My DVD broke a while back (first one I have ever had that just stopped working, all the cheap ones over the years were fine, the fancy Toshiba upconverting one dies after a year - I digress). I had a Wii in the same room connected to the same TV, so I just threw out the DVD player thinking to myself - don't need it, will just play em on the Wii (if the need arises).

Later I found out the Wii isn't a DVD player, sorry, no dice. I was literally sitting there one day going with my Wiimote going "you have to be kidding me, right? - this $200+ device that plays all sorts of software on optical discs can't play a DVD movie? WTF!."

So that was a few months back, and today I come across this in my reader feeds (from a knet share) - ta da:
it's a Wii port of MPlayer (problem solved). Props to Team Twiizers, and thanks.