Playing local Video content on the Wii U
A quick post on how I got the kids videos playing on the Wii U this morning. I’m running Ubuntu Studio on this computer, but the idea is the same even for Windows, Mac, or BSD. A simple HTTP Server, and mp4 video played through the Wii U Internet Browser.
From the Software Center in Ubuntu I found the server Qweborf, and installed it. Opening it up, I made a http directory on the Desktop, and chose it as the directory to serve. Then I dropped the files in there and started the server.
If you don’t know the IP of your computer look it up
$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr (your mac address) inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: (your inet6 address) Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5679305 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3703226 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4521950937 (4.5 GB) TX bytes:9325905863 (9.3 GB) Interrupt:17 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:203480 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:203480 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:23289411 (23.2 MB) TX bytes:23289411 (23.2 MB)
Mine is 192.168.1.5 so on the Wii U, I open the Internet Browser and type
http://192.168.1.5:8080
and it shows the files. Click to play. Now, I found that mp4 videos worked so far. Most of my stuff is MKV from Handbrake. Open a terminal.
$ sudo apt-get install libav-tools [sudo] password for user: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libav-tools 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 40 not upgraded. Need to get 3,304 kB of archives. After this operation, 9,396 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe libav-tools amd64 6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 [3,304 kB] Fetched 3,304 kB in 11s (281 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libav-tools. (Reading database ... 319257 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libav-tools_6%3a9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libav-tools (6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up libav-tools (6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ... $
And then it’s just
avconv -i movie.mkv -c copy movie.mp4
I found anything with AC3 audio didn’t play. So I converted it to AAC. It takes a bit of time to transcode the audio.
$ avconv -i movie.mkv -c:v copy -c:a libvo_aacenc movie.mp4
Flash videos to mp4?
$ avconv -i movie.flv -c copy movie.mp4
That’s pretty much far as I’ve got.
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