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[Nook Color General] sark666:
I read there are aspect ratio issues with the built in player. But I also read that even in mp4 base other video players can't take advantage of the hardware playback accel (proprietary drivers). Is that correct?
[Nook Color General] triggrhaapi:
Handbrake doesn't work for windows?
[Nook Color General] techboydino:
Handbrake works great on Windows. Encoded a few this week for the Nook and ran like buttah.
[Nook Color General] frostman89:
Out of curiosity, why not just use RockPlayer. I'm yet to get an NC so I may be missing something.
[Nook Color General] swm5126:
It runs kind of choppy on video files encoded with anything other H.264/MPEG4 and the audio seems to get out of sync quickly :(
[Nook Color General] notinterested:
And linux.
[Nook Color General] heelerdog:
the latest version of rock player seems to have a lot better handle on audio sync...
[Nook Color General] yemin88:
we can never watch the avi videos without converting ?
[Nook Color General] hetzbh:
Maybe

It really depends how the official Froyo update (coming in January) will improve performance.
[Nook Color General] drksilenc:
rock player works fine... the problem is that you cant have above a 480p video. the reason is its not the audio thats lagging its the video studdering and thats whats causing the lagg
[Nook Color General] MrOtsKrad:
The topic title should read "how to watch videos on your nook if you run Linux" :P

You added all the settings you need for it, but not for the other operating systems lol You can run the file through any of these programs, (speaking Mac/Win) but just because you encode it with H.264 doesn't mean its going to play smoothly. If your source file is 1080p, this obviously isn't going to work.

My source file is:

H.264

Deinterlaced

720p

30fps

VBR 1 pass

AAC. 192kbps 48kHz, Stereo

So far Im at a video file @ 1024x576 at 15fps (tried to pull the Consistent Quality slider to 100%, but didn't see much differance) thats had the smoothest playback.

Now Im pretty much brand new to video editing and making, are there any settings I could be useing to make this file more smooth using Handbreak....or even more so In Adobe Premiere?

Im basically trying to see what the highest quality the Nook can take. Not to mention a continuous video of my coral reef while Im at work sitting next to me on my NC would b kinda epic :D
[Nook Color General] bugeyed1:
I use DropFolders. It uses HandBrake & you set it up with a watch folder & a destination folder. All you do is drop a video in the watch folder & it converts the file & puts it in your destination folder. You set up the HandBrake arguements in Drop Folders. Works like a charm.

Cheers,

kev
[Nook Color General] peiziyu:
According to the published specs for the NC, the default app will not play video above 854x480. If you want to use hardware decoding through the default app, you'll need to scale that down from 1024.

I have several videos encoded using one of the latest nightly builds of handbrake for NC, and with the constant quality set at 20, playback is flawless. You can use the "Apple Universal" setting to get the required baseline profile for MP4 and then adjust the video size as you like.

You can also use the "High Profile" and change some settings and per HERE. I was, however, able to set the max width above 720, unlike the third poster.
[Nook Color General] MrOtsKrad:
Innnnnnteresting! Thank you! I will give this a shot and see what I come up with :)
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
I posted a handbrake preset here. It works well for me.
[Nook Color General] cyberkylian:
Hi why can you try rockplayer for play video like divx
[Nook Color General] John9Tim:
Don't worry, I found an easy way to convert videos for nook color, read the article "Nook Color Video Converter Review – easy play any video on Nook Color"

from

icamcorder.net
[Nook Color General] Flumpus:
Got a Nook Color over the weekend, and video looks great using the Handbrake preset posted here... I'm using Autonooter, and the built in Gallery app to play it. However, I'm curious, if I decided to try out Honeycomb, will other video player apps use hardware decoding with files encoded with the Handbrake preset, or is it limited to the stock Nook app? Thanks!
[Nexus S General] PrisonerOfDoom:
I'm using the T-Mobile visual voicemail app and it never works right. I've tried installing and uninstalling it several times with no luck. At first I was having problems with it force closing when I opened it. Then I noticed it would make me setup my visual voicemail account everytime I turned off my phone. Now when I'm listening to a message the proximity sensor doesn't work. It also makes my phone play all of the alert sounds (like the lock and unlock sounds) through the earpiece instead of the rear speaker after listening to a message. Has anyone else encountered any of these problems? I really don't want to do a factory reset if I don't have to. Any help/advice would be great.
[Nexus S General] jboehle:
I can't even get mine set up. Wonder if it's because I'm on EasyPay with no contract?
[Nexus S General] unremarked:
That's a negative. :/ I'm using YouMail from the market for my VVM, it works pretty good, and was easy to set up. I'd suggest looking into that.

