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[Nook Color General] :
OMG! Running 7.0 stable and 4/04 kernel OCd to 1100. WOW! I can't believe how fluid that was! You guys have got me pretty excited :D
[Nook Color General] LarcenQ:
This.

Same with the insidious trailer, both played flawlessley in Moboplayer. Of course in realworld situations this wouldnt suit me. On a long travel trip I would want more than a few movies to choose from, only so many 2gb movies fit on a 16 or 32gb uSD card.

Awesome nonetheless.
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
OK, a bit confused...what I downloaded was a .mov, which I don't believe can be played with Act 1. The Stock Player and Act 1 play the same types of movie files, which are only hardware based, is that correct? Are you playing that movie via Software only?

Or did I download the wrong file?
[Nook Color General] RisingRider:
Edit: Derp. Installed the emmc version, and it worked. Before I was running CM7 stable I was running a nightly and assumed it was installed on the SD.
[Nook Color General] LarcenQ:
I watched it on mine with Mobo Player, it played both the Insidious trailer and the Pirates trailer flawlessly.
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
I experienced a major crash with the ALSA fix and the 4/13A kernel. Was watching Space:Above and Beyond ripped from DVD by Handbrake with Dalingrin's settings. At second video it crashed(video stopped, device shut down:confused:) and began bootlooping:eek:(got to Cyanogen boot animation and restarted...with headphones on could ear the audio initialize..then poof). Got into CWR with Power+N...wiped cache.....no go. Tried reflashing kernel...no go.

Cyanogen stable, Dal's 4/13A kernel, the ALSA fix, stock vid player. Vids were on internal mem(/emmc/myfiles/videos)

Has to be something with the combo as I was watching the vids a second time for comparison between the 4/11 and 4/13A kernels.

I guess it's a good day to go back stock in prep for the update(want to try it out when it drops anyhow...love the stock reader)
[Nook Color General] LongbowFoSho:
I've had the lockup as well.

I was watching my test episode of The Office in Mobo and it suddenly became very choppy. Decided to try to the stock player and it locked up entirely. Worked fine after a reboot, though.

EDIT: Just downloaded and played the Insidious trailer and I'm completely stoked to say that it played absolutely perfectly on my "typical" CPU setup of 800/1100 OnDemand.

To the guy who uploaded it: you did or did NOT run this through HandBrake? Windows shows it as an 854x480 file, yet you said its the original 720p file. Is there something I'm missing? Where did you download it from?

I'm not calling you out or anything. I want to know exactly which settings you used if you did it in HandBrake so I can do EVERYTHING just like that, LOL.
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
hey man don't knock me, I've watched chisleu's Miss A video over 100x, nothing against the band, they are rather attractive, but its a terrible song, I can't get it out of my head now.

There it goes again.

"Shut up boy ... shut up boy ..."

Most of it isn't even in English.

"You don't know me ... you don't know me ..."

Uhhh.

EDIT: "Hello ... Hello ... Hello ... "

Uhhh.
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
Yep, awesome, thanks.
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
Dude... me too. I primarily listen to metal music, but I have that song in my head from watching over and over to test. Hahaha.

To the other guy, the insidious trailor is converted with my high quality preset. The 720p file is the link to the pirates video.
[Nook Color General] LarcenQ:
I just noticed you're from my neck of the woods, or just South East of it anyhow.

Anyway, where is this HQ Preset you speak of? I may just encode my movies using HQ settings and store it on my media server at home, and change them out as needed on my various 32GB uSD cards to interchange when traveling etc.

Once you get used to a HQ movie, its hard to watch one that's been encoded at say an 800 bit-rate. (IE 750mb file).
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
just an update: having issues reflashing to stock...maybe hardware issues...will repost after a full wipe and reinstall of cm7(forgot how clunky stock is)....
[Nook Color General] dookie23:
Crashing...

Hi,

I have also experienced Youtube video not working, then the Nook locked up as well. I had do a hard reboot to resolve the issue. I am also running the 4/13A kernel with the ALSA fix.

