wii browser

[DragonWii]

just wondering if the wii opera browser accepts streamed music and video, and also scripts in javascript or cgi. Anyone know?

 

[NINTENDO64]

the opera browser will run flash 8 and java runtime but streaming is hard one they might use quicktime.

 

[DragonWii]

Well if its quicktime that would mean .mov streams. Im sure nintendo would have announced if quicktime was involved. maybe its nintendo's own streaming software working with opera. I wonder if we will be allowed to watch streams through windows media player in opera. Possibly like a plugin that we can install afterwards. i have a felling that if we want to see extra content we might have to puchase seperate plugins for the browser... just a speculation. :scared:

 

[DragonWii]

Hi all

Here is detail of the wii opera browser i found whilst browsing. quite usefull.. but damn they say they cant reveal most of stuff yet like video and audio streaming..

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/709/709705p1.html

http://www.cubed3.com/news/5329

 

[JVIPER82]

Well if its quicktime that would mean .mov streams. Im sure nintendo would have announced if quicktime was involved. maybe its nintendo's own streaming software working with opera. I wonder if we will be allowed to watch streams through windows media player in opera. Possibly like a plugin that we can install afterwards. i have a felling that if we want to see extra content we might have to puchase seperate plugins for the browser... just a speculation. :scared:

Use a computer. I hear they're good at these types of things...

 

[DragonWii]

:crazy: :shocked: wow your clever JVIPER82 how did you figure that one out.
Its good to have the nintendo wii as a good gaming console and at the same time what you would expect from a internet browser so lazy people like me can sit down and do everything on wii and not to leave the living room ... browsing internet or listening to music online on a big tv is way nicer than monitor.

 

[Kosh1and2]

Just downloaded Opera 9 for my P.C. to see how it runs etc. I love it, its seems to be faster than IE on my P.C. and I love the tab system on the top rather than opening a new window when you go to a link etc. I think it may even look a bit better than IE to. Think I might use it all the time.

 

[DragonWii]

I also have it on my computer but i think it would be great if we could watch stream videos and music on nintendo wii. i wonder if we could download mp3 files using wii and play them

 

[Riddled]

Firefox ftw.
I really hope the wii supports a USB keyboard... there's no way I'll be scrolling around with the cursor over a screen of characters typeing my URLs, that's riddiculas...

 

[MetroidZ]

yeh, firefox is the best. but opera is a very good, fast, reliable browser.

 

[DragonWii]

Some info on keyboard apparently you can use the GC keyboard on your wii. Doesnt it look too big.

http://www.wiikeyboard.com/

According to this trailer we should be able to play streamed sound and flash

http://www.wii.com/en_US/movies/internetchannel/

 

[NateTheGreat]

^:lol: I never knew something like that existed for Gamecube. :lol:

 

[DragonWii]

i Didnt even know they had built a keyboard for GC. Seems the wii keyboard could aslo be on its way then hopefully soon

http://www.wii.com/en_US/movies/internetchannel/

Im sure on that trailer it showed the nintendo site where we can download games or was that soemthing else

 

[NateTheGreat]

Thinking about it, Nintendo could allow users to download things like games, videos, etc. by giving users free or cheap online storage. Since Wii only has 512MB of storage, it wouldn't be possible to save any large files, so online storage would be nice, although I don't know if it would be slow playing a 100MB+ quicktime video.

 

[DragonWii]

If nintendo do that that would be awsome. possibly game trailes before we consider buying them. Even of they let us play demos before buying that would be nice.