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[Nook Color General] KidJoe:
johnny15,

In my mind I questioned 160kbps, 48khz settings... and even the mixdown to Dolby which the pre-set in post one seems to set it to.

I mean, I can hear a difference between an MP3 encoded as 128kbps and 160kbps, but not many around me can. I can also tell the difference between 160 and 192kbps Mp3's.

But for my ears (both headphones and aux input on car), 128kbps, 44khz and Stereo are fine for portable movies...

But I can understand why your asking about the settings. In Theory, unless you are using the highest quality head phones, or connecting to a surround system, the only reason those settings could be suggested is because...

1. that is what is the optimum or recommended for the nook in its manual or the audio chips' manual.

or

2. That is what was found to work for playback on the Nook, so lets stick with what works...

But correct me if I'm here... Isn't the video portion of these files what takes up the most space? i.e. lowering the audio quality doesn't make the resulting file that much smaller.
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
KidJoe,

Thanks for the reply!

You're right, the video does take up most of the space, but I just like to get the most out of my files.....a good mix of decent picture and audio but also keeping it as small as I can. I think I had 20 movies on my 16GB card (in my EVO) and after messing around with the audio settings and noticing very little difference in sound quality, I lower my settings and got a few more movies loaded onto my microSD. I know, I know.....that may movies is really over kill, but i had a mix of movies loaded for me, my kid, and my wife. :)
[Nook Color General] sudhirkhanger:
Thanks i never made it default.
[Nook Color General] jdmartin:
Using the posted Nook preset, I'm not having any luck getting a video to run successfully on a standard Nook, unless I have the video width and size set to 800 x 400 resolution or less.

How are you folks getting larger video formats to run successfully?

Jim
[Nook Color General] sudhirkhanger:
Do we really need 2 pass?

Update:- I tried Mpeg and H.264, 1 pass, 2 pass and first turbo and 190 and 96 but couldn't find huge difference. Mpeg encoded real fast like in few minutes compared to 2 hours taken by h.264 at 2 pass. I converted a 400 mb non-hi def video in mkv format.
[Nook Color General] sudhirkhanger:
Why does nook present scales dimension to 1274x720? Shouldn't it be 854x480?
[Nook Color General] zeiss74:
i've encoded a DVD about 15 times today to test the settings, and here are the best settings for me:

import Nook profile from post 1 and set to default.

Leave picture size/anamorph alone (720xZZZ)

Change video to constant quality, RF 22

Change audio to stereo, 128, DRC = 4 (leave AAC)

left everything else alone (filters, advanced, subtitles, chapters)

this took about 90 mins, for the movie i was doing 1:50 runtime was about 605 MB.

even with DRC = 4, movie was still pretty quiet

when i did mp3, i would often get no sound out of the nook (not sure why, it plays mp3s just fine)

when i did ffmpeg, it looked atrocious, but was 4x faster and 2x smaller.
[Nook Color General] tyang88:
Which OS?

I've been going through this thread and pulling my hair out because i can't get the video to play even close to smooth. Finally it occured to me that my limitation may be that I am running Honeycomb. Are the video test results regarding "smooth" playback on Honeycomb, Froyo, or stock Nook Color version of the OS?
[Nook Color General] poofyhairguy:
Works on Stock and Froyo, not CM7 or Honeycomb.
[Nook Color General] zeiss74:
yeah, i meant to add "stock NC" to my post but i forgot to.
[Nook Color General] fpga_guy:
Using the iPod touch setting with handbrake works fine for movies on the NC.
[Nook Color General] Mikroft:
Honeycomb doesn't support hardware video acceleration yet. That's why.
[Nook Color General] simonduz:
Presets are invalid.

I tried to use the import function for my version of Handbrake (0.9.5 (2011010300)) and received the error that the preset file appears to be invalid or from an older version of Handbrake.

Can you provide a new version or can someone provide a copy of their export? I am using WinXP 32 SP3 with .NET 3.5 installed.

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
That's odd. I used the presets here (zip file in the first post) and it loaded fine. I'm running Win7 x64 but my version of Handbrake shows up as the same version you have. Did you download the zip file in the first post?
[Nook Color General] simonduz:
Yes same zip. Accepted all the defaults when I installed Handbrake. Maybe I need to reboot, after that I will try the entire process again.

