Time for a Wii

Posted by andy

I got hold of a Wii this weekend, mainly because of Mariokart but also so I could faff around with its browser. The result is iPlayerlist for the Wii (thank you BBC). Again, its work in progress and consider it to be my programming play thing rather than a fully fledged service.

iPlayerlist on the wii

Its a shame the little Wii cant handle anything more than Flash 7, as its a bit blocky and clunky for video playback, worth a try though. Just point your Wii at http://iplayerlist.mibly.com.

Update I’ve put a PS3 user agent look up in there too. So PS3 users can have a play, a la ps3iplayer.com

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  1. Ed – April 14, 2008 @ 10:03 AM
    I will have a play this evening. When I've tried the iPlayer version it's really jerky and stops randomly. I also can't seem to get full screen which is annoying.
  2. Andy – April 14, 2008 @ 02:05 PM
    Yep the drawbacks of flash 7, no native fullscreen. Also the bit rate has to be really high because the encoder is rather ... old. Anyhow, more info over here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/04/bbc_iplayer_on_wii.html
  3. degsy – April 16, 2008 @ 07:29 PM
    The iPlayer on the Wii is exactly as expected, slow, clunky and a great proof of concept! Nintendo and Opera will now take note, and I expect an update forthwith... can you make that happen?
  4. Andy – April 17, 2008 @ 07:55 PM
    I'll have a word with Adobe. Its their fault I fear.