Your Wii, although Nintendo won't tell you this, is pretty cool considering how cheap they are now, in fact, I have my Wii setup to play a whole bunch of files.
The most widely used video format seems to be .avi files, and I have loads of these on my hard drive. I was using my DivX Dvd player, and burning six or so films at a time to a DVD-R and watching them that way, but it turns out that you can watch them all through your Wii, so I'll just run through the process of getting your Wii to play your digital movies.
Step One:
The best app you can have for your Wii has got to be 'Homebrew Browser', available here:
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Homebrew_Browser
And this very simply allows you to download Homebrew applications to your Wii in the most pain free fashion. This app will only work if you have your Wii online, but it does make life a lot easier.
So go to the link above, download the zip file, and extract it to the 'apps' folder on your SD card.(If you don't have one, just create a new folder in the root, caled 'apps')
Step Two:
With your SD card in, turn your Wii on, open 'Homebrew Channel' and select 'Homebrew Browser', load it,and wait for it to kick in,(does take a while, don't worry if it seems to crash).
Step Three:
Once it's loaded choose 'Media' from the top bar, and scroll down till you find either.....Mplayer, or Geexbox, both apps do essentially the same thing, Geexbox has a slightly nicer GUI, but I prefer Mplayer. Install your choice, and it's done. (You can install both if you want to, gives you a chance to try them both out, check out formats supported by both player through the links at the bottom of the page)
Step Four:
Now you have a media player on your Wii, you just need to feed it something to play. If you read my earlier blog, chances are you have a hard drive with a couple of partitions, one formatted to WBFS, and another spare, this can be formatted to any file system you like, but I prefer NTFS. So stick a few .avi files on there, (or a lot) some .mp3 files, plug it into your Wii, load whichever media player you prefer from the Homebrew Channel, and off you go, happy viewing.
n.b If you don't have your Wii online, both media players are available to download:
Again, as Step One, download the .zip files, and extract the contents to the \apps folder
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