1:59 pm

  [...] obtener todo lo necesario para convertir vuestra consola en un nuevo reproductor de DVD desde aquí. Después del salto tenéis la traducción que realizó WiiVariant en los foros de El Otro [...]

• 109 Wii DVD playback without modchip! | www.hansrune.org - News for the average geek, gamer and gadget freak // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:03 pm

  [...] guys over at HackMii have come up with a way to use your Wii as a DVD-player without the need for a hardware mod! Just [...]

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• 111 CrunchGear » Archive » DVD playback on the Wii // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:11 pm

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• 112 Ya se pueden leer DVDR en la Wii sin modificar | BlogDelWeb // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:22 pm

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• 113 Oaphs // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:24 pm

  Great, great, GREAT!
  It’s a fantastic new!
  So, if I had a non-compatible modchip, what would happen if I selected normal installation?

• 114 chungy // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:34 pm

  I should note that I’m using a United States Wii (NTSC of course), and I still haven’t been able to play DVDs (tried Star Wars IV both original and re-edited, Superman III (yeah seriously), Spaceballs, Star Trek VI)… waiting about two minutes for any of them. MPlayer stops responding to any input from the Wii remote or GCN controller, although the Power button shuts off the Wii immediately (leads me to believe it’s not entirely frozen, otherwise I’d have to old it down longer).

• 115 Syliss // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:41 pm

  Everytime i try to install this, my wii freezes, what should i do?

• 116 El homebrew de Wii sin chip es una realidad « fanboyopolis // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:54 pm

  [...] obtener todo lo necesario para convertir tu consola en un nuevo reproductor de DVD desde aquí. Después del salto tienes la traducción que realizó WiiVariant en los foros de El Otro Lado. En [...]

• 117 yellowstar // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:55 pm

  mighti & basky727:
  You need to install the Homebrew Channel. Also, you’ll need The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess. If you don’t have it already, you can either rent, borrow, or buy it. See http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Setting_up_your_Wii_for_Homebrew

• 118 marcan // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:17 pm

  Wow, this is going to be a long one.

  To everyone who is new to Wii Homebrew: I’ve updated the post above, please read over the beginning to get a grasp on the basics and links to more information

  To uninstall PatchMii, use AnyTitle Deleter and remove title 0000001-000000fe. We’ll include a proper uninstaller in a future release - we didn’t want to have to make you wait longer, since we’re already kind of late with the library.

  To build libdi, you need the Git branch of libogc that we maintain. Fetch the repository from git://hackmii.com/home/ogcgit/libogc and run make and make install. If you’re under Windows, you can use msysgit.

  To everone having problems: remember, this is nowhere near a final release and some troubles are expected.

  Regarding protected DVDs: mplayer needs a few seconds (sometimes minutes) to crack the CSS keys for protected titles. Give it some time and see if it starts working. We’ll try to optimize this in the future, especially if we figure out the CSS commands for the drive.

  Regarding PAL: quite a few of the people who made this are on PAL. We do care about PAL, it’s just that I think it turns out that at least two of us PALers are on 480p anyway, and sometimes we forget to extensively test the normal PAL modes.

  Server’s being glitchly lately. If the links don’t work, please try again in a few minutes or an hour or two.

  Both the DVDX channel-stub and PatchMii are only used by homebrew and have no effect on the normal Wii software. They are also not affected by firmware updates (although they could presumably be rendered useless if Nintendo wanted, but they won’t conflict with the updates themselves).

  You can uninstall DVDX from the DVDX installer. If you have it installed, an Uninstall option will pop up next time you run it.

  If you pick the wrong installation type (normal with incompatible modchip, or patchmii with no modchip) then DVD playback just won’t work - no harm done. You can reinstall with the right type to fix it.

• 119 yellowstar // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:21 pm

  Note that my previous comment applies to those of you whom need help with installing this. That is, for those of you that don’t have HBC,(Homebrew Channel) installed.(Several more people commented by the time I pressed submit)

• 120 blackprince97 // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:39 pm

  which play do we press? ‘Play DVD’ or ‘Play DVD (libdvdnav)’?