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
I posted it somewhere. I will post it when I get home. It is the same thing from the handbrake preset thread, but I use the constant bitrate encoder. 800 bitrate isn't horrible on the nc though, especially at the lower resolution. I prefer 1kish with 854 width
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
This is sickening. Investigating the video lock problem, I just played the Miss A video another 5X.

I found myself googling the band couple of days ago, though, and I now know the girls' names: Fei, Jia, Min and Suzy. Don't know who I like more, Min or Suzy.

"You don't know me ... you don't know me ..."

Maybe Suzy. Isn't she the tall one. Can someone confirm?

EDIT: I need to do a format system/data/cache on myself. Or maybe just format cache, to get the song out of my head. Is there a high-res video of Rebecca Black Friday somewhere, maybe I can play that 100X.
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
Just from reading and testing, my fear is that it may be the Alsa fix, since the other changes had not been causing an issue..
[Nook Color General] keyodi:
I haven't had any crashes running 39, OC 4/4 and the Alsa fix. Other than the lower quad scores everything works perfectly.
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12937962&postcount=1428

Install 4/13a and report back? :)

My solution is to watch "Asking Alexandria - The Final Episode" followed abruptly by "In Flames - Take This Life". They are both available on vevo/youtube.

Suzi is 16 year old girl who always wears the less slutty outfits (skirts and such)

I <3 them all so much... lol
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
LOL! No, def not knocking you, Med....the "Eagle" trailer is actually a very good test video because I can see darks, lights, colors, slow-paced dialog, writing on the screen, and then fast-paced action scenes...it has it all in there. Although I have taken to acting out the scenes in real life in my house now as I watch it, I know it that well!! :D

So, are people playing .mov files using Mobo or some other player? Act 1 will not play .mov files for me and that is the only player I use right now.
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
Yeah. it was working yesterday. Now I can't get it to play at all. no clue wtf.

In regards to the Miss A videos, I started watching them trying to convince my wife that I like it for the music. haha

I kept using it as a test video because it is so easy to tell if the audio was not synced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnwjlDhAY4 <---- watch me

EDIT: I can't get it to crash except when I try to play something in software mode, even a video that plays perfectly (many times) in hardware. Then it starts freaking out.
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
WTF! I just saw the video....my eyes, ears, brain will never be the same again...LOL...not even going to ask where the heck this came from, chisleu.

EDIT: I think the blonde is my fav
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
moboplayer subtitles

hey all.

First, disclaimer: I'm an android noob, in a literal sense. Never owned a handheld of any kind till i bought the NC. Now i can't get enough of it. And playing movies on this is REALLY interesting (with long air flights coming up this summer and restless kids, it'll be just the ticket!)

I'm on CM7 nightly 39, with Dal's 03/31 kernel, 300/1100/conservative usually, and using moboplayer (I can pick up a LOT of pointers just lurking, apparently).

I can't get moboplayer to show subtitles not noway, not nohow, unless it's closed captioned passed through by HB, and in an mkv container.

So first question: any reason not to use mkv? i notice no difference in playback between the m4v and mkv, but m4v will not show subtitles of any kind. i can confirm the subtitles came through via VLC, so they're there.

Any suggestions on getting this to work, or should I just go with mkv and live happy? I assume this is strictly moboplayer issue, but i'm too new to do more than guess.
[Nook Color General] keyodi:
I had the issue with the video locking up on 4/13a, that's why I went back to 4/4.
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
so n39 + 4/4 + alsa works?

n39 + 3/31 + alsa doesn't work. crashes as soon as you try to play anything in software.
[Nook Color General] keyodi:
n39 + 4/4 + alsa works for me. I'll try 3/31 tonight and let you know.
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
So we are clear, are you playing in software or are you playing in hardware (stock player)
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
Further update...not quite sure what happened...lost my /boot...fought all day trying to get back to a working cm7. up and running now. but all my encoded videos are saying can't be played by stock player.

Cm7 stable...stock kernel @950Mhz...stock player...moboplayer plays,but only in software...strange.

Edit: video as follows...

