WII torrent client with usb support Would it be really cool to be able to leave your wii running downloading torrents; to say a usb flash or hdd? It would be a genius app. I know not much about coding but would do as much as I could to help!http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51080#msg-51080Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:00:53 +0200 Phorum 5.2.23 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51886#msg-51886 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51886#msg-51886
Not for piracy of course, but I would love to be able to download shows that I miss since I don't have enough time in the day to watch them.

Maybe if coder hooked up the app to sign into sites like demonoid (I use this mainly for anime/tv) or other sites that require accts. it would minimize leeches & piracy. Plus having Mplayer CE makes it very convenient for music/movies/tv shows, heck I just watched V for Vendetta last night on it.

I support this, but I do understand the bad things that would come about w/ it.]]> maxin_013 Ideas, requestsFri, 02 Apr 2010 17:15:19 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51740#msg-51740 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51740#msg-51740 CriticalAcclaim Ideas, requestsWed, 31 Mar 2010 02:19:14 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51532#msg-51532 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51532#msg-51532
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pretty much all of those will have some kind of pc

There's my main problem with this. There's no real use for the program, because, as you stated, almost, if not, all, of those people, have a PC, which they can just as easily use for a Wii torrent client. I just can't see a real reason to use the Wii for my torrenting. I just can't see it.
With respect, this could also be said of most homebrew. I personally leave my mid range spec PC running 24/7 just to run utorrent. The wii uses a LOT less power, and makes less noise. And the wii is currently sat there (next to my TV) doing nothing.
Arikado also has a point, in that, this is all a bit of a moot point as I have absolutely no idea how to make it happen.

Hence why I only use a homebrew app when I have a use for it. The only one that I may use that I could use my PC for is mPlayer_CE, but that's really just because even though I can hook my netbook up to my TV and use it as a media center, I don't have a DVD drive. I'll use mPlayer_CE for a DVD Player in my bedroom]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsThu, 25 Mar 2010 16:30:13 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51528#msg-51528 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51528#msg-51528
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pretty much all of those will have some kind of pc

There's my main problem with this. There's no real use for the program, because, as you stated, almost, if not, all, of those people, have a PC, which they can just as easily use for a Wii torrent client. I just can't see a real reason to use the Wii for my torrenting. I just can't see it.
With respect, this could also be said of most homebrew. I personally leave my mid range spec PC running 24/7 just to run utorrent. The wii uses a LOT less power, and makes less noise. And the wii is currently sat there (next to my TV) doing nothing.
Arikado also has a point, in that, this is all a bit of a moot point as I have absolutely no idea how to make it happen.]]> spacepimp Ideas, requestsThu, 25 Mar 2010 14:36:01 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51319#msg-51319 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51319#msg-51319
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Hello all.
Don't want to proke further heat to the debate, I just want to say that I'd quite like a .torrent client, I started the other thread mentioned at the top of the page:
[forum.wiibrew.org]
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The wii's networking stack kinda sucks. Not sure if the problem is in libogc or IOS but I ran into all sorts of problems when I tried to use more than 6 connections at once (this was after doubling the network heap size in libogc). marcan's idea of using linux would be the best bet since (I believe) it accesses the hardware directly.
I tried Linux but it made my brain hurt and I had to have a lie down. It's a bit labour intensive and I hit a wall. Not literally. But a homebrew torrent clientwould get used, lots of people have hard drives on their wii and many of those have a wireless home network with internet access and pretty much all of those will have some kind of pc. But it requires that a person of some expertise re-writes something that sounds a bit low level, if it's at all possible.
Awesome. I'm sure people will appreciate your hard work.]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsMon, 22 Mar 2010 11:49:32 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51313#msg-51313 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51313#msg-51313
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pretty much all of those will have some kind of pc

