[Q] Nook Color Video Problems - Nook Color General

I'm having some frustrating problems with my Nook Color. The fact that it pretty much refuses to play Videos annoys me a lot. NO, I'm not talking about conversion problems. I'm talking about the Nook Not playing Videos in General. For Example: I go to Mobile Youtube and try to watch a video I get an error(The Picture Attatched). Now I know the Nook Color can play Mobile Youtube because I tested it out on the Store Display Models, but when I try to watch the same video on my NC I get the Attatched Error.
Now take it a step further, I have Nookie Froyo Setup on my MicroSD card and tricked out with everything including Market. Pretty much the only thing I can't get working are Protected Apps from the Market, that and again Videos. Videos absolutly refuse to play at all unless I load it within a Flash Player like on youtube, but it doesn't play smoothly in the Flash Player unless I keep the Player small(which hardly compliments my NC's screen).
So does anyone have any idea as to why my NC refuses to play Video?

What are you using to play the videos?
What kind of videos are they? (avi, mkv, mp4)
Try Rockplayer, it plays just about everything I can throw at it. I also use arcmedia for the few vidoes that RP can't play.

smithgood9 said:
Nook Color can only play these video formats: 3GP, 3G2, MP4, M4V, and OGG. And supports MPEG-4 Simple Profile up to 854×480, H.263 up to 352×288, and H.264 Baseline profile up to 854×480. So if u want enjoy your video on Nook Color, u must convert video to these Nook Color compatible formats. I suggest u try Foxreal Video Converter, which can convert all format videos to Nook Color with the optimized format (MP4, H.264, 854×480).
U can try it, good luck!
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Thanks, I have try just like what you said.
The videos can worked well on my NC.
I think others have the same problem, so i found a tips about watch videos on Nook Color in the iCamcorder Blog

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smithgood9 said:
Nook Color can only play these video formats: 3GP, 3G2, MP4, M4V, and OGG. And supports MPEG-4 Simple Profile up to 854×480, H.263 up to 352×288, and H.264 Baseline profile up to 854×480. So if u want enjoy your video on Nook Color, u must convert video to these Nook Color compatible formats. I suggest u try Foxreal Video Converter, which can convert all format videos to Nook Color with the optimized format (MP4, H.264, 854×480).
U can try it, good luck!
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Thanks for the info! I downloaded the foxreal converter, but I can't find or set the optimized format (MP4, H.264, 854×480) that you suggested. Can you offer any help?
BTW My computer skills are marginal at best...
TIA Rich

BTT I'm hoping that some one can help me out...

If you have protected app install problem, open Nook Tools and unchecked the Allow Non-Market App and rechecked it. I recommend VitalPlayer from the market. It's free so it has ads but if you use Adfree, you can eliminate the ads.

succulent said:
If you have protected app install problem, open Nook Tools and unchecked the Allow Non-Market App and rechecked it. I recommend VitalPlayer from the market. It's free so it has ads but if you use Adfree, you can eliminate the ads.
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Thanks!
I should have mentioned that my nook is not rooted. I just want to convert videos to a format so that I can watch them...

Actually my problem was this:
UnRooted Stock went to m.youtube.com tried to play a Video got error.
Interrestingly it would start working while at B&N store but stop working when I left. In the end I'm running Nookie Froyo off of MicroSD and can use the Android Youtube or the Youtube App, Haven't looked back. Don't want to touch my stock because I want to keep my NC as clean as Possible just in case it breaks or something. ( And while hoping for a Netflix App when B&N launch their App store)
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japzone said:
Actually my problem was this:
UnRooted Stock went to m.youtube.com tried to play a Video got error.
Interrestingly it would start working while at B&N store but stop working when I left. In the end I'm running Nookie Froyo off of MicroSD and can use the Android Youtube or the Youtube App, Haven't looked back. Don't want to touch my stock because I want to keep my NC as clean as Possible just in case it breaks or something. ( And while hoping for a Netflix App when B&N launch their App store)
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Many thanks!
I'm quite the computer cave man, did you find froyo hard to do?

saburai said:
Many thanks!
I'm quite the computer cave man, did you find froyo hard to do?
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Not really, although I do recommend having Linux as it will save you alot of trouble. Try Ubuntu as it requires no Partitioning to Install if you use the Windows installer.
The default NF image doesn't come with Market but there's a Gapps Howto on the Dev forums. Also I recommend a Class 6 MicroSD although a Class 4 will work.
If you have any other questions you can PM me.
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[Q] Why can't I get my video and audio to sync correctly?