714 x 480

H.264 / AVC

30 frames per second

MPEG-4 AAC audio

Stereo

44100 Hz

159 kbps

any ideas?
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
.mkv is not supposed to work with hardware players like Stock and Act 1, but if you can get them to play with Mobo and it looks/behaves good, then I don't see any reason to try and fix something that doesn't appear to be broken.

Btw, I accidentally left subs on in one of my videos when encoding with HB, ripped from a DVD, and it is an .m4v (h.264) and plays just fine with Act 1.
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
mobo subs in software only

With all the av talent here, can anyone explain why i can get subtitles to show up in software encoding in moboplayer, but not in hardware encoding? i can now get the subs to appear in both the m4v and mkv files, but only in soft mode (note: clip is made with nook presets, and subtitle passed through from the closed-caption track. VOBSUB subtitles don't work at all).

And to contribute to the other discussion (you know, the important one), i also confirm perfectly suitable playback with 03/31 kernel but some audio popping (854x3somethignorother size with RF20 and stereo/44.1/DRC2). I'm not interested in trying the test kernels with all the problems everyone's reporting at the moment, but would like a somewhat smoother play. Stock player gives same results.
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
Strange indeed. CM7 Stable with 950 is usually silky-smooth, so not sure why you would be having that problem. How did you get back up and running once you lost /boot (which in itself is odd)? I ass-u-me that the videos played before with that same setup?
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
Thanks. I posted right after you it seems. will check out act 1.
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
I can play a video with subs in Act 1, which is hardware only player. This came from a DVD, ripped by HB.
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
And I posted after you :)

Yeah, I have the paid version, but works extremely well due to the Zoom modes it has built-in. In any event, it may also depend on how you encode the file if you are using Handbrake?
[Nook Color General] keyodi:
I'm using the stock player.

Ok, below is the testing I've done so far:

c39 + OC 3/31 + Alsa - No issues with video

c39 + OC 4/4 + Alsa - No issues with video

c39 + OC 4/13 + Alsa - video crashes

c39 + OC 4/13a + Alsa - video crashes

c39 + OC 4/13a (without Alsa fix) - video crashes

I think it's th OC kernel causing the issue, not the Alsa fix.
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
These are fresh rips...hadn't watched these yet, but used the same settings as other files.

Ended up downloading the files here... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=949699. Actually had to use the file on one of the linked threads to rebuild /boot, then go about reflashing...took a while.

Gonna try reencoding in the morning using Dal's preset for HB. Right now they all say can't be played with the 4/4 and ALSA fix. Really want to get this fingered out...I go back to work on the road for a week at a shot on the 25th. This will be my entertainment. Might have to go stock and muddle through the ad hoc fixes...meh.

EDIT: I tried older encodes from my phone...320x240 Res...not surprisingly they play. Seeing some jerking in them though. Feeling I have bigger issues here.
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
I am using handbrake. its a weird situation. When encoding using either the VOBSUB track or the CC track, mobo "sees" that there is a subtitle, but will only play it if it came from the CC track (and only in soft mode, of course).

Act 1 won't show subtitles with either of them (at least in the trial version). says it supports srt only, which is appended as a separate file. HB isn't giving me that option, so don't know if it's HB not allowing other subtitle tracks to be converted to srt, or just what's available on the DVD.

If your'e seeing it in act 1 and its hardware only, are you sure you didn't burn it into the image? I'm trying to avoid going that route as i'm the only one in the family who uses subtitles (hearing issues).
[Nook Color General] dalingrin:
Great info, thanks.
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
Yes, it is for sure burned in via Handbrake. HB v0.93 was always tricky for me when it came to subtitles, as it was always enabled and I had to remove that track from the encode settings each time. Sometimes I would forget to de-select. v0.95 does not work in this manner.

So yeah, if you want purely an overlay and not hard-coded, then that goes beyond my skill-set. Sorry.
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
Just saw this, haven't gone through all the iterations as you but I can confirm.

c39 + 041311A + ALSA = video crash, while c39 + 041311A (No ALSA) = no video crash.

I have logcats, will post soon to kernel thread.

EDIT: sorry, typo above, c39 + 041311A (No ALSA) = video crashes, same as you.
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
I will post up logcats today.

