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cerulean

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Streaming to the Nintendo Wii?
« on: September 01, 2010, 11:58:18 AM »
First, pulpTunes looks great. I had no trouble getting it up and running in a few minutes, and its web interface is a pleasure; way better than any other freeware/shareware/donationware software I've tried.

My question is, has anyone been able to stream music to their Wii? From the Wii's built-in browser I've been able to see my iTunes playlists, and can click the songs within, but they won't actually play. I simply get a message about updating Flash, which isn't going to happen because I'm stuck with whatever Nintendo/Opera have provided (likely some kind of stripped down Flash implementation).

I should say I'm using an older version of pulpTunes (1.2) because that's the latest my Mac will run. Has anyone else had any luck streaming to the Wii? Does this work with newer versions of pulpTunes, eg: 1.3? If not, are there any plans? Or is this an insurmountable problem due to the Wii's Flash support? For what it's worth, I couldn't get my PS3 to stream either... I just want to get some music to the TV :P
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Re: Streaming to the Nintendo Wii?
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2010, 12:19:57 PM »
Yeah that'd be nice. I can see how flash is a show stopper here. I'm working on HTML5 support to supersede Flash, but that's really a bleeding-edge technology, that I'm not sure the Wii's browser would support either... What happens when you try to actually download a song? does wii play it immediately? If that's the case that's something I could fallback into for all non-desktop browsers. Mind though that you need to explicitly enable the download permission to test this.

Cheers,
Alejandro
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cerulean

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Re: Streaming to the Nintendo Wii?
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2010, 09:02:08 PM »
Hi Alejandro- thanks for the super fast reply!

So I enabled the mp3 download feature (and it works just fine between computers), but I can't actually try it on the Wii. Not for any super complicated reason, but because there's no right-click on Opera on the Wii! At least, not that I can find. I checked in the Opera operations guide and searched google, but no luck. Stupid  :P

Is there anything else I could test for you?

Oh, and I wouldn't hold my breath for HTML5 on Opera on the Wii, but who knows.
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Re: Streaming to the Nintendo Wii?
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2010, 09:30:58 PM »
ok thanks for the feedback. It seems then there's nothing we can do at the moment. But now I'm a bit more informed about these browsers for when I try to support them in the future :)

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Re: Streaming to the Nintendo Wii?
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2010, 10:35:19 PM »
Ah okay, well thanks for trying all the same!
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