What video formats does Wii support?


If you are trying to play videos files on Wii from SD card, you may want to know what video formats Wii will support. Read this post to check Wii supported video formats and how to make incompatible videos playable on Wii.
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How can I play video files on Wii from SD Card?
“Hi guys, how can I play video files on Wii from SD Card? When I go to open the videos, I see the video has a question mark on it and when I click on it, it says this video file is not supported by the Wii. What video formats does Wii support? Is there any workaround to make unsupported videos playable on Wii? Any suggestions would be nice. Thanks in advance.”

MOV (motion JPEG) and AVI (motion JPEG) are Wii officially supported video formats. If your source videos are incompatible with Wii, there is a program here that can convert your movies to supported format. Here’s how.

How to convert incompatible videos for viewing on Wii?

Software requirement
HD Video Converter
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Follow these steps:
Step 1: Run HD Video Converter as a professional Video Converter for Wii. When the main interface pops up, you can click ‘Add Video’ or ‘Add from folder’ button to load source files into this program.
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Step 2: Choose output format for Wii
Click “Format” bar to choose ‘Wii MOV Video (*.mov)’ or ‘Wii AVI Video (*.avi)’ as output format under ‘Wii’ column.

Step 3: Custom video and audio settings
You are allowed to click “Settings” button to custom video and audio parameters like resolution, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel on ‘Profile Settings’ panel. To keep original resolution, do remember setting size to ‘original’.
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Step 4: Click ‘Convert’ button to start format conversion.

Step 5: After conversion is complete, click “Open” button to get the exported for playing on Wii with optimum performance.

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