Okay, so it has arrived a bit later than expected, but it’s here. Team Twiizers has rolled out the initial release of the open-source Wii DVD access library, which allows users to read standard DVDs on a unmodified console with the homebrew-enabling Twilight Hack installed. From Twiizers member Erant:

Usage of this package is fairly simple. Run the installer.dol found in the package, follow the onscreen instructions, and you’re done.

Once you’ve done that, you can enjoy the splendor of mplayer. That what started out as a simple proof of concept has rapidly turned into a full-featured media player, under the nourishing hands of dhewg. The main aim of the mplayer project was to get DVDVideo going, but it also supports reading video files off the SD card. (Experimental).

In the event that you do have a modified Wii, it is necessary it install PatchMii, in addition to the DVDX stub installer.

Thanks to robertfisk for the tip!

Download libdi (DVDX) / MPlayer

libdi and the DVDX installer [HackMii]

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