Movies in your Wii: TVersity

Let's imagine the following scenario:

• We have a Wii plugged to the TV in the dinning room,
• We have a PC somewhere else in our home, connected to the local area network, and with loads of movies and other multimedia content which we would like to watch it in the TV.
• It is a mess to move the PC to the dinning room

How could I watch those movies in the TV without moving the PC? Pretty easy!!! Through the Wii!!
We only need the stuff before, the internet channel on the wii, and TVersity.

Tversity is a software to make our life easier, configuring a streaming server and creating a web interface which we will be able to acces from the Wii.

So the only thing we've got to do is add the folders with multimedia content to the TVersity and we are instantly able to watch them: pics, music, and movies, from the Wii.
The media center looks like the following pic (read more...)


You got more screenshots here: http://tversity.com/screenshots/

How to install TVersity:
First: Download Tversity from http://tversity.com/download/.
Then, in order to play our xvid and divx videos we need to install the proper codecs. I personally use K-lite Mega Codec Pack (in free-codecs.com you can download it and many others)

Now we proceed to install the codec-pack, and once we have completed the installation, we install TVersity

Now open the control panel and add the folders you want to see from the Wii:

Once we have done this, it will take a while to scan the folder's content, but you already are able to watch some stuff in the Wii, through the internet channel you have to enter the IP address of the PC in which TVersity is installed. (it is the type of x.x.x.x plus the port: 41952 by default).
For example: 192.168.1.100:41952

If you have active the Windows Firewall it will be necessary to add an exeption with the mediacenter.exe, which is located in a default installation here: c:\Program Files\TVersity\Media Server

NB: make sure you have the service active.

So there it go! Now enjoy you multimedia in you TV through the Wii!