As Eric suggested the answer may lie with RTSP as used by RED5 – I’ve downloaded a copy of RED5 and need to spend some time working out what Flash player it uses and how to call it. I’m hoping that their Flash player will run on Flash 7 – it’s a shame that the Wii has to have such an old version. I don’t know what their licence conditions for using their player would be either; I can’t see a problem with using it myself, but I doubt I’d be allowed to distribute it.

According to several people the answer should be found in using RTSP (like RED5). This protocol should not fill up the memory…

But i’m looking forward to see some tests of your product ;) keep me informed!

I need to sort out a Flash video player that can play long videos on the Wii. The problem I have at the moment is that it will play about 10-15 minutes of the video then stop. I think what it’s doing is attempting to download the whole video stream and keep it in memory, which obviously isn’t going to work – it needs to discard what it’s already played when there’s no room for new data.

I think part of the problem is that the Wii only has Flash 7 on it (due to some licencing issues with Adobe), so a lot of the newer cleverer players don’t work.

I’ll try to get a beta version out soon – it’ll have rough edges, but it should work well enough to try out (it’s working for me now, which is nice).

I have a Nintendo Wii for a while and since I don’t care for high def consoles (I have my PC for high def gaming anyways), I was thinking if I would be able to make it to a Media Center, in fact the console is quite strong enough to output 480p even 720p (if it was possible) with a relative ease, no need to give 600 bucks for something doing exactly the same (PS3). However I was disappointed to see that no web app or otherwise was able to transcode a 480p video in realtime. I mean the closer I could get with 24FPS streaming was PimpStreamer at 80×50 quality (horrendous) and it is something to wonder since google video or youtube transmit on way better resolutions without a hitch on Wii (the other solutions, Orb and stuff could not achieve more than 20FPS no matter what).

I’ll observe your work closely from now on, and I’ll pray to god to make some wiz with Peryl, so that -at last- Wii to become a serious streamer of LAN’s contents.

I’m looking forward to hearing more news from your project. I wish you all the lack (and the patience) of the world.

Steve.

PS: Is there any beta of the software available? If so I could happily become a beta tester.