** Edit **

Yeah, user error. After I reboot it all works fine. Sorry for the false alarm.
[Nook Color General] argie:
I used the NC preset you posted and recoded an AVI into H.264.

The resulting file, with the extension MP4, cannot be played with WMP, Winamp or the NC, it errors out.

Is there some special treatment required for AVIs ?
[Nook Color General] dvcbwvfans:
Utilized the NC setting in the first post to try to convert over a couple of my kids disney dvds to an MP4 file for a stock NC viewing. The video came out very pixilated, assuming protection on the dvd may have caused this? Does Handbrake have the ability to override the protection on dvds? If so, what else may be causing the image issue?

I tried the same disc on FreeMake Video converter and had no picture issue like I did with the Handbrake conversion.
[Nook Color General] lellouchftw:
Used the preset on the first page but changed some options:

Audio to 96 kb/s instead of 160. Like some have said, 160 is overkill. Don't forget that AAC is much more efficient than mp3, so 96kb/s mp3 is ≠ 96kb/s AAC.

Apart from that, changed to constant quality (22), and removed the second pass of converting. IMHO that's a waste of time >.<

Will be experimenting with the x264 options to see if I can get nook to play videos with higher settings.
[Nook Color General] behic:
Any way to make the volume a bit higher through Handbrake? I read the DRC setting is supposed to do that, but even at a setting of 4, there is no difference.
[Nook Color General] silentbushido:
I've been having success with adding in anime subtitles with handbrake, if you go to the "Subtitles" tab -> "Track:" drop down list you should see the "English (SSA)" option, select that option -> checkmark the checkbox "Burned In" -> then you click on the "Add" button, and that should do the trick when you convert from mkv with subtitles to mp4 with burned on subtitles on video.

Good luck!

****If this helps you save time or helps you in any way, please consider clicking "thanks" below! :)
[Nook Color General] nspeer:
I have closed and reopened Handbrake several times (and loaded the Nook profile before loading the DVD) and each time it wants to write a M4V file even though MP4 is set in the profile. How in the world do I get it to stop trying to write a M4V file!!

thanks,

Neil
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
Go into the Tools --> Options menu.

Under the "General" tab, uncheck the option at the bottom: "Always use iPod/iTunes friendly file extension (.m4v) for MP4"
[Nook Color General] nspeer:
I cannot get a good video file! Each time I get an extremely pixelated video with choppy sounding audio. I am using the settings used by other people in this thread. My computer is a Core i7 PC with 8gb RAM and the rip of Avatar (almost 3 hours long) took only 30 minutes, if that's a clue. Anyone have any suggestions?
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
I used to use these settings (found in this thread) but found out there was something just not right with them. I would try to adjust the RF quality, but my bitrate always came out to be about the same and just wasn't right. Here's what I use....it's a modified version of the iphone/ipod touch settings.
[Nook Color General] nspeer:
Thanks, I'll try it now, although it doesn't initially look all that different. I'll let you know
[Nook Color General] nspeer:
For some reason, even though it's not checked in Tools>Options>general, your profile always wants to write an M4v file instead of MP4. What's up with that?
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
It's not all that much different than the built in preset that I mentioned, but I wanted to take advantage of the NC screen size and also was willing to deal with slightly longer compression times due to my increased reference frames. Slight changes go a long way IMHO. Again, I started with the preset from here, but found I had issues with it in the end when trying to increase PQ (especially dealing with any type of HD source content).
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
Not sure what's up there. I might be wrong, but I think you can just rename it after the encode is done. I've done this in the past...
[Nook Color General] nspeer:
Johnny 15, thanks for trying to help. I have tried renaming in the past, but it seemed like it didn't work. I'll give it another go and see if it works.
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
Figured out the .m4v versus .mp4 issue. If you're using my preset, uncheck the box for "create chapter markers" on the chapters tab.

Otherwise, chapter markers, AC3 audio and SRT subtitles will all force the .m4v file extension even if the box in Tools --> Options is unchecked.

