A new build is out for MPlayerWii, one of our favorite media players to come out from the Wiibrew community. In case you missed the previous release, this Wii homebrew program is a native port of MPlayer and is capable of playing a number of audio and video formats. Lots of new features in this update, so check out the full details after the "read more" link below.

Download: MPlayerWii v0.03

Okay, so maybe the wait for multi-capable video playback on your Wii is taking a lot longer than you could take. Luckily the homebrew community around the Nintendo Wii has enough projects going around to provide enough of a selection for homebrew users out there. For media players, we've seen DragonMedia Player and GeeXboX, but did you know there's something out there for video buffs who don't want to go through Linux? Take for instance, rOn's MPlayerWii.

Download: MPlayerWii v0.02

It might be in its early stages, but you can't deny that the direction the app wants the Wii to follow is certainly a good one. Christophe Thibault is attempting to port MPlayer to the Wii, calling it MPlayerWii v0.01 in the process. To find out more, head on over to the full article.

Download: MPlayerWii v0.01

(And once again we welcome the dawning of a new era... er, QuickPeek issue!)

Game launches, release updates, 10-year plans, hacks, attacks, crackdowns, bomb disposal robots, inter-company business drama, insanely early April Fools' pranks, console-moving games and... magic regenerating powder? All that and more in QuickPeek 40! Let's get it on!

QuickJump QuickPeek has already reached more than half a year old. We've had thirty three issues, not including the special editions that cropped up from time to time. Here's the latest, and probably the greatest - it's our token of appreciation from us to all of you, it's Valentine's after all. Judging from the title alone, you probably know what to expect: every single Comment of the Week, all compiled and neatly packed in one huge compendium! Ever wondered who won the first ever Comment of the Week? You'll be very much surprised indeed...

With the constant updates that the WiiCR Team churns out, their Wii app WiiCR is becoming more and more like a daily vitamin that users crave and look forward to getting at the start of the day. After releasing v0.3.1.4a and 0.3.1.4b in just a span of one day, it's either the team has a lot of time in their hands, or they just work really really fast.

So anyhoo, if this is your first time to encounter this app, it's basically a media player solution for the Wii and acts as a streaming media server. It's capable of transcoding nearly any video file to a suitable flv for an embedded flash player and allows browsing of the remote filesystem to view: videos (avi/xvid/divx/mpeg/wmv/etc), text files, jpg's and play mp3s. With that out of the way, let's get to the much-awaited...

Changelog:

• Using VPB's newly updated video player.
• all themes using icons1 vidplay/ vidiframe again to support new player (old tpl's backed up).
• WiipaperMV 0.6 included
• WiinVi 0.5-r3 included

And as usual, we would recommend you check out the all-important readme on this one, or better yet, head on to the WiiCR Team's Wiki page (which you can access via the read link below) to know more about this nifty app.

Download: [WiiCR 0.3.1.6]

Frankly, not so many Wii users were impressed when Red Kawa released Wii Video 9. It is actually a video formatting program that only supports Motion JPEG Quicktime movies (.mov). Though grateful for the release, people still reasoned that the options are still limitless.  Now, we've come across another program that will, if use with Wii Video 9, allow users to finally watch DVD movies on Wii.

VirtualDub is a free program and can be downloaded via the Read link below. Before proceeding, make sure that your chosen movie is already stored in the hard drive in your PC. The file should be in either one of these formats: DivX, AVI, MPG or MOV. This is where VirtualDub comes in. After conversion, use Red Kawa's application to once more convert the files.

After those steps, you will now need an SD card. Take note that the converted file will not be compressed so be sure to get one with a large capacity. You can purchase 2GB SD cards on various retail markets for more or less US$ 50. Transfer your file to the SD card and then insert it to the Wii.

Proceed then to Photo Channel and choose Watch Video. That should do the trick.

The team behind the WiiCR has just released version 2.6b. WiiCR is a media player solution for the Wii which also functions as a streaming media server. It is also capable of transcoding nearly any video file to a suitable flv format for an embedded flash player, and also supports browsing the remote file system to view videos (avi/xvid/divx/mpeg/wmv/etc), text files, JPG and play mp3s. WiiCR v2.6b, which runs on the PC not the Wii, features a resized video player.

The WiiCr download file does not a have a readme file, but everything you need to know about it is available over at the WiiBrew Wiki. If you are new to WiiCR, we suggest you start from there by clicking on the link below.

Download: [WiiCR v2.6b]

In an interview at Davis Freeberg's Digital Connection, DivX CEO Jordan Greenhall talked about the progress of DivX as a company, its history, and what it's plans for the future are. Since we're a gaming blog we'll focus on the pieces of information pertaining to the relationship Between DivX and the next-generation consoles.

This bit from the interview actually follows the part where Greenhall got questioned about the Wii, and the DivX platform making its way to the Nintendo baby. We're posting this first, just so that all the consoles get some coverage, and more importantly, so that you get a decent picture of the situation that DivX is in when it comes to the consoles.

As far as the console strategy goes do you think that if Microsoft were to license DivX for the Xbox 360 that Sony would be under a lot of pressure to license the codec as well or do you see an opportunity where Microsoft could differentiate themselves there?

The pressure would certainly be on and then it’s a matter of the politics of each organization. I would argue that on a pure market competitive basis, if Microsoft stepped up and put DivX on the Xbox, they would have a significant competitive advantage and the onus would be on to reduce that advantage by licensing DivX as well, but that doesn’t imply however the Sony would have the forethought to do it.

Here's the thing, during the "ooh-this-is-hot" days of P2P, a lot of people's so-precious-it-is-best-viewed-in-private videos were in DivX format. Now if you've still got that huge "collection" with you and you somehow want it viewable using you're next gen console, you'd be wishing that your Wii, PS3 or your Xbox 360 could run those files right?

Come on, as the song goes, people who use the Internet for self-gratification is in the thousands, and a lot of those people play with their consoles, don't tell me you do not see the monetary opportunity there. So what has DivX been doing about this?

Now that you know the issue, here's the rest of what Greenhall said about DivX and consoles.

Get the rest of the article after the Jump!

Using the Photo Channel, the Wii can play movies in in MJPEG format, but sadly it can't read DivX, XviD, or MPG movies. You know, all those formats you use when you guys torrent stuff (although .MKV and.OGM seems quite hot now-a-days). No need to be disappointed though, there is a simple conversion process you undertake so that you can play videos for your wii.

Wii Video 9 is just like PSP Video 9, where you select movies and click on convert to get the job done. The guys at Siliconera report that using the tool they were able to convert .MOV and DivX movies with ease.

Here be a demo of some of the converted movies.

Keep in mind though, that since the vids are converted to MJPEG, the size of the the video files will increase. You can get to Wii Video 9 by using the read-link that we've got below. If in case there's a few troubles with the link they've got, you can use our download-link instead.

Download [Wii Video 9]