Orb

[bobquasit]

I recently tried a program called Orb which allows you to view media (including video) from your computer on your TV, if the TV is net-enabled. Since the Wii has a net connection, I gave it a try. I've been hoping to watch Ultraviolet (the cool British TV vampire/detective show) with Teri; I have it on the computer, but not in a format that can be burned onto a video CD.

It worked, but unfortunately it was very laggy. Every ten seconds or so it froze and waited for buffering. So it's basically useless.

Comments

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

That sounds potentially very cool!

Could you tell if the lag was on the Wii side or the serving computer side? If it was Wii-side it's hopeless, but if it was server side, maybe I could get it to work if I hacked at it enough.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That's a tough question. How would I be able to tell?

As I understand it, Orb used my computer as a server for a video stream; there's no way my computer could have uploaded the entire video to Orb's server. I have a broadband cable connection, but my gut feeling is that the bottleneck was probably my computer's upload ability, rather than the Wii's download ability. On the other hand, I'm also not at all sure how fast the Wii wireless connection is. I'm sure it's not as fast as a wired cable download, but is it as fast as a cable upload?

I just don't know!

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

I'm not exactly sure, now that I think about it.

I'll have to try it out and see what I can figure out. I'll let you know if I can get it to work well on the Wii.