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[Nook Color General] majakat:
how do you view your kindle books on the nook then without rooting?
[Nook Color General] majakat:
Bluetooth will be unlocked in the next root it looks like, and I bet FM is not far behind!

For me, There is now way to justify spending 800 on a tab, I am a student and this is perfect in addition to my phone as a communication/information solution. If I had a ton of free spending money maybe I would feel differently, but for now - this is a great tool and I am VERY thankful to those at XDA working on maximizing the potential of this very nice machine.

Catherine
[Nook Color General] hoodoomagic:
I bought a Nook to tide me over until the next gen rolls out, and I have to admit I'm very pleasantly surprised by what the Nook can do once its been rooted. The only things I miss right now is flash and swype. If I need mobile data I simply tether it to my Nexus. Having GPS, cameras, and all that is neat, but practically speaking I'd much rather use my phone for all of those things.
[Nook Color General] teknikk7:
Nice. This assesment is spot on.

Former GTab owner here.

--robert
[Nook Color General] teknikk7:
Really?? Really? Wow, my EVO running CM 6.1 smokes the NC in every way.

Time to switch ROM's buddy...
[Nook Color General] norkoastal:
Agreed.. CM lately is smooth buttah... NC will catch up once 2.2 is tightened up.. Cant wait.
[Nook Color General] HotShotAzn:
I find myself not gaming much on the NC. Why? Because I game on my Galaxy S more. And if I have have passed certain levels on my Galaxy S, its a pain the butt to move that save state to the NC just to game there. I have my phone on me all the time. My NC is usually in my bag.

That being said, I do love playing the PSX emu on it. The screen makes it a joy to play on. Sims 3 Collectors Edition (from my Galaxy) looks amazing on it. I let my daughter play games on it and its a great distraction tool.
[Nook Color General] norkoastal:
Good point. Hopefully developers will allow game saved state to "follow" the app on different devices with an option selected.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] henry_gonzlz:
I can not launch the Touch Flo 3D it say to Tap the window but it does not launch. Does some type of reset need to be performed? If so what is the correct procedure?

Thanks
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] warlordxxx:
Did you do anything before it got to this stage such as install a new app or theme ?

If you did then try one of the threads listed here http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe...S3Dg&sqi=2&ved=0CCEQrQIwAA&fp=fb65bc885a9abf7

If you didn't do anything and it just won't start then try a soft reboot (take off the battery cover and there is a red reset button under the stylus)

As a last resort and i mean last as this will lose anything that you haven't backed up including contacts stored to phone , programs installed to phone and messages etc you can do a hard reset.

Before doing a hard reset i strongly recommend you have a look around the forum and see if you can find a backup utility that will back everything up to your pc and will save you time and having to lose everything.(can't recommend one to use as i really don't have all that much to backup on mine so have never bothered)

To do a hard reset

1. With the device turned off, press and hold the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons, then briefly press the POWER button.

2. Continue pressing the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons until you see a message on the screen telling you all data will be lost.

3. Release the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons.

4. Press the VOLUME UP button to perform the hard reset, or press any other button to cancel the reset.

A hard reset will restore all factory settings but please note this will remove anything that you have added to the ROM that is on there from programs to contacts and messages.
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
I created a preset in handbrake for the nook color. I've used it for several videos and they've all worked really well.

I'm not sure how to export the presets exactly. what I've done is copy my user_presets.xml file and rename it to nook_preset.txt (forums won't let me upload an xml file.)

It's the only preset in the file, so you should be able to add the preset node to your existing user_presets.xml or replace the file completely if you haven't defined any yourself.

Here's a step by step:

1) locate your presets file (this link handbrake presets will help you.)

2) rename it from user_presets.xml to user_presets.xml.bak

3) copy one of my attached files (use 0.9.5 for the latest version of handbrake) to the same directory

4) rename it to user_presets.xml

If you had any presets already, this will remove them. If you want them back, just copy them from user_presets.xml.bak into the new user_presets.xml.