Voicemail forwarding does not work on FlexPay accounts, either T-Mobile's or through a third party like YouMail.
[Nexus S General] ztm.000:
That's a +1 for YouMail. Best ever.
[Windows Phone 7 General] wwfc:
I am writing this now on a handset which has really not lived up to all its hype, for me anyway.

I received the Samsung Omnia 7 last Monday, and while it was amazing for the first couple of days, once the novelty factor of the UI wore off I've been getting more and more android withdrawal symptoms.

Don't get me wrong, its a very nice phone but for me let down by the OS. WP7 looked like the perfect OS but after a weeks use its just not right for me. I'll list my personal pros and cons:

PROS

•Keyboard is great

•Live tiles are a joy and really set your phone apart from the rest

•Internet Explorer is great

CONS

•Battery life is dreadful

•No flash support

•Lack of C&P

•Wifi connectivity issues, can't use FB without data connection on even with full WiFi lock, same issue with IE and twitter

•Lack of customisation options

•Not really practical, takes too long to get simple things done

•Lack of apps on marketplace (I know its only young) and the games just cost too much, i mean come on £5.99 for assassins creed?

I know some of the cons will be fixed with updates but I just can't see myself loving this phone like I did my previous one. I'll be phoning Orange tomorrow and hopefully exchanging this for the HTC Desire HD, which my friend has and is an amazing phone.

I might come back to WP7 or WP8 or whatever the update is called, as once the necessary functionality is there coupled with the lovely UI, it'll be and OS to be reckoned with.

Peace WP7 users. I may see you again some day :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
While I still find my HD7 an excellent WP7 phone, and still love WP7, your choice of alternatives is excellent. I'm using DesireHD on my HD2 and it is a sweet build. I love the skin feature. The "Wildflower" skin is one of my favorites followed by "Metal". The hardware looks sweet too.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hassler:
:)

good luck

especially with DesireHD

but beware of battery of it

it's much more dreadful compare to WP7 phone :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] wwfc:
Btw im planning on buying a 1500mah battery for the desire HD (fiver from eBay), hopefully the battery life won't be as awful as reviewers make out :P thanks for your comments :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Ren13B:
CONS

•Battery life is dreadful

Compared to what? My Samsung Focus gets better battery life than the HTC Fuze it replaced and I do a lot more with it.

•No flash support

It's coming

•Lack of C&P

It's coming

•Wifi connectivity issues, can't use FB without data connection on even with full WiFi lock, same issue with IE and twitter

•Lack of customisation options

What do you want to customize?

•Not really practical, takes too long to get simple things done

Is this a joke? Give examples.

•Lack of apps on marketplace (I know its only young) and the games just cost too much, i mean come on £5.99 for assassins creed?

Nothing Microsoft can do about pricing and has nothing to do with the platform.
[Windows Phone 7 General] zukа:
Good luck. I can guarantee you the Desire HD has a worse display, worse battery life and is a lot slower due to HTC's android bloatware. I had one for a few weeks but couldnt stand it.

Anyway, if you like it better, then chances are WP7 isn't for you.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
If what the other posters are saying about the DesireHD is true, I highly recommend obtaining an HTC HD2 and using the DesireHD build with it instead of the actual DesireHD. You get all the goodness of DesireHD with better battery life and a better screen. Everything works on it too. Plus, if you get bored, you can make it into any of the other Android phones out which have a build made of them. You also get Nexus S Gingerbread goodness if you want.

The builds in my sig are pretty much perfection.
[Windows Phone 7 General] wspaw:
I have to say this is surprising. I find getting anything done is faster than any other platform.

