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Nintendo Wii power consumption

I’ve been wondering how much power my Wii takes when sitting there in half-standby mode, so I decided to plug in my power meter and find out.

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SimpleStreamer - Flash video streamer for Wii or PC

I recently got a Wii as a new toy, and wanted something good to stream videos to it.

I had a look round at some of the various “Media Center” options out there, but didn’t find anything I liked, so I’m writing my own.

So far I have a working system in Perl which allows you to browse the pre-set video dir(s) and presents a list of files + folders, when you select one it then uses a Flash streaming player, and either presents the file directly if it was a .flv video, otherwise it uses ffmpeg to transcode it to FLV on the fly and stream it to the Flash player.

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Listening to Shoutcast streams on a Wii

Just got my Wii tuned in to a Shoutcast radio stream using WiiHear.com - pretty neat :) Now if only it had tabbed browsing, so I could leave it in the background and do something else…. perhaps I need to make a little frameset with a thin frame containing a Flash streaming player, so you can load another page in the main frame.



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