Make movies for your Wii with your Mac

Nintendo and Apple seem to both ignite the same sort of passion in their customers, and I imagine that the Venn diagram that shows Apple users and Nintendo users has much overlap. Hence, I am sure many of you are trying to get movies from your Mac onto you Wii for your Wii viewing pleasure.

Riverfold Software has released Wii Transfer, a $9 app that will not only convert your movies into a Wii compatible format, but it will also move the movie file onto the SD Card of your choice (which must be connected to your Mac at the time). There is a 15 second screencast so you can see Wii Transfer in action on the Wii Transfer page.

If you're cheap (and judging from the comments we get whenever we post about some app a developer has the audacity to charge for, you are) MAKE has the skinny on how to create Wii compatible movies with a copy of Quicktime Pro (though if you are only looking to make Wii playable movies and you don't have a license for QT Pro, Wii Transfer is much more economical).

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Source: http://www.riverfold.com/software/wiitransfer/

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hodgers

Oops, forgot the link for the comment above:-
http://www.hodgers.com/blog/2006/12/wireless_home_broadcasting_mac.shtml

December 28 2006 at 8:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hodgers

In the absense of an SD card and loads of hard disk space, I've been experimenting with sending Flash video files over my home network to the Wii and have had some success.

December 28 2006 at 6:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James

Greg, what do you mean by your comment? What if you want to watch a video on your TV but don't have a DVD player connected that particular set? That's why people like me watch some video on their Wii.

December 17 2006 at 3:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MacGoog

What would be the purpose for doing this? You have made the movie so watch it on your Mac or a DVD player.

December 16 2006 at 9:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brian

Even very focused software like this takes time to build. Supporting Wii Transfer will make it possible for new features to be added.

December 16 2006 at 7:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Maddles

The settings lined to for QuickTime Pro are a bit too high, they'll probably make a file up to 5x larger. Try these if you have Pro, they're the ones I've been using for a week. And if you don't have Pro you can just wait for Major to add the functionality to ffmpegX. I emailed him with the specs below and he said he could do it

Video
- Motion JPEG B
- 24 FPS (actual number optional)
- Colour (also optional)
- Medium Quality (again optional but Medium is still pretty good and it keeps file sizes down)
- Deinterlaced (optional again but I recommended it)
- 480p is top quality (848x480 resolution)

Sound
- Linear PCM
- Stereo or mono
- 48.000kHz (optional but I got sound distortion otherwise)
- Normal quality
- 8 bit sample size
- Big Endian
- Unsigned