I get crashes with just n39, no alsa, no kernel. Perhaps it is something with the build process of n39? I'm going to crash it once and then install cm7.0 and test up to +alsa + 4/13A
[Nook Color General] keyodi:
The video quality has been great with 040411 and the Alsa fix, no shuttering or choppiness while playing videos in the stock player. I tested with the two Eagle trailers and one movie that I convert at 720x400 w/ 800 bitrate. I couldn't watch that "don't know me" music(if you call that music) vid anymore, so I didn't test this one.:)

Additional info: I used both the interactive and conservative governors during my testing
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
Well, I've narrowed my issue down a bit. Seems I had managed to set HB to constant quality on my encodes and the bitrate musta been to high. Recodes at 800kbs are working.

Still at a loss as to what happened with that first crash though, as those files were done "right".

I will post logcats of any further crashes.
[Nook Color General] swapdotavi:
If anyone has experience with VLC Stream and Convert me and my really weird network issues when streaming video would love a hand :( I'm pretty lost.

System/network specs and details on the issue through the link.
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
Sorry man, I had no success with that. I could barely get it to play, and it would go out of sync if you pause or FF or anything.
[Nook Color General] :
yeah, been tweaking streaming settings. Can't get audio to sync. video is smooth (4/04 OC'd kernel + ALSA update), but no synicng...
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
I'm game to try this out too. Just to confirm: alsa update can be flashed anytime after OC flashed?

Currently on 033111. If i flash alsa next, and then try the 040411 kernel, will i need to flash alsa again? (or another way of asking: will flashing a new kernel erase the alsa update?)
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
alsa update is completelyi independent of kernel version. I am running n39 + alsa + 4/13a for testing but you could run 4/4 or 4/11 or whatever if you want stable video.

EDIT: I guess advertising works... I'm watching "The Eagle" right now.
[Nook Color General] swapdotavi:
I've heard that can be a problem with your VLC version. Try downgrading to 1.1.3 to fix the sync problems.

Damn, I'm still stuck as all hell.
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
As I understood it, I thought the original quote was the order of installing....so, do you install the kernel first, then ALSA or vice-versa? I have been doing both, but not sure if there is a "right" way, as I didn't see dalingrin mention anything about it.

If the answer is "it doesn't matter which order", then I will say, from my own testing, that the sound is def louder when flashing ALSA after the kernel.
[Nook Color General] keyodi:
The latest nightly has the alsa fix included. So, the install order would be nightly 40, then the OC kernel.
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
Say what now? I just checked the nightlies changelog, and saw nothing related to alsa on 40. Can you confirm?
[Nook Color General] keyodi:
It's not displayed if you are checking http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore

It was added on the 14th.

http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,4655
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
video playback Battery Life

Thought I would try to contribute something about battery life playing video.

Annoyed that battery meter not reading 100% after full charge past few days, I did battery stat wipe.

Disregarding popular consensus about how bad this video is, I went ahead and looped said Miss A 2000Kpbs clip (thanks chisleu) until shutdown.

Result: 5:20 Hour. That's 80+ run of "so shut up boy ... so shut up boy" if anybody's doing the math.

So, say you're gonna be on airplane, needing to wring as much battery life out of a full charge as possible. Lower bit rate, less processor demand, but how much does downsampling to 576x320 800 Kbps gain in terms of battery life, if at all?

Or, you want to watch your favorite movie maxed out 854x480 3000 Kbps, what's the relative battery hit?

I'll do some testing and post back in few days.

EDIT: I usually get nearly 10 hours battery life from full charge typical use, running recent CM7 nightlies and dalingrin OC kernels 300/1100 interactive. Granted, typical use for me brightness 10% in dark with babies asleep, but still nearly 10 hours.
[Nook Color General] 360Razir:
I didn't check for a new Nightly all weekend, so thanks for the heads-up on #40 and the fact that ALSA is baked-in now.
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
thumbs up!
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
I'm very curious about this too, as i'm selling this to my wife as an alternative to lugging her laptop around for "movie distraction" for the kids on the plane.

