Mass Media Manager Hits the Wii March 9, 2007
For all of you out there itching to turn your Wii into a media center there’s a great new product coming that you might be interested in. Mass Media Manager allows you to convert and rip movies to an SD card for use on your Wii. The software compresses video and even lets you set a desired screen size, bitrate and aspect ratio, it can also rip DVDs strait to your memory card and compress them to fit the allotted space available.
There are also tools included for viewing and manipulating digital images and playing and ripping MP3s as well as Podcasts updated on your computer via RSS and game save files you can download off the net for use on various Wii games.
Of course if you don’t want to dish out the cash there is also the free solution. Red Kawa has an open source project that uses the Opera web browser to connect to your computer but this appears to be slow in development and from personal experience I can attest that it’s plagued with bugs!
If only this product could combine its functionality with that of the Red Kawa media center and let you connect to your computer through the web, then it might very well be the perfect solution. Either way, it still sounds like a nice product. I’m very interested in seeing how the converted movies look. I’m even more interested in knowing how this thing is actually playing videos as it appears it doesn’t use the Wii browser functionality.
The package includes a 1 GB SD card and a USB card reader.
Source:Max Console
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March 9th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
http://www.apple.com/appletv/
March 9th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
[...] Original post by shanoboy [...]
March 9th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Yeah, I don’t get this? So it just converts the files? How do we view them on the Wii?
March 9th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
My guess is it converts them to a given format to be loaded on the SD card then maybe the package comes with a disc that the wii sees as a game that can read and render the files off the SD card.
March 9th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Oh, and as for Zarox’s link to Apple TV, I think a sling box or an old modded xbox would make for a better and cheaper solution in taking files off your computer and ’slinging’ them to your tv and surround sound system.
March 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
My guess is that it uses the photo channel to view them, it just optimizes the file and rips movies.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
1 gig is way too small to even care, u could proboly get 3 movies on a 1 gig SD card, but the picture quality would be pure crap! ill just stick with my 80 gig ipod
March 10th, 2007 at 7:14 am
For a free solution with conversion of the media on the fly, directly from your PC, you should check Orb out: http://www.orb.com/wii/index.htm
You can even watch your YouTube favorites with that!!!
March 10th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Ya, there’s lots of better alternatives to this. Orb and Sling are good ones.
It’s rumored that Apple TV will feature web access for youtube etc. I don’t see how it couldn’t really.
But yes, for those that like to roll their own, there are cheaper methods.
March 10th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Orb is a great free alternative. I use it on almost a daliy basis.
March 11th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
yea, but most of of my movies must be converted to a format orb recognises, like mp4