Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
I can't find the article I read when I fixed it, but Nintendo mention that channels 1 and 11 are good as they don't overlap with other channel. There's a bunch of other stuff from them on this page as well: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/onlineWirelessRouterTroubleshooting.jsp Thanks for that, the wifi on my wii now speeds along - can watch iPlayer no problem! Phil - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
Great to know it works well now. It's often the case that changing a setting or two will help many problems, saves buying extra hardware too. Out of interest, is there a feature on the Wii to connect up an external wifi aerial anywhere? I saw they had capability for the old gamecube controllers, nice touch that. Thanks for that, the wifi on my wii now speeds along - can watch iPlayer no problem!
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
Out of interest, is there a feature on the Wii to connect up an external wifi aerial anywhere? I saw they had capability for the old gamecube controllers, nice touch that. No, there's no way to connect an external aerial. The Wii also takes the Gamecube memory cartridges (it can't store Gamecube saved games on its internal memory), and is 100% backwards compatible (unless the GC game used some peripheral like the Gameboy Player). Cheers, Phil - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
You could use it on the PC and compare signal strength before/after relocating the access point, but yeh I overlooked the fact that moving the Wii wouldn't show up on a PC running it... Also, have you a xbox 360 nearby? The wireless controller antenna on it spews out loads of 2.4GHz everywhere and can damage a wifi connection, even when it's off but plugged in. On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Tom Hannen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But wouldn't you need Netstumbler for the Wii, if the problem is the Wii's Weedy Wifi chip?
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
That's most likely down to the signal strength of the relatively cheap wireless chip inside the Wii. The distance between the console and the wireless access point will really make a difference to how well the iPlayer streams. Chris On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great idea, finally got around to trying it out. I do seem to have an issue with the video streaming - on the Wii it keeps stopping and starting, while watching the same programme on my MacBook Pro works fine without any stuttering at all.. the two devices share the same Wifi connection, so not sure what the difference is? Cheers, Mario. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the iPlayer on the Wii quite a lot recently and felt the interface could be improved to make navigation easier on the Wii's low resolution. Because of this, I've created an alternative interface that integrates better with the Wii UI and hopefully improves usability. To use it just point your Wii browser at: http://defaced.co.uk/wiiplayer/ More information and screenshots can be found here: http://defaced.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/28/wiiplayer-the-better-way-to-view-the-bbc-iplayer/ There are still a few rough edges here and there but I think it works well overall. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Chris
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
I also had a lot of success in getting my Wii to be reliable by playing around with which wireless channel was being used. It sounded unlikely to me but seems to have worked. There's a load of pages out on the web about tweaking the settings to get them to work nicely. --billy On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Chris Johnson wrote: That's most likely down to the signal strength of the relatively cheap wireless chip inside the Wii. The distance between the console and the wireless access point will really make a difference to how well the iPlayer streams. Chris On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great idea, finally got around to trying it out. I do seem to have an issue with the video streaming - on the Wii it keeps stopping and starting, while watching the same programme on my MacBook Pro works fine without any stuttering at all.. the two devices share the same Wifi connection, so not sure what the difference is? Cheers, Mario. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the iPlayer on the Wii quite a lot recently and felt the interface could be improved to make navigation easier on the Wii's low resolution. Because of this, I've created an alternative interface that integrates better with the Wii UI and hopefully improves usability. To use it just point your Wii browser at: http://defaced.co.uk/wiiplayer/ More information and screenshots can be found here: http://defaced.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/28/wiiplayer-the-better-way-to-view-the-bbc-iplayer/ There are still a few rough edges here and there but I think it works well overall. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Chris - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
Billy Abbott wrote: I also had a lot of success in getting my Wii to be reliable by playing around with which wireless channel was being used. It sounded unlikely to me but seems to have worked. There's a load of pages out on the web about tweaking the settings to get them to work nicely. Any pointers? Phil - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
I've seen that changing the channel to a few down the line helps, so if it's on 1 or 3, try 6 or 9/vice versa. If you want to try this also you can download NetStumbler [1] and look at the graph, then you can change your settings and compare results in different parts of your house based on signal strength. There's also a sound you can activate so you don't have to be near your PC to see if the strength has increased or not. If you need to know how to set that up give me a shout. Other tips are to disable encryption (not really recommended), that uses overhead... rotate the Wii so the antenna changes orientation, that sort of thing I guess. [1] - NetStumbler - http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/ Any pointers?