There are already over 5000 apps!
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
that's not entirely true. MS needs to open up the system a bit more by providing a lot more APIs for the different parts of the phone. PIM, Video recording, and Compass are just some examples where there are no current APIs yet, but when introduce open up a whole lot of new possibilities for apps.

And as for games, you need to look at it in terms of age of the game. Acreed is an example where on the iOS it's a lot cheaper, but that's because it's been on the iOS market for 2+ years, and only just entered WP market. Give it 2 years and it will be the same price. probably less time.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Purple11:
Main screen. I want SPB Pocket plus style contact list, message and calendar right on my main screen without having to need to swipe and flip and tap 45 seconds to get to it.

I want pocket informant style calendar, not WP7 calendar because its not customizable, color coding and tons and tons of other things i could do in PI8 but not WP7 calendar.

I want ringtones customized.

I want many more customization which i dont want to write in detail because it will be 3-4 pages long for me.

Were you even a slight power user of WM?? Than you will have common sense to realize how much customization is lacking in WP7. Their is nothing to tweak in this phone, you have to swallow what they give you.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emuneee:
I am eager to see how much progress is made when the first update hits early next year. Maybe they give some details at CES or MWC.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
I wonder how many of us joined here out of necessity because, frankly, stock winmo is crap. we had to tweak and customize it just to use the damn thing. With wp7, the urge to tweak isn't there for me.

I'd rather be watching video on netflix, or slingplayer, or my videos, or playing any of the wp7 games that are 10x better than the winmo counterparts.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Jim Coleman:
What, you mean the main screen which is infinitely customizable with your own live tiles from any app, arranged how you want them, including websites, contacts, bands, albums, notes and just about anything else you can think of?

Well I'm sure if SPB were to write the apps, the live tiles you want would be made available on your nice customizable main screen. Talk to SPB, not to XDA. And what's this about <i>"need to swipe and flip and tap 45 seconds to get to it"</i>? I have no idea what you're talking about. Your main screen is one contiguous flowing block. Please explain.

Again, talk to the app maker. There's no reason why they couldn't make an app that does what you want. Why are you blaming the OS?

This is coming in an update but I'm sure you can survive in the meantime - it you *want* to. But I think your mind is already made up *not* to.

Ooh getting a bit vague now, maybe you ran out of stuff. ;)

Personally, I've been a mammoth user of WM for years, and yes I cutomized it a lot, primarily because I had to to get it how I wanted it. Amazingly, WP7 is perfect for me out of the box. I really don't find any great need to customize it beyond installing the apps I want and arranging my tiles how I want them.

It sounds to me like you're addicted to customization for the sake of it, and I'd suggest you get yourself an Android phone which you can tinker with to your heart's content, while the rest of us get on with living our lives to the full. :cool:

After all, what could be better than an OS made by an advertising company?
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Rofl @ last sentence/question. What an awesome way to end an awesome post. I think I woke up the neighbors, LOL.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Xylias:
You know why they customized WM? To make it useable. WP7 doesn't need the customization because it is already useful.

The same argument can be applied to Android. Why do OEMs put skins on Android? Well, they think the UX and the UI are lacking, that's why.

Why fix what's not broken?
[Windows Phone 7 General] zukа:
+1 to what these guys said. The reason customisation is limited is because - in the view of the vast majority of people that purchase a WP7 device - it's perfectly usable as is.

If you want a hobby phone you can flash, root, hardSPL, tweak, skin, tinker and waste literally tens of hours of your time on, an android phone is the way to go.

If you want a powerful smartphone that gets you "in, out and back where you need to be", WP7 is a good bet.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hukkguai:
I remember when I first got my G1 and there only like 500 apps on it which might have been an overestimate at that point in time.
[Windows Phone 7 General] FL5:
Personally, coming from a Tilt2, I found my Focus to be flat-out incredible. Yes, I did spend a lot of time tweaking the old Tilt2, and yes, a good bit of it was recreational and not just out of necessity. However, I would not have been pushed into rom flashing if the stock rom weren't so bad on it. It was a laggy, crashy beast, and required a ton of work to be something that was not embarrassingly slow.