Good luck...hope this helps.
[Nook Color General] nspeer:
Johnny 15,

well, this time it ripped as an Mp4 in about 38 minutes. However, it's 4.8gb in size and will not open with Quicktime, RealPlayer, or Windows Media player. So, I'm still stumped!

Anyone?
[Nook Color General] epajet:
Thanks

Thanks for the Handbrake profiles, very useful.

EA
[Nook Color General] ewr2san:
Thanks!

Works flawlessly with Handbrake 0.9.5 on Natty Narwahl.
[Nook Color General] azsl1326:
I used the nook.plist from the OP and imported it into Handbrake. However, I can not seem to get the width/height to change from 720x480. Everytime I change the width to 854 it instantly reverts back to 720.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

Thanks, in advance.
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
You're using the "Strict" setting for Anamorphic. Set it to loose. This should allow you to change it.
[Nook Color General] Altair78:
Much Thanks

Can't wait to try these. Thanks a bunch.
[Nook Color General] kemetblk:
Thanks for the preset, it worked great! I was able to convert a 1080p mkv to an m4v that the NC played back just fine. The audio was very low from the built-in speaker, but the sound was awesome through my headphones!

Handbrake 0.9.5

Win7 H.P. 64-bit

Core i7 2600

12GB RAM
[Nook Color General] 5mudg3r:
Unsure if this has been mentioned or not. I use a galaxyS and Archos 605 dont want to have to encode twice and the sound on the archos is a little low. A problem with the device its always been there. I downloaded a nightly today version SVN4311. It has DB gain upto 20DB.

I ported all my profiles over to this version and added +10DB to a run of encodes and its greatly improved the archos sound. Anything over 10DB seemed to add a little distortion so stuck with it. Maybe not nook 100% related but i did notice reading this thread a couple of people mention low sound etc.

Hope its of some help. If you wanted to try it just google Handbrake nightly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joedesu1:
Hi all. Im having a strange problem with flashing roms. I am not new to this and have been problem free for a while. I went from fresh 3.4 to myns rls4. Then went to fresh 3.5 and tried to go back to myn from there. I use clockworkmod and recently updated to 3.0.0.0. I have tried flashing the roms in rom manager and by booting up in recovery. I was able to load a backup and am currently set up as follows:

unrevoked forever (used 3.21 before reading forever might fix this issue)

fresh 3.4

netarchy kernel

bootloader screen

supersonic evt3 ship s-off

hboot-0.97.0000

micro-041f

touch panel-atmelc03_16ac

radio-2.15.00.09.01

Heres what it says when I try to install any rom. All roms do and say the same thing.

clockworkmod recovery v3.0.0.0

installing

finding update package

opening update package

installing update...

installation aborted.

This is from flashing while in recovery using volume down and power button method. Any advice?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aimbdd:
Wrong place to post.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alcangel64:
i think that clockwork 3.0 is causing problems
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greenfieldan:
At OP: I Clockwork 3.0 appears to have some bugs. Hold on tight.

@aimbdd: You're not a mod, nor did you help at all (in answering the question or telling him what you did). You're actually FAR worse than he is. If you're not going to post something productive, please don't post.

On that note, this question should be in the Q&A section for future reference :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joedesu1:
I apologize for my ignorance on the matter but I agree with the above statement that it takes more/equal time to respond like this then it would to direct me in a productive place. Ill be more careful next time
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joedesu1:
How can i delete this thread?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david11c:
I had to switch to RA to flash a new rom. I couldn't even downgrade to the clockwork recovery to 2.5. I was having the same problems as OP with Clockwork 3.0.0.0.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbond007:
I had to do the same. I'm using RA as a result
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cruise350:
Reading clockworkmods tweets it appears the new clockwork is only for the new hboot and doesn't work with the older hboots. Install amon ra 1.8 and you should be golden. You won't be able to use rom manager after you install aman ra.
[Galaxy 3 General] kenblat:
Using JPA now, just wanna know that dose our JPA firmware support NFS mount out of the box?