There's my main problem with this. There's no real use for the program, because, as you stated, almost, if not, all, of those people, have a PC, which they can just as easily use for a Wii torrent client. I just can't see a real reason to use the Wii for my torrenting. I just can't see it.]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsMon, 22 Mar 2010 05:51:42 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51312#msg-51312 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51312#msg-51312Don't want to proke further heat to the debate, I just want to say that I'd quite like a .torrent client, I started the other thread mentioned at the top of the page:
[forum.wiibrew.org]
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The wii's networking stack kinda sucks. Not sure if the problem is in libogc or IOS but I ran into all sorts of problems when I tried to use more than 6 connections at once (this was after doubling the network heap size in libogc). marcan's idea of using linux would be the best bet since (I believe) it accesses the hardware directly.
I tried Linux but it made my brain hurt and I had to have a lie down. It's a bit labour intensive and I hit a wall. Not literally. But a homebrew torrent clientwould get used, lots of people have hard drives on their wii and many of those have a wireless home network with internet access and pretty much all of those will have some kind of pc. But it requires that a person of some expertise re-writes something that sounds a bit low level, if it's at all possible.]]> spacepimp Ideas, requestsMon, 22 Mar 2010 05:21:24 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51203#msg-51203 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51203#msg-51203
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It would be rather convenient.

No it wouldn't

Steps to use Wii Torrent Client
1) Go into same room as Wii
2) Turn on Wii
3) Start up HBC
4) Start up Wii Torrent Client
5) Use

Now, since you're checking a torrent client/using a torrent client, chances are, you're at your computer anyway




Steps to using torrent client on a PC
1) Open uTorrent

Steps to using a torrent client on a Mac
1) Open Transmission


Now, which sounds more convenient to you?

The real pc procedure

1) boot windoze 7

2) twenty minutes later your computer has stabalised

3) seek torrent

4) start utorrent and wait

5) Let it use your cpu whilst you could browse the net

6)Use

Well, now you just aggravated me, so, I'm going to break this down step by step

1) Who said we are all using Windows 7? I sure as hell am not
2) 20 minutes?! I'm not sure you're qualified to efficiently use a computer, let along write code on one
3) Well you would have to do this anyway, would you not?
4) Wait for what? uTorrent takes all of 5 seconds to load
5) Yep, at least your computer can multitask, unlike the Wii. You also specified uTorrent, which is an incredibly light Torrent client, so it barely takes any CPU cycles. In fact, let's see how much memory uTorrent is taking up for me right now, I've been running it nonstop for about 3 days. Hmm... Just over 1 MB. Beyond that, let's see my total CPU usage... 3%, on an intel Atom, with 1 GB of ram. Not exactly the best specs around, but it's a netbook, what more could I really ask for.
6) Use what? You completely forgot to include any sort of description whatsoever as to what we're going to be using here. Is it what we just torrented? The torrent client itself? The computer? You completely forgot to add this information.


So now, let me just get this straight. You, apparently intend to write a torrent client, or at least a way to access a WebUI, for the Wii. Your reasoning for this is that your computer is too loud, and, judging by the steps you listed, takes 20 minutes to get into a working state. This makes me unsure of if you should even be running on Windows 7, which I'm going to guess you are. Logically, one would run their system on the OS that runs the best on it, like how I run Windows XP on my Netbook, because it runs beautifully on here, but I don't run Windows 7 for the specific reason that it doesn't perform as well. You also, apparently can't handle the concept of running uTorrent in the background, and letting it take up (minimal) CPU cycles, from what I gather, that's too taxing on your machine. This boggles my mind, since uTorrent is designed to be as lightweight as can be.

So rather than run a torrent client in the most efficient way possible, you'd rather run it on a system that can't even multitask, because your computer's ambient noise is too f'ing loud. Well boo-f'ing-hoo. Try living next to a major highway like me. Computer noise is nothing.]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsFri, 19 Mar 2010 07:30:46 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51198#msg-51198 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51198#msg-51198 bg4545 Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 23:57:36 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51196#msg-51196 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51196#msg-51196
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It would be rather convenient.