• 121 Biblioteca para leitura de DVDs em consoles Wii sem drivechip - NewsInside // Aug 13, 2008 at 3:44 pm

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• 122 Play DVDs on the Wii using new homebrew | MostReviews.com // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:01 pm

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• 123 Wii DVD Playback « Em Wyllie // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:05 pm

  [...] Once you’ve loaded up the Wiibrew channel, head to this website and download the mplayer and libdi files. Copy them to the SD Card. The root of the SD Card should [...]

• 124 blackprince97 // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:06 pm

  I’m getting nothing. No matter what the DVD, commercial or otherwise, I’m not getting any DVD playback. When I click it, the disc drive spins a little and then nothing. The program just freezes. I’ve left it on for half an hour now and still nothing.
  Maybe I’m doing something wrong. Does the DVDX install itself the first time you run the program? And what is this installer.dol thing? I don’t have that in the folder. All I’ve got is a boot.dol, do i need to rename it?

• 125 blackprince97 // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:11 pm

  Okay never mind. I figured out the problem. Sorry but I don’t know how to edit comments

• 126 DVDX Homebrew Hack Brings Full Wii DVD Playback, Doesn’t Require Modchip [ | official tech blog // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:12 pm

  [...] in your house that can play DVDs. Previous DVD hacks required a modded console, but now you can grab a .DOL file and install a DVD-capable version of mplayer without opening the hood. It should also play video [...]

• 127 blackprince97 // Aug 13, 2008 at 4:31 pm

  Okay, never mind the never mind. I still don’t get it. I cant get this to work at all. I tried using that installer.dol thing but i never get any onscreen instructions. Couldn’t you guys just post some detailed instructions on how this is supposed to work for the n00bs and for those of us having problems?

• 128 blackprince97 // Aug 13, 2008 at 5:58 pm

  what do we do with the installer.dol file? Do we need some extra program to install it? I’ve tried opening it from within MPlayer but it always crashes the program and it doesn’t appear in the homebrew channel menu.

• 129 jitters333 // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:19 pm

  I have a Wiikey With a 3,2U, I’ve run the patch with Patchmii and without it, no matter what i do it just wont play the dvds =/

• 130 jitters333 // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:25 pm

  Huh ran the patch once more just for kicks, and it said the same thing.. but now the dvds run… hmm

• 131 acid06 // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:30 pm

  Unfortunately, I can’t seem to make this work.
  I tried both with and without PatchMii but MPlayer just freezes when I select “Play DVD”.

  I actually left it there for 4 hours and was still frozen, so it’s definitely not an issue with the key cracking.

  I have a modchip installed. I don’t know exactly which one it is, but I suspect it’s a D2CKey clone called D2CPro (*not* D2Pro).

  Any help would be appreciated.

  And thanks to the Hackmii crew for providing such nice tools for us.

• 132 bottmint // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:33 pm

  i have a quick question. if we start up a dvd and decide that we dont want to watch it how do we start a new one without having to return to the HBC? also ive tried spiderman 3 and bruce almighty (both commercial on a d2c wii with a d2ckey NTSC-U) and they work like they were popped into a dvd player with minimal stutters

• 133 Big Bang Theory // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:45 pm

  I put the DVDX files into an app folder with the meta, icon and the .dol files and included it in an update to my Wiibrew SD Installer. In other words for people new to Wiibrew go here and download this.

• 134 Unicron // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:57 pm

  I’m seeing that PAL people hva some troubles with reading DVDs, and that downloading later worked. Are you sure your DL wasn’t borked?

  Anyways, I’m a PAL user(Norway, Europe) and I havent experienced any problems other than a bit choppy video every now and then. Tested with retail/protected(Transformers, SWIII, Kill Buljo(Norwegian movie, really good if you understand norwegian language and north-norwegian humor. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0913401/plotsummary )), and copy/unprotected(only Kill Buljo for now…)

  It’s a good, genuine release which makes the Wii scene go forward. Thanks, Twiizer&friends

• 135 LionHeart // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:02 pm

  @ chungy:

  Did you run “installer.dol” in the “libdi” folder? You need to run that first, then you can play DVDs in mplayer.

• 136 vgmoose // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:18 pm

  Awesome! It’s working perfectly for me!

  My only concern is with the volume of the DVDs. It’s not your fault, DVDs just tend to be quieter, but it’s a real pain for me because we don’t happen to have a remote on the TV the Wii is attached to.

  I noticed that there is a volume control in the menu, but it only goes to 100.00 which isn’t enough… Is it possible to make it go louder?

