Re:WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
by gkhartman on Monday April 13, 2026 @09:09PM
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Honestly surprised it took this long. I guess it's less than ideal, since the wii doesn't support modern tv resolutions.
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Re:WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
by dmonitor on Monday April 13, 2026 @09:24PM
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The Wii supports 240p, though, which is very hard to replicate these days.
Re:WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
by Acrobatic_Road on Monday April 13, 2026 @09:29PM
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Or 480i if you want to watch classic anime on a CRT.
Re:WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
by NathanielK on Monday April 13, 2026 @09:51PM
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It can't really decode 480p/i very well.
The fact that it has component video out makes it a swiss army knife for everything else 240p/480i/480p.
Re:WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
by ssl-3 on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @12:36AM
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Indeed.
I watched a backup of a [480p24] DVD movie with a (hacked) Wii quite a long time ago, as a fallback after the PS3 I was using got tripped up on that film's Cinavia[1] watermarks.
The Wii worked OK-ish, but it was evident that it was barely keeping up with decoding the MPEG 2 video from the disc and putting it on the screen. Perhaps there is or was better software for that job, but there were some glitches and brief hangs.