UPDATE: The above instructions are not necessary. The newest version of Handbrake includes an import option under the presets menu. I've attached a zip file that contains the nook.plist file to import. This should work on all platforms.

UPDATE 1/9/2011: Added revised preset for Handbrake version 0.9.5

UPDATE 1/10/2011: Added step-by-step instructions.

UPDATE 2/9/2011: Added a plist file.

UPDATE 2/27/2011: New nook.zip - Added resolution and aspect ratio settings to the plist file
[Nook Color General] techboydino:
Can you list some of the changes that you used. I'd like to compare. Thx.
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
I used the regular ipod setting, but I changed the resolution to 854x480. I turned off all video processing, and set the audio to 48 bit / 128kbps aac.

UPDATE: I forgot that I also changed the video bitrate. Upping it to 1100 instead of 700[? I don't remember.]
[Nook Color General] epakrat75:
Wouldn't using the iPad preset and changing the 1024x768 to 1024x600 be better?
[Nook Color General] bigtourist:
good idea to post them, i was just about to do the same, and the good news is that i have almost identical settings. im just using slightly higher quality audio (160kpbs) and leaving it on Stereo always, everything else looks exactly the same!
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
I'm not sure if that preset uses "high profile" or not. the NC only supports "baseline profile", and I know that's what the ipod setting uses.

The encodes from HD content look brilliant using this setting. I'm not sure how it could be better.
[Nook Color General] epakrat75:
If there's no discernible difference with 480 vs 600 then forget I said anything. :cool:
[Nook Color General] peiziyu:
Using 1024x600 would not be "better" in any way. If you want to use the hardware decoding from the NC's default app (Movies when invoked from Astro but I think a part of Gallery), the video must be H.264 Baseline, AAC audio, resolution less than 854x480.
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
I didn't think about the resolution you specified because you could just make the iphone profile 1024x600.

If I had understood your intention, I would have made you aware that the max video accelerated rez on the NC is 854x480 in my initial reply. Instead, I just focused on your use of the ipad profile.

I don't have personal experience; but I think I read somewhere that H.264 @ 1024x600 is a slide show.
[Nook Color General] mojonba:
Tested with 720p Top Gun and looks perfect. Sound is a little low, but what I've read is that there is no way to adjust the audio gain in Handbrake. Thanks.
[Nook Color General] Masterface7:
From the nook user guide

"Mpeg4 Simple Profile up to 854x480

H.264 Baseline profile up to 854x480"
[Nook Color General] bugeyed1:
I also use "DropFolders". It uses HandBrake, but adds a watch folder & destination folder. Any video you drop in the watch folder starts DropFolder & it converts it & places the converted file in the destination folder. Very convenient. Start DropFolder first & then move the file to the watched folder.

Cheers,

kev
[Nook Color General] swapdotavi:
Ah, so it dosnt support hardware decoding past 480 huh? Good to know. I was wondering why it kept failing at 600. Turns out it's just because I cant read instructions! :D Still, I was running at 400 and it looked alright. Glad to know I can indeed push it a bit further.
[Nook Color General] teknikk7:
What's the average file size you guys are ending up with? I got a 32gb card begging for movies...
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
It is about 530MB per hour.

Sent from my super nook color
[Nook Color General] teknikk7:
Do we expect this 480P limitation to be lifted once a proper 2.2 ROM comes out? Or is this just the limitations of the hardware?
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
It's a hardware limitation.
[Nook Color General] bigtourist:
you are correct that you cannot adjust the gain. however, (you may be aware of this already,) you can set the DRC on the Audio tab to compress the audio, which will essentially raise the quieter sections to match the louder ones. this will not make the loudest parts any louder though.
[Nook Color General] infinityPlusOne:
SubStation Alpha subtitles

For anybody trying to convert MKVs with SSA subtitles (i.e. sources such as anime), I had a heckuva time trying to figure out how get hard subs written to the MP4 output. Apparently the official stable release of Handbrake doesn't support SSA subs but all you need to do is download the latest nightly build and you're off to the races.

Using the settings the OP mentioned worked wonders when I was trying to convert my Hajime no Ippo episodes.

