Yes, I still use my Wii on some occasions. Usually, it's just to browse the web or use the Youtube app and its hapless streaming and buffering insanity. I remember long ago before the html5 video days that Youtube videos used to stream at 240p reliably on the Internet Channel but those days are long gone. While the Youtube app plays videos at crisp visual detail, the buffering insanity means you'll barely ever get to watch anything.
Last night, I had an idea to improve my usage experience of this horrible app. This is to play only videos with smaller resolution when encoded on Youtube. You'll spot video preview images that sport a letterbox-like black borders versus those that have the full screen when you search for videos. I think that these imply the video source uploaded to Youtube was not ideal and the server encoding ended up producing odd borders. Less video image information per packet, should mean better buffering, hopefully. I tried it on one video and got reasonable streaming performance. I will look for other videos and see if this theory works.
As a funny extra random thought. Try browsing the Nintendo Miiverse using the Internet Channel and laugh at Nintendo.
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