The Focus is, out of the box, incredibly and effortlessly fast. I don't care that I can't tweak more things in it because, frankly, it is so fast at doing everything that a couple extra swipes here or there doesn't bug me. Yes, it really does take the hobby aspect out of my phone. If you want that in your primary device, then Android (or as has been mentioned, an HD2) is the gizmo for you. I'm personally tempted to pick up a Streak, now that the unlocked ones have had a price dip, just to play around with it. However, my WP7 device will remain as my primary phone for my day-to-day usage.
[Windows Phone 7 General] adesonic:
Btw, just checked, facebook works on wifi only with data connection turned off, just checked this on my hd7
[Windows Phone 7 General] wwfc:
I did think about a HD2, but I can only change to what phones I was offered when I initially upgraded, my options were :

-HTC Desire HD

-Samsung Omnia 7 (obviously)

-HTC Mozart

-Samsung galaxy s

-Blackberry Torch

-Nokia N8

I want android, so really its between the desire HD or the galaxy s, But the galaxy s has 2.1 out of the box while the desire HD has 2.2 and sense which I loved on my HTC hero and looks even better on the desire HD. And I want to root and install a custom oc'able kernel to boost the performance.

For me the screen is nicer on the desire HD than it is on my Omnia 7, which may sound wrong but even though the res is the same due to the squareness of the Omnia 7 The pixels seem more visible and the samoled screen is too saturated.
[G Tablet General] drandroid:
Hi, I installed the latest firmware upgrade. The unit runs fine... excellent. Can we run alternate keyboards while still running a stock G tablet?
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
You can but have to manually..

Look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=856476&highlight=keyboards
[G Tablet General] drandroid:
Do I have to root the tablet to do this?

I saw that post. The user is running TNT Lite on a rooted GTablet. First, do I need to root the unit? Does that wipe out the latest update? I'd like to keep this as stock as possible since I'm happy with the latest update... but I want my swype etc... Thanks for your input.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
I don't think you would need root to push the keyboard file. Only issue would be if the folder permissions needed to be changed. Then you might need root. Root would not do anything to your tablet as far as updates, etc. Just lets you have access you normally would not. Kind of like being the administrator on a windows machine...
[G Tablet General] drandroid:
Which root prog would you recommend?

That's what I was hoping to hear. Rooting has no effect on the rom other than allowing me to get under the hood... great. I tried to copy the apk to the system/app and I didn't have permission. What you recommend to root the tablet? Thanks.
[G Tablet General] Sprdtyf350:
Z4root is what most use. I don't recall if it is in the market or not. It is an apk that you install and then run. You can use Root Explorer to change the permissions after that.

I don't run stock so I have to go by memory so sorry if I sound kind of vague...
[G Tablet General] drandroid:
No luck with OTA and swype

Tried to load swype (after rooting) on a Viewsonic ota rom. No go, many force close issues. I dropped the apk in the system/app directory, changed to permissions to match the others, rebooted and nothing. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.
[G Tablet General] XANAVirus:
Hiya!

I was wondering about this too.

However, my problem is that I can't find the apk for my preferred keyboard (SwiftKey Pro). I searched for it using Astro File Manager and it doesn't come up anywhere (the data files for it sure do, though. Just not the apk!).

In addition, I am not sure how to get a root file manager on to my GTablet so that I can copy it over (in Astro I found the system/app files, but I can't do anything there since I can't get root access in there with Astro).

I've looked for a root file manger in AppBrain and found one, but the Market does not see it (cannot be found) so I am stuck on how to get root access in the system/app place.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oni1jz:
Guys.. i installed a stock 2.2 froyo rom with jk2 on my vibrant and the video quality was excelent! But now i have nero v2 rom with jl4 and my HD recording quality is way too loud and noisy. Has anyone else experienced this? How do i fix this?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oni1jz:
Anyone??
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] octoberriot:
I put together a quick little status bar theme for Ice Glacier. i hadn't seen one yet for sense, sorry if there already is one and i wasted my time. =P

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10172878&postcount=2327

I've made a stock animation version as per request.

something i want to do but dont know how is have the pop up menu black and the menu text white, like in actual ginger bread, but cant figure it out. if anyone is willing to help, let me know :)
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] stratax:
will this work on desire hd sense? or just expresso?
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] RocketVOL:
very nice. where did you get that wallpaper?
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] Jaskwith:
Looks promising, but I have a couple questions.