  Another thing is about .mp3 files. I understand that they were loaded from an SD card, but it seemed really buggy when I tried to play them. Will there be full support for mp3?

  BTW, I LOVE YOU GUYS, YOU MADE MY Wii EPIC!!!

  >_> How did that get in there?

• 137 Buchan // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:27 pm

  I don’t usually post, as a lot of this stuff is well over my head at the moment (I’m quietly learning though ). But I’ve just got to say….. YOU GUYS ARE F’ING AMAZING!!!

  This works like a charm for me. I’ve watched a couple of films on dvd (one legit, one copy), and a few off SD card in different formats (avi, wmv, divx), and I have not had a single problem. No “choppiness” or anything, immediate playback, and the navigation etc works perfectly. I’m using system v3.3 on an un-modded PAL console btw.

  I just wanted to say thank you so much for this, and everything else I’ve made use of …. oh, and for everything I’m learning from the site. It’s all greatly appreciated.

• 138 The Wii finally gets DVD playback — no thanks to Nintendo | ah! // Aug 13, 2008 at 10:18 pm

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• 142 Dingchow // Aug 13, 2008 at 11:33 pm

  Was in the news….kinda
  http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/videos/27787/The_Daily_Feed_With_Layla_Kayleigh_81308.html

• 143 MANICX100 // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:34 am

  I want to install this but I have a wii-key modded wii.

  Do I have to download the patchmii_core.dol or is there an option for patchmii in the installer.dol for the libary. Because I’m getting different responses from different people.

• 144 blackprince97 // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:45 am

  I finally got it up and running. It works great. I’ve had perfect playback with a majority of my commercial DVDs with the exception of the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I’ve tried Batman Begins, Transformers, Rush Hour 2 and no problems. But I also can’t play any homemade DVDs.

• 145 Vedere i dvd con la Wii? finalmente si puo’ | wiili blog // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:54 am

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• 146 Unofficial DVD playback for the Wii now available - SlashGear // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:02 am

  [...] really cool thing is your Wii doesn’t even have to be modded for this to work. The install file will run [...]

• 147 chungy // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:19 am

  @LionHeart:

  Yes, I did. No results.

• 148 DVD auf dem Wii - es geht!!! | // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:50 am

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• 149 bAiLLi // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:58 am

  First things first: This is a great piece of software! Thanks to all involved.

  I can confirm that there seems to be problem open some DVDs.
  For example I have made some tests with the Lord of the Rings Triology (Extended Edtion):
  - The Two Towers Disc 1 will not play. MPlayer freezes after pressing “Play DVD” as have already discribed others. (I tried both 576i and 480i)
  - The Two Towers Disc 2 will play, but if I try to switch audio streams the the audio is completely garbled and if I keep switching audio will completely disappear (even the audio only cotains “Back”)
  - The Return of the King Disc 1 plays fine. I watched the whole disc. Sometimes you notices that the framerate drops. Usually in places with global motion.
  - The Return of the King Disc 2 starts fine too. I only watched the first five minutes.

• 150 bAiLLi // Aug 14, 2008 at 2:01 am

  (This place really needs an editing function:) All discs are of course pressed originals (German R2) and in really good shape (meaning almost no scratches). The console is of course PAL, too.

• 151 HCK // Aug 14, 2008 at 3:13 am

  Lil bug report:

  1.Audio playback disables the menu, so I need to shut down my wii when I want to listen to music (AAC+, .aac format)

  2.Menu does change layout depending on video resolution (a mobile phone resolution videos brings up a huge menu)

  3.Audio sync screws up if menu is enabled during DVD playback

  I don’ t want to annoy you, it’ s an awesome relase, this is just meant to help you in further bugfixes.

  Keep it up!

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• 153 Homebrew - Release - Waninkoko DVD Dumper 1.2 - Seite 3 - Wiihack.de // Aug 14, 2008 at 4:45 am

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• 154 Nintendo Wii ile Artık DVD Film İzleyebileceksiniz | Bilgisayar-Destek // Aug 14, 2008 at 4:49 am

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• 155 Matteh // Aug 14, 2008 at 4:53 am

  Ok first of all let me congratulate on all the great work that everyone has done! The HBC is truly fantastic now.

