WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii • Hacker News Board

gkhartman wrote: post #3

Synthetic7346 wrote: post #2

I can't believe the wifi got a client before ps5

Honestly surprised it took this long. I guess it's less than ideal, since the wii doesn't support modern tv resolutions.

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Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by Forgeties79 » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 1:23 AM UTC

Man what can’t you do with a Wii? Didn’t someone post an article the other detailing how they booted Mac OS X on it?

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by dmonitor » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

gkhartman wrote: post #3

Synthetic7346 wrote: post #2

I can't believe the wifi got a client before ps5

Honestly surprised it took this long. I guess it's less than ideal, since the wii doesn't support modern tv resolutions.

The Wii supports 240p, though, which is very hard to replicate these days.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by shrinks99 » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by dddddaviddddd » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 1:27 AM UTC

Forgeties79 wrote: post #5

Man what can’t you do with a Wii? Didn’t someone post an article the other detailing how they booted Mac OS X on it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by Acrobatic_Road » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 1:29 AM UTC

dmonitor wrote: post #6

gkhartman wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly surprised it took this long. I guess it's less than ideal, since the wii doesn't support modern tv resolutions.

The Wii supports 240p, though, which is very hard to replicate these days.

Or 480i if you want to watch classic anime on a CRT.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by lamasery » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 1:32 AM UTC

Forced server transcoding for everything. Ouch. Thought maybe at least mpeg2 or something would play directly.