1. If I wanted a numerical battery, could I flash this first, then a battery mod over it? Or would that mess **** up?

2. Is there a way to "unflash" this in case I don't like it, or is the only way to create a backup and restore it?

EDIT 3. Would using a GBread theme increase battery life, because of the black backdrops on menus and etc?
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] mrpanic7:
yes to your 1st question, no to the 2nd you would have to wipe, and no way to the 3rd.

great job on this by the way!!!!
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] stratax:
only thing that doesnt work for regular sense is the battery
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] smonme:
I like the theme so far, makes iced glacier very smooth
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] nccu_eagles:
could you make this theme for iced glacier WITH stock animations? :confused:
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] octoberriot:
You can find stock animations in the first post in the ice glacier thread
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] nccu_eagles:
yes I know there's a "stock animations" zip on the rom page. but it doesn't have the gingerbread theme. I hate how the iced glacier rom pages transition. its weird and annoying :mad: i want the gingerbread icons but the stock transitions... :confused:
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] octoberriot:
i see, ill see what i can do
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] nccu_eagles:
Great! I will definitely send a donation your way!
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] kyokyle:
Is it possible to add numerucal battery values to the battery in the theme?
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] octoberriot:
Update first post with a stock animation theme
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] stratax:
When i put flash the circle number battery icon over this it replaces the whole theme. is there a way to make that not happen? like.. flash another battery icon over this
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] nccu_eagles:
thanks dude!!!! donation sent :D
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] octoberriot:
I'm still learning all this so any tips anyone might provide are also always welcome.

Ill look into getting a numerical value for those who want it.

The reason is that all the files are in the framework. When you flash the round battery, it also includes all the files required for the framework apk to work which overwrite the theme.

If you link me a circle battery that you like, I can see if I can make a special one for you.

Thank you so much :)
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] TrueBlue_Drew:
Need some help?

Hit me up and I will help you. Hit me up with a PM.
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] stratax:
lol i just found out the only thing that acutally works are the animations in regular sense. i thought the other stuff worked but it actually just shows green icons that.. stay green and the time doesnt change hahah

is there any chance you could port this to desire hd sense?
[Windows Mobile Themes] jovalleau:
Featured in this video? This is exactly what I've been looking for... I found a download link, but both it and the dev site were down :(. No info in the youtube link either.

SO close but yet so far away. This is a theme I would pay money for! :mad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NARseyrR6w

I haven't seen much else come close to this except for my current (heavily modified) version, which lacks some authenticity.

Any help hunting this down would be greatly appreciated!
[Windows Mobile Themes] mtglo:
Xda has this crazy, ground breaking function called "Search"

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=530269&highlight=Windows
[Windows Mobile Themes] blueheyka:
i think this tread that you means

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=530269
[Windows Mobile Themes] jovalleau:
I've searched all over the forums, and I've come across that one, but it is NOT the same theme that's featured in the video.

Unless there's something in that thread that I'm missing?
[Windows Mobile Themes] marco-23:
This theme is not on this forum. My web site is cancelled and this is a reason why you can not download my theme. You are lucky man, I found something in my PC :)

VGA:

htp://rapidshare.com/files/439946676/WIN7_VGA.ZIP

WVGA:

htp://rapidshare.com/files/439946828/WIN7_WVGA.ZIP

If you will have some problem with install theme send me a private message.

Please correct htp: on http: in download link
[Windows Mobile Themes] jovalleau:
This theme is incredible! How did you manage this? Did you do it just for yourself? Why did you remove it from download, or why don't you have the file hosted here? It's amazing, and it is the truest representation of Win7 on a phone that I've found. It has everything.

Thank you so much for this! It is looking and running beautifully. A thousand times thank you!