Important: Can wii handle live video streams.

[MiiWantWii]

My college alma mater has a game this weekend that won't be televised nationally nor locally, but the official athletics website is offering a pay-per-view online live stream of the game. I have some stuff I could use to hook my laptop up to my LCD tv in the den but it would be much easier and nicer if I could just use my wii.

Does anyone know if the can handle a live video stream lasting a few hours? If so is there anything special I need to do?

Thanks in advance guys.

 

[Capt Elmer]

It can handle Youtube which is Flash based.

 

[TheCosmicFrog]

It can only handle Flash 7 at the moment. Chances are the broadcast will be in Flash 9

Sorry

 

[MiiWantWii]

Here are the sytem requirements from the site that is providing the pay-per-view. It seems to me that the wii should work. It makes no mention of a need for a mediaplayer, just flash. Another concern is whether a 3-4 hr broadcast will be to much for the wii to handle memory wise maybe. Take a look and tell me what you think.


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[D S]

You won't be able to, sorry. It requires IE, Wii uses Opera.

 

[MiiWantWii]

You won't be able to, sorry. It requires IE, Wii uses Opera.

Yeah I saw that but almost everything as far as streaming on the internet says it requires IE. It's almost like Microsoft pays people to say that. Yet, I've used various other browser apps and never had a problem when something said "be sure you're running the latest version of IE" or "requires IE v 4.390842048502 or higher?

I guess usually when something says that it means something compatible with the specs of IE, which opera is. So, I don't think that will be a problem. How bout yall?

 

[xyberviri]

I watched Epi 1 of Alf on my Wii yesterday i used one of my websites to stream the data from the web server and it was played back using flash, my wife was watching sailor moon on youtube via the wii with no issues

 

[D S]

The best thing he can do, is try it out