DropFolders looks interesting as well, I'm just not sure I'm crazy about using Adobe Air. Just another silly app to update all the freakin' time.

Anyway, good work, and thanks!
[Nook Color General] don_ernesto:
i'm trying drop folders right now... it's a nice idea but it consumes almost the same CPU than handbrake itself.... i think it is better to run only handbrake and let it use full CPU (and finish in around half of the time)
[Nook Color General] madfatter:
videos look goof using this preset. I can only get them to play smoothly with arc player. But good god do conversions take forever. over 24 hours for 6 movies?? Geez!
[Nook Color General] trippnk:
I'm using the OP settings and all seems well. Takes about an hour to convert the movies on my laptop. I just que up a few and go to bed :) Audio seems to be spot on and video looks real nice. I use Rockplayer btw
[Nook Color General] KryptoNyte39:
There is a new, official release of Handbrake (0.9.5) as of Jan 03, 2011. My old settings seem to work fine, haven't compared any speed/quality with the older 0.9.4.

http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
[Nook Color General] rainmakerrc:
There was a thread at the HandBrake forums last month covering this issue which I found helpful:

http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19010

Specifically, the method described in the third post of the thread above (starting with the High Profile preset and modifying it to get an appropriate Baseline Profile) has worked very well for me for various movie and anime DVD's. They all look and sound great on my NC.

I am running HandBrake on Linux Mint (the post I refer to mentioned that max width and height could not be set in the Windows GUI except by editing the preset file with a text editor, but I was able to set those max parameters when I saved the preset in the Linux version of HandBrake).
[Nook Color General] JackOnan:
What player are you guys using to play these videos?

I tried a couple different players(rockplayer(plays extremely slow and audio out of sync), yxplayer(just quits), default NC player) using the preset for handbrake but I always get the message "Sorry, this video cannot be played". Hardware decoding doesn't seem to work for me, and software decoding is a slideshow. The video res is 854x480.

Also, Handbrake sets the file extension to m4v, which yxplayer doesn't recognize. I renamed it to mp4.(found the setting for this in options)

Rooted NOOKcolor,1.01 update, autonooter 2.12.18
[Nook Color General] waxlabo:
thanks for the preset! i finally got the videos to play smoothly with this and they look great playing from the default player. :)
[Nook Color General] gadgetrants:
Hey Jack, howya doing? Just noticed your post. Come on over to androidtablets.net and check out my Handbrake how-to (sounds like..."why don't you come on up and see me sometime, big boy..." sorry, I must have Tourrette's or ADHD or Alzheimer's or something...). :rolleyes:

-Matt
[Nook Color General] JackOnan:
Hey Matt! Now you've got me scared to go over! ;-) Saw your guide after I posted this here and gotta thank you for the excellent post over at androidtablets.net in the Nook section(shameless plug).

Once I set the width to 720, the videos now play great in most of the players. Could it be that hardware decoding is limited to a width of 720 and not 854 as stated in the manual?
[Nook Color General] markiejones:
My settings worked for 854

Video: width 854, 1000kpbs constant bitrate (1 pass - thing takes too long with 2)

Audio: AAC samplerate: 44100, 128kbps bitrate

Played, looked and sounded like a damn dream.

Will try again with mpeg4 vs h.264 because I *think* it encodes much faster.
[Nook Color General] JackOnan:
OK, it must be the players that were causing the problem.
[Nook Color General] gadgetrants:
It's cool to see you, markiej, kev, and several other AT people over here too. Feels like a family! :)

Glad to hear that 720 works. What are your other devices? I have an Archos 605 that only plays AVIs (don't have the MP4 plugin) so transcoding for the NookColor puts me in an either-or situation (sidenote: I could use vplayer or rockplayer for AVIs on the NC, but neither works well).

Regarding 854 width: I will update the guide to reflect that 854 looks like the maximum. In the forums I've visited on this issue, I'm wondering why there is a bias toward 720. Personally for me, since I'm starting with 1280x720 source, either 854 or 720 work well.