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But wouldn't you need Netstumbler for the Wii, if the problem is the Wii's Weedy Wifi chip? Tom On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen that changing the channel to a few down the line helps, so if it's on 1 or 3, try 6 or 9/vice versa. If you want to try this also you can download NetStumbler [1] and look at the graph, then you can change your settings and compare results in different parts of your house based on signal strength. There's also a sound you can activate so you don't have to be near your PC to see if the strength has increased or not. If you need to know how to set that up give me a shout. Other tips are to disable encryption (not really recommended), that uses overhead... rotate the Wii so the antenna changes orientation, that sort of thing I guess. [1] - NetStumbler - http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/ Any pointers? - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Phil Wilson wrote: Billy Abbott wrote: I also had a lot of success in getting my Wii to be reliable by playing around with which wireless channel was being used. It sounded unlikely to me but seems to have worked. There's a load of pages out on the web about tweaking the settings to get them to work nicely. Any pointers? I can't find the article I read when I fixed it, but Nintendo mention that channels 1 and 11 are good as they don't overlap with other channel. There's a bunch of other stuff from them on this page as well: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/onlineWirelessRouterTroubleshooting.jsp --billy - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
Possibly worth mentioning that the reason why iPlayer (and RadioPlayer) are not great on other platforms is that both product infrastructures currently force us to produce static pages rather than sensibly database-derived products. iPlayer v2.0 is less than a month away; the backend redesign means dynamically-generated niceness for Wii, iPhone, and other platforms will be much easier. J On 30 May 2008, at 10:20, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have a Wii so can't test, but great seeing this stuff happen, when platforms grow around 'open' content. (Not starting an open content thread here, you know what I mean) - I have a 360, and I wonder how difficult it would be to stream to that. It supports UPnP servers, so you'd need a PC with a server app and transcoder, not as efficient as the Wii. If they opened a web browser up on it, then that would be something. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that is awesome! On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the iPlayer on the Wii quite a lot recently and felt the interface could be improved to make navigation easier on the Wii's low resolution. Because of this, I've created an alternative interface that integrates better with the Wii UI and hopefully improves usability. To use it just point your Wii browser at: http://defaced.co.uk/wiiplayer/ More information and screenshots can be found here: http://defaced.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/28/wiiplayer-the-better-way-to-view-the-bbc-iplayer/ There are still a few rough edges here and there but I think it works well overall. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Chris - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html . Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
Now that is awesome! On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the iPlayer on the Wii quite a lot recently and felt the interface could be improved to make navigation easier on the Wii's low resolution. Because of this, I've created an alternative interface that integrates better with the Wii UI and hopefully improves usability. To use it just point your Wii browser at: http://defaced.co.uk/wiiplayer/ More information and screenshots can be found here: http://defaced.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/28/wiiplayer-the-better-way-to-view-the-bbc-iplayer/ There are still a few rough edges here and there but I think it works well overall. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Chris - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii
Thanks for the feedback. With regards to your suggestions: 1) This is something I'm working on. Unfortunately to find out which programs are not available I'd have to query them all individually, which is something I'd rather not do. I was planning though to cache the request when the user finds something unavailable, then automatically marking it as such on the program list afterwards. Example: You would click a program on the list, find it wasn't available and from then on that would be automatically reflected in the program list for everyone else. 2) Clicking on the WiiPlayer logo on the top left should take you back to the main menu. Thanks, Chris On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's really rather good - looks great and the interface works rather well. Two suggestions though: 1) Letting people know from the program lists if the program is available for the wii iplayer or not. I clicked through loads of programs before I found one that actually worked - it'd be good to know that from the program list page before you click through. 2) There's no way of navigating straight back to the main page from each of the program list pages that I saw - I clicked your back arrow until I went back through all the list pages and then to the front page. It'd be good to have a 'jump to home page' link somewhere. Other than those two minor niggles, it seems rather good. I'll keep testing it because it makes using the iplayer quite nice on my wii now. --billy On Thu, 29 May 2008, Chris Johnson wrote: I've been using the iPlayer on the Wii quite a lot recently and felt the interface could be improved to make navigation easier on the Wii's low resolution. Because of this, I've created an alternative interface that integrates better with the Wii UI and hopefully improves usability. To use it just point your Wii browser at: http://defaced.co.uk/wiiplayer/ More information and screenshots can be found here: http://defaced.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/05/28/wiiplayer-the-better-way-to-view-the-bbc-iplayer/ There are still a few rough edges here and there but I think it works well overall. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Chris - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