FWIW, i'm big on statistics and design of experiments, so if you wanted to set up some slick experimental design and sound all uppity with your results, i can hook you up! :) (I'm currently running one myself, to see if I can lower the sleep-state batt drain... no joy so far, will probably have to wait for dalingrin's magic).
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
Uploading "Rise of the Planet of the Apes - trailer 3000kbps" now :)

It looks... like a good movie. and decent. There is one part that has some heavy artifacts. Not an encoding genius so I don't think there is much I can do about it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cdqq3p36ayff3q8
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
So I flashed nightly 40 and the 041811 kernel...works well until I try any HIGH bitrate vids(Miss A, anything real big in youtube), then instant shutdown. Sorry no logcats as of yet...I'll try to force the issue this afternoon when the 1 year old takes his nap....
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
Yeah hey man thanks, I was thinking fresh install CM7, no apps, not even gapps, start each battery drain test from reboot, drain until shutdown, use Act1 to loop hw-accel playback. Wanna measure something about power consumption, found PowerTutor, don't know anything about it though. Also want to measure CPU utilization, System Panel might work, but I don't think gives very good report. What do you think?
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
man i know the feeling.

theres a B and C version out there, maybe one of those.
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
Indeed... make sure you are using the C version.. Solid as a rock, and great system performance. Probably some of the best we can get till 2.6.32 rolls around (assuming that brings better performance.. heh).
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
Hmm...missed B and C versions...I'll get on the C right away...Thanks guys
[Nook Color General] deadbot1:
Dalingrin...don't have a clue what you changed...but you are a freaking genius. Downloaded 041811C, Pirates, Insidious, and Planet of the ape trailers plus the ones that dropped it hard before. Smooth like a strippers silk panties. Absolutely perfect. Zero issues after multiple runs. Worst part is now I can tell how low I went with my own encodes.

Damn...now I gotta shell out for 32 gig cards...:)
[Nook Color General] lrome53:
CM78 Mod

Hi,

I am trying to install the CM7 to my Nook Color using the Verygreen instructions and after flashing the generic image to the SD card the card is no longer recognnized and I cannot copy the CM7 file to the card...what am I doing wrong?

thanks,

Larry
[Nook Color General] chisleu:
Yep. I have a lot of hardware on my list and 32gb cards are trying to skip in line.
[Nook Color General] migrax:
Eject your SDCard and re-insert it, files should show up.

migrax
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
Sounds good to me. For a simple comparison like this, best thing would be to do it at least twice in each state. I don't have a clue how variable battle drain is under use. Important thing is not to change your base setup while doing this so you don't muddy the results with something else (that means no more kernel flashes till you're done!). Don't forget the governor. I bet that will make a big difference. You could try twice on conservative low Res,twice on performance low Res, twice on conservative high Res, and twice on performance high Res. 8 runs. Measure however works best for you, as I know nothing about the apps you mention. Hell you could throw in other variables too like wifi off/on, etc. You could take this all sorts of places.

That expt I just described is a simple replicated 2x2 factorial, if you care to know. I think I just proved I out geek y'all!
[Nook Color General] Ophbalance:
Wow... that insidious trailer is just awesome! Some day in the next few weeks I need to make a stop into the office and out geek the dudes with a gTab and DroidX that I know ;). The speaker on the nook may suck, but the headphone out seems OK.
[Nook Color General] skwalas:
dark color issues

NC doesn't seem to handle large areas with shades of blacks/grays, especially during slow pans/zooms. They tend to flicker a bit and look washed out. not sure it's an encoding issue, as I can play various clips fine by VLC. clips look the same in hardware or software mode (i'm using mobo and stock). Hardware actually seems worse.

(quicknote: running nightly 41 with 041811C, 300/1100 performance/ondemand/conservative depending on investigative mood).

I can reduce the effect to some extent by increasing to RF10 on live-action or RF18 on CGI films, but never seems to completely go away. I wonder if its a function of how players in android decode? Is this observed elsewhere? perhaps some settings in hb advanced tab that might be useful?

Also, any secret to calibrating color on the NC? they don't match the image from the DVD very well in darker scenes.