CIFS module work great @ 2.1 but still no update for 2.2 so just wonder that can we do the NFS mount with this babe @ froyo

TIA
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mr_Chupon:
Hi, I was wondering if someone had the new 2.2 UGJK3 from bell for download. I've seen in the post of stock firmware a UGJK3 but it was under the section USA and was from november. What im looking for is the new bell UGJK3.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] danial.aw:
the new bell rom is JL2 not JK3... which is a few months old i believe...there is a guide and attached files here in the general section with both
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Biffin:
I have a i9000m and I flashed Darky's Rom ontop of SpeedMod and everything is running great. On the about phone screen, it says baseband version "i9000xxjpy" instead of J2l when I was running only Speedmod. Has J2L been replaced by xxjpy?

The only reason I ask is that J2L was supposed to have fixed the internal sd corruption according to Bell.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android.francis:
Darkyy's latest ROM is using the latest Froyo 2.2.1 firmware for Europe.

Flashing that ROM will convert you to JPY.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Biffin:
Ahh that makes sense, thanks for the info.
[Epic 4G General] tmacgarris6727:
no GB roms for epic 4g yet why
[Epic 4G General] dizidi:
We're waiting for u to cook one, hurry up before Windows Phone 7 comes out on Sprint.
[Epic 4G General] bsutton:
we dont even have official froyo yet. QUIT WORRYING ABOUT GINGERBREAD.

*EDIT: i need to change my sig
[Epic 4G General] Sh0wNuF:
Because you touch yourself at night
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Samsung sees you when you're sleeping, knows when you're awake. Knows if you've been bad or good so stop touching yourself for goodness sake.
[Epic 4G General] blackdragon79:
lol nice glad to see some comedy on this forum
[Epic 4G General] tmacgarris6727:
I'm already on 2.2 rom and rooted
[Epic 4G General] warlar12:
There is no official froyo, and Ginger just came out in the recent past. Keep your panties and take some deep breathes. It will be put soon enough...just have to wait
[Epic 4G General] jeffyv2:
Im already on honeycomb buddy your late!

sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] kenvan19:
Seriously...this joke was funny a month ago. C'mon people try to be at least a little original.
[Epic 4G General] dfitzpatrick:
Actually they just recently dumped the nexus s source.... I'm surevit could be done pretty easily since they are both galaxy s phones
[Epic 4G General] richse:
Wow, if you're sure it can be done easily from the Nexus S dump then it must be true. Someone who can make a statement like that must have the expertise to whip up some drivers for our CDMA radio, wimax, and all the other stuff that is different in the Epic from the Nexus S. Let me know when all this "pretty easy" work is done so I can flash it.
[Epic 4G General] noobnl:
it can be done easily :P all we need is cm7 source done
[Epic 4G General] richse:
Sure, if easy means that you and all the other super smart guys on the CM teams spend time working on it. As for the OP, I'm guessing he hasn't been committing any code.
[Epic 4G General] digiblur:
Wp7?? No thanks. That OS is worse than the original Edge only iPhone...that's pretty bad.
[Epic 4G General] DiGi760:
I was on honeycomb when it was on vinyl.
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
Worst thread of 2010?
[Epic 4G General] wjsmaggle:
Badass.
[Epic 4G General] dfitzpatrick:
Angry much?
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
this is already the worst thread of 2011
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
i love hipster nerds
[Epic 4G General] copout221:
I'm running the most recent prototype leak of HORNET and it rocks. Now that is a cool name for an OS.
[Epic 4G General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
I dont think you are aware of how dead the epic development is.

Sent from my Epic that craves frozen yogurt
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
They've also had official Froyo for a lot longer than we have. Oh wait, we don't even have an official Froyo yet.
[Epic 4G General] tsperez:
Sad...

It's sad but there is one positive thing I can say about the Epic... it's the most stable phone I have ever had (even with the unofficial 2.2).

tsp
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] m2]iceman:
I searched alot actually but either I searched wrong or there just isnt anything about it - is there a widged or app or something that shows how many mA the phone is draining? I see this written on dev's rom posts but I dont know how to measure it and how to check for it. I guess its something easy but I cant finnd it :o
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
currentwidget

free from market

you can get a transparent version by looking in the general Android Themes and Apps section, and looking in the transparent widgets thread

(not HD2 section, just general Android Themes and Apps
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] technoob:
Battery current widget is also good.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] technoob:
Sorry, that's battery monitor widget, not current. It seems to work fine as well.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] m2]iceman:
Thank you!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] m2]iceman:
However I am getting ~300mA drainage when I turn on the phone w/o doing anything. How do they get 6mA ??? And how to check how much it is when the phone is sleeping ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] technoob:
The battery monitor widget has a history you can watch, other than that I'm not sure.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
You can set CurrentWidget to update every 60 seconds. Leave the screen off for more than a minute, then check it as soon as you turn the phone back on
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 3c:
Same with Battery Monitor Widget, actually defaults to refresh data every 60 seconds and save history every 5 minutes, giving you average consumption and much lower battery usage! Which is quite important for such tool, isn't it?

