Last week, a trial version of the Opera web browser was released for the Wii. I was able to successfully control my mouse on my laptop using a bluetooth adapter and today I found a media center has been released for the Wii by Red Kawa.

I installed the media center and found that the music functionality does not yet work on the media center, its no big deal because I was planning on using it for movies/tv anyway.

Converting the videos takes about 20 min with the Red Kawa Wii Video Converter, a couple of games of Wii Sports Tennis should make that go by quickly.

Apparently you can combine the Red Kawa converter with Videora and it will automatically download and convert Bit Torrent RSS feeds for you. The downside is that Videora is not free but there are other programs out there that can do the same thing.

Once you have your video converted you use the Wii browser to access the media center and play your videos. It works pretty well but the Wii browser controls never go away so you have to deal with them while watching your videos.

I would be very impressed if Nintendo built its own media center and made it available for download from the Wii Shop Channel. Hopefully Nintendo provides a better experience.