The Hickensian

11.01.08

Quickly add movies to Wii Transfer

wii transfer icon One of the things that finally swung it for me to get a Wii was the Mac App Wii Transfer. It’s not quite as slick as the Apple TV, but fits nicely with my fetish for using things for other things. The music application works really well, but movies need to be converted before they can be streamed, which can take a while.

Only recently did I have a poke around and realise that movies are converted to Flash Video (.flv) and stored in /Library/Caches/Wii Transfer/Converted Movies/ folder. Using a handy bookmarklet I can now save YouTube videos directly to this folder and have them immediately available in Wii Transfer.

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No.1

Stuart Maynard-Keene said 540 days ago:

I’ve been using Wii Transfer for a week or so now and think it’s brilliant for photos and music, I’m not convinced with movies yet. I’ve only tried two movies — one .avi file that Wii Trasfer didn’t convert correctly and a .flv file that hung when serving/sharing.

I emailed the developer and he was very responsive, however it may be something I’m doing wrong.

No.2

Matthew Pennell said 540 days ago:

Excellent, not come across this before. I think I’ll be having a play over the weekend — cheers, John!

No.3

Simon Kitson said 540 days ago:

Thanks for posting this Jon. I’ve been hankering for way to get files from Mac to Wii ever since I picked up the console. This looks spot on.

No.4

Brad Bice said 540 days ago:

Used this technique and it worked great! Thanks for the tip.

No.5

Manton Reece said 540 days ago:

Thanks Jon, glad to hear it is working out well for you. Movie streaming is the newest feature and honestly has the most room for improvement, so it is the area I’ve focused most of my attention on while working on the next version. The bookmarklet trick you mention for saving FLV files directly will continue to work, too.

Stuart, you weren’t doing anything wrong; I think you just hit a video codec that isn’t supported. I still have your follow-up screenshot and hope to have a better list of movie formats available soon.