Another sidenote: we had company last night, and they mentioned "We're thinking about getting a smart phone." OH NOOOOES!!!!!! Five minutes later, there were smart phones, media players, netbooks, tablets, you-name-it, scattered all over the table. Had to show them ALL the options! They could see, then and there...that I have a serious problem. :eek: (But the husband was pretty impressed when I showed him how to wireless tether with my Droid!)

-Matt
[Nook Color General] gadgetrants:
markie, I haven't systematically tested MPEG-4 versus h.264 on the NC, but the few times I've tried have resulted in faster encodes with MPEG-4, but also much worse-looking results. My naive impression is that h.264 does a great deal more image-analysis which slows compression (I'm actually getting 70-80fps compression rate with the settings I posted at AT), but ends up with a better picture. (Note that you lose all the options on the Advanced tab in Handbrake when you select MPEG-4).

If you do some comparisons, please let us know what you learn. There's plenty of room in the how-to if you find a good alternative!

-Matt
[Nook Color General] teknikk7:
I encoded some yesterday at 854, 2 pass, AAC 48, 160K. Played great. My source was DVD, so technically it was 720. The Macrosss Saga... 6 Discs
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
I upgraded handbrake, and now I my nook color preset doesn't work. I think I'm going to have to create a new one for the new handbrake version.
[Nook Color General] gadgetrants:
Are you using 0.9.5? Same thing happened to me. Not sure what presets you used, but if you set Maximum B-Frames to 0, and uncheck the CABAC Entropy Coding, 8x8 Transform, and Weighted P-Frames options, I bet you'll be back in business!

-Matt
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
it was the weighted P-Frames. After unchecking that, it started working again. I'll post an updated preset in a few.
[Nook Color General] Noah98:
Can you post a step by step on how to import your presets into Handbrake (Windows 7)? I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!
[Nook Color General] Canadoc:
how do u import on mac?
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
It's not a real import. You're adding to or replacing your existing presets.

Here's a step by step:

1) locate your presets file (the link in my "EDIT" will help you locate it.)

2) rename it from user_presets.xml to user_presets.xml.bak

3) copy one of my attached files (use 0.9.5 for the latest version of handbrake) to the same directory

4) rename it to user_presets.xml

If you had any presets already, this will remove them. If you want them back, just copy them from user_presets.xml.bak into the new user_presets.xml.
[Nook Color General] dlp1000:
Hi, on a Mac, the XML file is a PLIST and the format of variables is different. Any suggestions on incorporating the XML file into the PLIST?

Thanks
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
I think the new version of handbrake has an export feature. I'll give that a try when I get home tonight.
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
If you're a handbrake on mac user that owns a nook color, please give the attached preset a try, and let me know if it works.

You have to unzip it, then use handbrake's import function under the Presets menu.

When someone confirms that it works, I'll add it to the first post.
[Nook Color General] lafester:
this file does not exist anywhere on my pc. followed your link to make sure.
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
Try importing the plist file I posted right above. There's an import option under the presets menu. It should work on windows and Mac.
[Nook Color General] lafester:
ok the file was just hidden. found and replaced with yours.

now how to i make sure i am using your settings?
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
In the preset tree on the right, make sure the nook color preset is selected when you start the encoding.
[Nook Color General] lafester:
lol. yes well the problem was that its a text file and I can't read.

anyway i couldn't save as xml so i had to copy the text into the old file.

seemed to work fine although i'm sure there is an easier way.

going to test now :)
[Nook Color General] Mikroft:
Preset works great in handbrake for windows.
[Nook Color General] cruelcynic:
Thank you for this. :D
[Nook Color General] spikey911:
Can anyone recomend an alternative to Handbrake as it is not supported on netbooks, and possibly list the settings that work well?

Thanks
[Nook Color General] panamamike:
What's up with DSP support?

Try freemake The Android option worked decent for me.

On another topic, anyone have details on the DSP issue? I was hoping DSP support would mean smooth YouTube or other flash playback.

Anyone know if DSP is going to be a reality or are the drivers just not there for froyo and honeycomb?