  Ok, so I am having a little difficulty with this. I have a chipped wii(wiikey 1.9s) and running 3.2PAL. I am unsure on what to do with the patchmii_core.dol thing. Where does it go and do I have to make ot start?

  Thxn in advance if you can help me out.

• 156 bugger // Aug 14, 2008 at 5:13 am

  maaaan
  i waited so long for this release..
  me and my friend watch alot of dvds and hes always pissed cuz we have to wtach it on the pc, cuz i dont have a dvd player. BUT it doesnt work for me either…just freezes and thats it.
  D-D-D-D-DAAAAMN!

• 157 HCK // Aug 14, 2008 at 6:02 am

  @bugger

  If you could provide a detailed description of what you have done and tell something ’bout your Wii (are you using a modified IOS, a modchip?)

  When does your wii freeze?

• 158 Daverball // Aug 14, 2008 at 6:18 am

  For everybody who doesn’t get this thing to work:

  You have to run the installer.dol first, otherwise it won’t be possible to play DVDs, to run the installer.dol I’d rename it to boot.dol and just simply replace the boot.dol of any given application on the SD Card with boot.dol of the DVD installation and then run the application with the Homebrew Channel, since you only need to run it once, you can put the normal boot.dol of the application back there afterwards.

  Hope i could provide an easy to understand way of installing the dvd feature, since it might have been a bit naïve to think, that everybody would get, how to easily run the installer.dol with their Homebrew Channels.

• 159 MANICX100 // Aug 14, 2008 at 7:15 am

  What I meant by my previous comment was:

  I have a wii-key modded wii.

  Do I first have to download and run the patchmii_core.dol

  or do I just have to load up the libdi installer and choose the patchmii option???

  I’ve been getting different responses from different sites.

  Also if I do have to run the patchmii_core.dol do I use the hb channel or twilight hack or either???

  So what do I do??

• 160 Oaphs // Aug 14, 2008 at 7:19 am

  It doesn’t work. I’ve a modded PAL Wii, with IOS36 and System Menu 3.3E. The normal installation go fine, but when i try to play a dvd the device stop after a few of seconds. Then, pressing the power button the wii shut down immediately.
  Proof ripped dvds and original dvixs.

• 161 schmidex // Aug 14, 2008 at 9:18 am

  Will your team continue to develop the mplayer port. Or is this just a small poc?
  I really like the player and would really appreciate further development.

• 162 marcan // Aug 14, 2008 at 9:38 am

  @oaphs, MANICX
  If you have a modchip, download and run patchmii_core, then download and run the installer and pick the patchmii option.

  Oaphs, read. It tells you right there on the screen that if you have a modchip (unless it’s DVD-compatible, and yours probably isn’t) you need to use PatchMii.

  To run files using the homebrew channel, rename them to boot.dol and just place them on the SD card in their own directory under apps

  e.g.: \apps\dvdins\boot.dol

  You do not need to use an existing application. meta.xml and icon.png are optional. If they aren’t they, it’ll just default to showing the file path as a name and no icon.

• 163 blackprince97 // Aug 14, 2008 at 11:40 am

  Okay I just noticed that the Wii’s cooling fan isn’t on when you use this. This could cause potential overheating problems. Is it possible to enable the fan during playback? I watched a two hour movie and it didn’t get too hot but it could if it was a warmer day or something.

• 164 DrFred // Aug 14, 2008 at 11:55 am

  Is there any chance in the future this will support playing DVD-Video from other regions?

  I have a region 2 console and could not get a region 1 DVD to load.

  Great app all the same.

• 165 acid06 // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:12 pm

  Sorry for reposting this but no one answered my previous comment and I really wanted to play DVDs on my Wii.

  I tried both with and without PatchMii but MPlayer just freezes when I select “Play DVD” (of course, I ran PatchMii and it indicated everything was patched successfully).

  I actually left the DVD in there for 4 hours and was still frozen, so it’s definitely not an issue with the key cracking.

  I tried with one pressed DVD and one DVD I recorded myself and both didn’t work (the same media works fine for game backups).

  I have a modchip installed. I don’t know exactly which one it is, but I suspect it’s a D2CKey clone called D2CPro (*not* D2Pro).

  Any help would be appreciated.

• 166 jonjosh // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:39 pm

  So you have to have the Twilight Princess hack and use the libdi through homebrew channel?