No it wouldn't

Steps to use Wii Torrent Client
1) Go into same room as Wii
2) Turn on Wii
3) Start up HBC
4) Start up Wii Torrent Client
5) Use

Now, since you're checking a torrent client/using a torrent client, chances are, you're at your computer anyway



Steps to using torrent client on a PC
1) Open uTorrent

Steps to using a torrent client on a Mac
1) Open Transmission


Now, which sounds more convenient to you?

The real pc procedure

1) boot windoze 7

2) twenty minutes later your computer has stabalised

3) seek torrent

4) start utorrent and wait

5) Let it use your cpu whilst you could browse the net

6)Use]]> guile Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 23:19:28 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51195#msg-51195 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51195#msg-51195 guile Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 23:14:01 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51194#msg-51194 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51194#msg-51194 guile Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 23:13:41 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51191#msg-51191 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51191#msg-51191
My best advice to make this happen: Find open source examples of torrent usage and keep bugging people. Or, ya know, do it yourself.]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 22:41:29 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51187#msg-51187 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51187#msg-51187Torrent router.

Is anybody actually up for coding this application? or is it just me?]]> guile Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 21:17:47 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51181#msg-51181 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51181#msg-51181 cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 20:44:08 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51170#msg-51170 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51170#msg-51170
My desktop pcs and laptop are fairly loud, this ambient noise gets too much.

The Wii. Is almost silent so I could leave it on 247. It would be cool to have a http access chanel. Then o.could add torrents.from my phone.

This response was written on my HTC so I apologise TOT any mistakes made in advance.]]> guile Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 18:53:49 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51157#msg-51157 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51157#msg-51157
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guile
It would be rather convenient.

No it wouldn't

Steps to use Wii Torrent Client
1) Go into same room as Wii
2) Turn on Wii
3) Start up HBC
4) Start up Wii Torrent Client
5) Use

Now, since you're checking a torrent client/using a torrent client, chances are, you're at your computer anyway

Steps to using torrent client on a PC
1) Open uTorrent

Steps to using a torrent client on a Mac
1) Open Transmission


Now, which sounds more convenient to you?]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 16:27:14 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51143#msg-51143 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51143#msg-51143
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Just because you torrent something doesn't mean its illegal.
I never said it was illegal.]]> WaxyPumpkin72 Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 06:10:53 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51136#msg-51136 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51136#msg-51136 guile Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 02:56:50 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51133#msg-51133 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51133#msg-51133
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I doubt that something like this would be supported on wiibrew; it would make it easier for pirates to download their piracy related things.
In the words of a popular video game character, "OBJECTION!".

1)Torrents are a more convenient form and faster form of download
2)Just because you torrent something doesn't mean its illegal. I torrented all the 26c3 videos.
3)It's more convenient to torrent from any computer than the Wii - thus this does not make piracy easier. This also makes the app sort of pointless, but I guess anyone who made it would be doing it for the challenge more so than for actually using it]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsThu, 18 Mar 2010 02:44:16 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51085#msg-51085 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51085#msg-51085
I prefer to download a torrented version of a legal file over standard http, as it is faster and continually checks the checksums.

A homebrew app similar to this : hardware]]> guile Ideas, requestsWed, 17 Mar 2010 03:06:27 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51083#msg-51083 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51083#msg-51083 WaxyPumpkin72 Ideas, requestsWed, 17 Mar 2010 02:21:12 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51082#msg-51082 Re: WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51082#msg-51082[forum.wiibrew.org]]]> bg4545 Ideas, requestsWed, 17 Mar 2010 02:16:15 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51080#msg-51080 WII torrent client with usb supporthttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,51080,51080#msg-51080
It would be a genius app. I know not much about coding but would do as much as I could to help!]]> guile Ideas, requestsWed, 17 Mar 2010 01:33:38 +0100