Other than test I've just run some tests and BMW consumes less when set with the same settings! See screen-shot!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lukesan:
Funny one.

I think that maybe these monitoring tools can be the issue of these high drainage things. lol

I had my battery monitoring tool set to 60sec and write it to a log on the sd-card.

Waking up the card and writing to it might might cause these higher values.

Trying to set them to 5 to 10 minutes at this moment to check this theory.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 3c:
AH wondering the same too :)

One sure thing at one minute it will keep your phone waking-up all the time... then depends for how long...

On my various tests I always noticed draining pikes at very irregular intervals suggesting another app is also consuming... So I usually end-up setting plane mode to ensure nothing should consume and should get a steady 2 or 3 mA!

Now I'm trying Process Monitor Widget to see who's actually consuming the battery... but the app is still in beta and not yet linked to Battery Monitor Widget... waiting for that!

My last test shows pikes of activities every 30-45 minutes (?), whereas battery shows drainage pikes every 4 to 7 minutes (???)! Still searching...

In there various HTC and Google background process are actives... not sure to what extent yet.

Now testing, same setup and plane mode...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hd2k10:
If you're running NAND it's probably the 60mA bug you're seeing --- any Notification (Call/SMS/MMS/Email) will draw 60mA until read.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 3c:
No high drainage

Base on you comment I decided to start testing 2 of those tools: Battery & Process Monitor Widget from the Market.

Phone was in plane mode and apps where recording every minute for 3 hours.

In the first-screen shot you can see drain pikes every 4 minutes (3 to 4) or so... at 6:58, 7:03, 7:07, 7:13, 7:17, 7:20...

You can look at CPU utilization, on other screen-shots, total time shows how much CPU was used during recording per application.

Even thouh the system is in plane mode and there's nothing to run, you can see the Android system running who knows what every 3-5 minutes or so...

I found some explanations with 2 background processes doing who knows what too :)

For the others it's still a mystery to me. But sure enough some of the drain is due to the monitoring tools...

The 3.48s consumed by the battery monitor is pretty good over a 3 hours recording...

So I will make 2 further tests:

- first with only battery monitoring...

- second monitoring also processes but every 5 minutes
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 3c:
I got similar issues with a previous NAND build, that was awful... 50mA minimum in plane mode!?

THen I switch to MDJ's build... see previous post, very good now :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hd2k10:
Gonna switch to MDJ tonight myself, I've managed to find fixes for everything but the 60mA drain and I'm too anal about performance/battery to let it go any more. Time to switch, unfortunately.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] 3c:
Battery Monitor Widget and Process Monitor Widget

Back again with some more tests!

It turns out that both those widgets don't seem to impact battery drain, at least not in a noticeable manner.

3 tests in plane mode:

Test 1: BMW alone, 1 minute logging interval... steady 2mA!

Test 2: BMW+PMW, 1 minute logging interval... steady 2mA!

Test 3: BMW 1 minute, PMW 10 seconds, steady 2mA!

In all tests phone goes in deep-sleep mode as usual!

I have attached a few screen-shot of test 2 :)

Screen-shot 11 shows CPU frequency during test 2, starting/ending with screen-on interactive, with 2 peaks in between when I switched screen on to visually check mA.

This showed me that the app I'm using to set CPU max frequency to 245MHz during screen-off is not working :(
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobsbbq:
Just wondering if anyone has been able to turn off the trackpad wake? I find that when in the belt holster it frequently turns itself on from the trackpad.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flipsidiaz:
Well if you are rooted and running CyanogenMod there is a setting to disable track pad wake. I don't think there is a option on stock etc.