Playing videos in Nook Color
- Thread starter avi
- Start date
markiej
Member
- Dec 22, 2010
- 87
- 7
Not issues per se, just format limitations. Needs to a ".mp4" file encoded with either mpeg4 or h.264 video, and less than 854 pixels wide. Anything besides that will not play at all on the built in media player.
You can install a 3rd party media player on a rooted NC that will expand compatibility (such as Rockplayer), but there are performance issues files encoded with other codecs (divx/xvid etc).
You can install a 3rd party media player on a rooted NC that will expand compatibility (such as Rockplayer), but there are performance issues files encoded with other codecs (divx/xvid etc).
markiej
Member
- Dec 22, 2010
- 87
- 7
No worries - it is not the most user friendly app of all time. Though I think, what people is say is "when it doubt, choose standard iphone defaults"
- Sep 22, 2010
- 1,256
- 81
Then I guess you'll have to give this (http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...using-handbrake-convert-video-nook-color.html) a try and let me know if it works!
-Matt
AnimaTechnica
Senior Member
- Nov 4, 2010
- 789
- 63
been using handbrake for my nook - excellent video quality for me - my settings are 480x256 resolution, mp4 container, h.264 codec, bitrate 800 to 1000 kbps depending on my storage space (higher bitrate = more space ) - so at 800 kbps, i have 2.5 hours movie at 680MB, plays really smooth, looks really good
AnimaTechnica
Senior Member
- Nov 4, 2010
- 789
- 63
hmm, that seems a lot (1.7GB from a 500mb file) - make sure you are at avg bitrate of 700 not constant quality, check picture tab and make sure video res is 480 width - also try using mVideoplayer from the market to playback
- Sep 22, 2010
- 1,256
- 81
Did you use the constant quality setting? What movie/video did you try to transcode? As I mentioned in the how-to, Transformers 2 had so much high-speed action that it came out at 2GB and a much higher bitrate than other non-action movies. So trying again with a fixed bitrate (like AnimaTechnica suggested) may be the best option.
-Matt
RaVenJ
Senior Member
- Jan 24, 2011
- 493
- 31
I tried again (Avatar, extended..) using the suggested settings and it works just fine. I set my bitrate to 800 and it looks really good. Before I left for work I restarted it using a bitrate of 900.. I want to see how much difference it makes to the filesize. Once I'm happy with the output, I'll do the rest of my movie collection.. That'll take a while!
AnimaTechnica
Senior Member
- Nov 4, 2010
- 789
- 63
Hey we can collectively figure this out - we each test a specific bit rate
Based on converting a common file
That way we quickly narrow down ideal file size n quality settings
Based on converting a common file
That way we quickly narrow down ideal file size n quality settings
