I looked at these but unfortunately they only support 64 and 128-bit WEP encryption so would require me to downgrade my network security.

From memory, and it is a good few years ago now, the WDS enabled routers I used in my daughter's place, also only supported WEP, not WPA, over WDS bridged mode, even though they supported WPA as Router/APs.

This may have changed with WDS, now, but I don't know.

Rgds.


Les.

If you're a bit techno savvy you could do what I've done.

Get a second hand WRT54G off ebay (paid £11 for mine), install the dd-wrt firmware and put it in "wireless bridge" mode. Then plug the PVR into it.

It's sitting behind my tv at the moment working nicely.

Not at the moment.

Is the freesat iPlayer SD quality going to be the same as for the Wii ?

I have the iPlayer for the Wii and the quality is not as good as normal SD broadcasts (although its just about watchable), so if its the same for freesat then i probably won't use it that much.

Isn't the video cable supplied with the Wii composite video, if so this might explain the poor quality.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=914573

Dan.

the freesat HD boxes have a chipset with h.264 AVC decoding built in. the wii doesnt, so (hopefully) this will allow the video stream to be compressed to a higher ratio, and allow a better picture.

I would have thought picture quality wise it will be between what the wii can do and the ps3 can do.

....and yes the wii comes with a compshite cable as standard but you can buy compnonent version of ebay for about £4 in p+p

I should get the laptop or the TV looked at (maybe try a decent HDMI cable first?) if it looks like youtube.

I would say HQ iPlayer looks somewhere between ITV SD and DVD from my laptop (or even like Tiscali). 'Other sourced' recordings of TV Eps look just like DVD.

If the HDMI cable wasn't decent the picture wouldn't exist.

Well, I've seen the difference between HDMI cables, so explain that.



So I say, try a decent cable (short as poss). I don't mean expensive, just a proven one.

I'll explain then, if the picture isn't dropping out and doesn't have sparklies then the cable is fine.

What difference have you seen?

To quote the BBC technical department may explain things:-

Nintendo Wii supports only Flash 7, which uses the Sorenson Spark codec rather than the ON2 VP6 codec introduced with Flash 8. Unfortunately, the Sorenson compression isn't nearly as good as ON2 VP6 compression, which is why most video sites gave up encoding their content in Flash 7 compatible format.

However, there are a lot of Wii boxes out there hooked up to TV sets, so with a little extra encoding effort (specifically, transcoding an additional 400 hours per week in an extra format) we can make BBC iPlayer programming available on Flash 7-enabled devices, including Wii.

Our regular Flash content is encoded at 500Kbps. We chose that bitrate because it's the highest quality that could be reliably streamed on pretty much any UK broadband internet connection. However, for Wii we had to increase the bitrate to 820Kbps because the Sorenson codec used by Wii simply needs more bits to achieve the same picture quality. So, for a smooth playback experience on Wii you'll need an internet connection that can give you 1Mbps or better. If you're experiencing buffering issues, try turning off those p2p downloads that are running on other computers around your home.

The Flash player that ships with Wii was designed to support YouTube-style quality levels rather than the much higher video quality that we try to provide in iPlayer. Unfortunately, that means on Wii, at least at this time, our programmes won't look as crisp as on Mac, PC or iPhone. iPlayer on Wii is still in beta, and over the coming weeks we'll tweak the video encoding rates and playback window size to get the best possible video quality.

Exactly as you mention, jagged, stuttering video with beaucoup sparklies, with ok audio - obviously a naff cable.

Different 'working' cables have had differing colour balance, some look washy, others look rich with deep colour contrasts. Changing 'working' cables makes has never had much impact on audio - it's either there or it isn't.

I know the theory you're trying to explain, but I've seen a range of symptoms not thought to be possible with accepted 'causes'. It won't hurt to try a different cable - even though it shouldn't make a difference, it sometimes does.
Last edited by nando-torres : 01-12-2009 at 16:00

How would you attribute different colour contrasts? After all we are talking about a digital source, cables can neither lose or add to the original material. Yes the signal can break down as per visible signal errors but not enough to lose colour. The only way to tell is side by side comparison on identical setups, as few people are able to do this the placebo effect definitely exists.

If the signal is reaching the screen in an acceptable fashion I cannot see how this can be improved upon? Analogue yes, digital no.