Regards,

Mike
[Nook Color General] mlitke:
MattZTexasu - FYI - I tried to import the nook.plist file from the zip you posted in message 42. Handbrake would not import it. I am running on a linux system with v0.9.5. I opened the "activity window" (debugging) and noticed it was failing when trying to parse the file. It said it was failing on the first character of the first line, so I opened the file in a text editor and did not see anything out of the ordinary. I exported one of the built-in presets to compare, and still did not see anything out of the ordinary. Finally I opened the nook.plist file (from the zip) with a hex editor and noticed that there were 3 non-printable characters (0xEF, 0xBB , 0xBF) at the beginning of the file. I removed the 3 non-printable characters, saved the file and then Handbrake imported the plist without any issues.

I am using the preset to encode a file now, I will let you know how it plays on the NookColor once is finishes and I have a chance to play it.
[Nook Color General] mlitke:
Just a follow up to my previous message ... The video files HandBrake created using the plist file from the zip posted in message #42 (minus the first three non-printable characters at the start of the file) played fine using the default video player on the NookColor.
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
I removed those three characters and added the file to the first post. thanks for testing the plist file for me.
[Nook Color General] dquangt:
when i import that plist file and select it why does it still show a res of 1280x720. do you manually have to change that each time? also, have you guys tried the turbo first pass setting to see if it cuts down on time with comparable quality?
[Nook Color General] grazzi:
Hello all,

I used the "Nook Color preset for Handbrake" from post #1, and put the mp4 file to Kingston sd card (8gbs class 4). It play perfect on my new/un-root Nook Color.

Thank you so much the info.
[Nook Color General] sbeans:
Looking at the details of the presets, the original presets had a resolution setting, but the new one does not. It could probably be manually added in the PLIST file and then reimported. I think the export process does not capture this setting.
[Nook Color General] MattZTexasu:
I've corrected the issue. download the nook.zip file from the first post. It will set the resolution correctly.
[Nook Color General] sudhirkhanger:
I have tried this twice but everytime it says video can't be played. Any ideas? My videos get converted into m4v format.
[Nook Color General] StarTide:
Mine did that also, but I closed HB and reopened it. Make sure you select the NC profile BEFORE you add the video in. Otherwise it wants to do it as a M4V file. Making sure you have the profile selected defaults it to the correct format.
[Nook Color General] KidJoe:
When I use the nook.zip from the first post, the Height gets set for 854, not the width.

Is that an error? i.e. shouldn't the max width be 854, and max height be 480?

Using the preset, and adjusting the width to be 854, and later running it through with the width set for 720... the resulting moving played the first 20 or so minutes, then I got an error that the file couldn't be played. (this with nook running .0.6.8 & 0.6.7 Froyo via 8Gig CL4 Sandisk microSD).
[Nook Color General] poofyhairguy:
Ok, after playing with it all night I have figured out some things:

1. You can leave the framerate same as source for HD content. The resulting file plays MUCH smoother.

2. I use a constant quality of 22, anything more makes the nook struggle.

3. For each video I select "Anamorphic Loose" and I change the width to 848. The resulting file ALWAYS plays for me (and I have done like 20 from many different HD sources).

4. Under audio, CRANK the DRC (I go to he max- 3.75). This helps overcome the nook's quiet speaker.

5. m4v and mp4 extensions work in the stock player.

Here is a sample:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V2HNIE7R
[Nook Color General] johnny15:
I'm actually curious why more people aren't going lower on the audio settings? A bitrate of 160 seems like overkill to me. I've played around with this a lot before and have found very little difference between the ranges of 96-160kbps. I usually set mine to 96kbps and leave it (regardless of movie and audio needs). Unless you'd be outputting this to something with much better speakers than the NC or your standard headphones, it's just creating a movie that's taking more space than what it really needs.

I'd love to hear other's feedback on this (maybe my ears are just that bad). :o

As a side note....the reason i looked at this in the past is because all of my digital copy movies (that you get when buying some newer movies) had very low audio bitrates, but the audio always sounded decent to me for a mobile format.