  Can you just use it without a homebrew channel?

• 167 whodares // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:39 pm

  Just out of curiosity, why does there need to be a hidden channel? what does it do differently that couldn’t be supported in a standard library?

• 168 Nash79 // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:56 pm

  I guess that this software doesnt really work with the pal version. I’ve been trying since yesterday with no luck. I have a D2CPro (D2CKEY clone) and 3.2E. But Im happy that some were able to use it :). (Ive been trying DVD backups).
  Anyone with the same problem ?

• 169 SavyGamer » DVD-Video Playback on the Wii // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  [...] here and grab the mplayer and libdi, follow the instructions, and you should be able to play DVD-Video [...]

• 170 Steve32 // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:05 pm

  —————–
  Download links:

  mplayer
  libdi

  If you have a modchip, you also need patchmii, in addition to the DVDX stub installer.
  patchmii_core

  Note that libdi is meant for developers, as it is embedded into applications that use it. End-users only need to run installer.dol.
  —————-

  Just something that causes confusion with me: what’s the difference between libdi and DVDX?

  As that text reads, “End-users should NOT be interested in libdi and only need to run installer.dol”. However, which installer.dol is referred to here? The one in the libdi download link that End-users shouldn’t be interested in?

  So, is the install.dol from the libdi package called the ‘DVDX stub installer’? Or am I missing a download link to the DVDX installer?

• 171 Play DVDs on your Wii, Betamax support coming soon | Sarcastic Gamer // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:10 pm

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• 172 kedest // Aug 14, 2008 at 2:21 pm

  do libdi and dvdx refer to the same thing?

• 173 marcan // Aug 14, 2008 at 3:01 pm

  @blackprince97:
  WTF. Are you sure? The fan doesn’t move much air. There’s zero reason for it to be off. Please double check.

  @jonjosh:
  You could use the Twilight Hack to boot the installer and then use it again to boot mplayer every time you want to watch a movie… but that’s a pain in the ass, and you still need to install the hidden DVDX channel which is just about as harmful (that is, harmless) as The Homebrew Channel.

  @whodares:
  The only way of enabling DVD mode without hacking IOS is by turning on a specific flag in the channel that marks it as “the DVD player channel”. There is no other way of invoking this functionality - for example, it can’t be done via discs, because it only enables DVD mode if it’s an actual installed channel with the flag.

  @Steve32:
  Hope it’s clearer now
  DVDX is included in libdi and is the only part of the libdi download that end-users care about. I added a separate download for DVDX alone.

  @kedest:
  libdi is the programming library that developers use to access the DVD mode. This is built into any program that uses it (like mplayer) so you only need it if you’re compiling a program that uses it. DVDX is a small hidden stub channel that libdi needs to function. It is a separate install and you need to run it to be able to use libdi.

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• 175 Matteh // Aug 14, 2008 at 4:11 pm

  Ok I am having a few problems with a few things.

  Firstly, I try to run the patchmii_core and it says initializing network…..then it goes back to the homebrew menu, is that right?

  Also, I try to run the installer with the patchmii_core but it says it isnt found, so I am like ‘wtf it must be wrong how I did it’. So yer, I am unsure what I am doing wrong.

  Help would be greatly appreciated! Thnx in advance!

• 176 ColorblindMonk // Aug 14, 2008 at 4:39 pm

  Sweet.

  I, to this day, am still wondering why Nintendo put DVD playback in their console to begin with. Heard news around the launch that Japan’ll get DVD playable Wiis, but that never happened. Everything nowadays has DVD playback. Don’t think anything would be different if it did.

  Good homebrew. Good homebrew.

• 177 blackprince97 // Aug 14, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  @marcan
  Yep no fan. Watched all of rush hour 2 and Advent Children with zero fan movement. It doesn’t seem like playback makes the Wii too hot but it could become an issue.

• 178 Rocketomy // Aug 14, 2008 at 4:56 pm

  Hey guys! GREAT WORK, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! I just hope my laser drive doesn’t burn out because of that myth. Anyways, I have a problem: Is there any way to access the menus on a dvd to set the subtitles and video preferences? I really need to find out how to do this so I can set the subtitles and see the bonus features!

  Thanks for reading and I hope to get some answers! ;D

• 179 Daverball // Aug 14, 2008 at 5:03 pm