HACK YOUR WII; PLAY DVDS!

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The Wii is finally joining the last-generation! Hackers have figured out how to play DVDs on your Wiis. The hack works by installing a hidden channel on your Wii, and then you'll be able to watch DVDs with the MPlayer application, an open source media player. The no mess utility is easy to install and includes a media player that also makes nice with the video files stored on your SD card. The file will run on modded and unmodded systems. No word from Nintendo yet, but the company has come down pretty hard on pirates and hackers in the past...

It's not quite ready for prime time — the audio can sometimes get out of sync, although this is more a 'feature' of MPlayer than the fault of the hack. Worth checking out though, and it might just save Nintendo the bother of building something that nobody has really been crying out for but would be nice to have for free.
 
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