Hi there. I've had my nook color for about a week, and I'm having quite a problem getting my videos to play with the audio and video properly synced. I've done quite a bit of reading, but I haven't been able to find anything about this, so I'm hoping you fine people will be able to give me a hand here.
The Problem - The video is consistently about a quarter of a second ahead of the video. That is to say, I will hear what's being said/going on before I'll see it. Another interesting phenomenon is that this same issue occurs within Angry Birds, except that the video moves/plays first, and then the audio plays catch up.
About my nc- I rooted using Autonooter, I have working gapps, and my software version is 1.0.0. I have flashed the "Screamer" 950 Mhtz kernel, and most everything seems to be working except for the above mentioned video. Angry
What I've tried - A better question is what I haven't tried. I've tried converting the XviD AVI video files to M4V, I've tried playing from the internal memory, microSD card, and approximately 6 different video players ranging from ArcSoft, to VitalPlayer, to the dreaded VPlayer. All yield the same result with 3 different video files.
So, what do you guys think? Would upgrading to 1.0.1 or even 1.1.0 help with this? Or am I doing something else wrong? Any suggestions are welcome at this point.
Thanks ahead of time.
~Q
Are you using Handbrake to format your videos for the Nook Color?
The best format is mp4 with a resolution of 624x352 with the video codec at H.264.
You can download Handbrake here: http://handbrake.fr/
The built-in video player works fine for these videos.
Thanks for the reply.
I was converting videos using Freemake to m4v, and the converter has an Android preset. These playback just fine on my computer. As soon as I move them to the nook, playback is out of sync.
Do you think it would make any differnce to update to 1.0.1 or 1.1.0?

Video playbacks on nook color?

Hi guys, I have searched about the video playback capability of nook color.
I found information that has been posted since december but i am not sure if there are any changes since then. Can nook color play avi and m4v now? without the conversion?
And is adobe flash available for it right now as its already on 2.2?
I seems like I can't get information about it and all i got was about the flashing of nook color. and videos of nook color.
please enlighten me. i am currently so tempted to buy nook color.
Currently video playback is very limited, and hardly any formats are supported. As for flash, it is supported somewhat on the Froyo 2.2 builds for the Nook Color, however, it is still recommended that you run those from the sdcard as the EMMC builds are still highly unstable. With the current progression on Stock, Froyo, and even Honeycomb, we can only guess that flash and video support is right around the corner, especially once A3.0 becomes AOSP.
I use radtools or mcebuddy for batch conversion to vanilla mp4. Works great
NC via XDA
rockplayer in the market will play avi's and what not
thanks for the replies guys!
was thinking of buying it already but it seems like there are no stock on bestbuy.com .
stock seems to be available at B&N but bestbuy gives a free cover.
but bestbuy gotta wait for around 2 weeks! !
I use handbrake (free) to transcode movies to mp4 which plays beautifully on the nook
Alsos use mVideoPlayer which also supports import of subtitle files
waiteck said:
thanks for the replies guys!
was thinking of buying it already but it seems like there are no stock on bestbuy.com .
stock seems to be available at B&N but bestbuy gives a free cover.
but bestbuy gotta wait for around 2 weeks! !
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i tried to get a nook color through a online store.
But: its out of stock everywhere: b&n, bestbuy, wallmart, booksamillion. even if they say that its in stock, it wont be until the 15.2.
you can try at ebay.com or amazon.com...,
Yeah, be careful with the online inventory counts from Bestbuy and Walmart. Sometimes they say they have units on hand and they don't. I've even heard about people calling into Barnes & Noble and the "kids" that work there said they had several and it turns out they were sold out for days.
guys, try this : VitalPlayer. It's free and it's the best one I've ever had in the market.
It can play avi, mkv,wmv,mp4 as such, the best thing is: its software decoding is SOOOOOOO good. If you just play some videos not in HD resolution, this tool can give you almost no lag, no sound delay experience.
Try it and you'll like it just like me.
I have tried Rockplayer, VPlayer, XYZ, and VirtualPlayer. With all of them my AVI files have the audio out of sync. I tried to convert the AVI's to MP4 with DVDFab and the audio was still out of sync. What program will definitely convert from AVI to MP4 while keeping the audio and video in sync?
Handbrake, without a doubt the easiest and best quality IMO.
I too have tried other video players and have seen audio sync issues with them. Using the built in gallery app on my stock rooted nook though video playback is perfect. I have bluray rips of a few select faves for my son on my nook, specifically coded at 854 pixels wide with constant quality set to 20 and they look fantastic on the nook's standard video player but skip and drop frames on vplayer or rock player regardless of what kernel I run (stock 800mhz or overclocked). I haven't tried playback using vplayer or rock in Nookie Froyo yet, maybe I'll try that tonight.
Same here - I have had no luck with any of the other media players.
muzzy996 said:
Handbrake, without a doubt the easiest and best quality IMO.
I too have tried other video players and have seen audio sync issues with them. Using the built in gallery app on my stock rooted nook though video playback is perfect. I have bluray rips of a few select faves for my son on my nook, specifically coded at 854 pixels wide with constant quality set to 20 and they look fantastic on the nook's standard video player but skip and drop frames on vplayer or rock player regardless of what kernel I run (stock 800mhz or overclocked). I haven't tried playback using vplayer or rock in Nookie Froyo yet, maybe I'll try that tonight.
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If you do, please post findings…thanks…
Cool, was looking for mkv playback...will check out vitalplayer.
I have tried Rockplayer, VPlayer, XYZ, and VirtualPlayer. With all of them my AVI files have the audio out of sync. I tried to convert the AVI's to MP4 with DVDFab and the audio was still out of sync.
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Did you try your AVI in your PC? A lot of times, the video file itself may be out-of-sync. In that case, no matter how you convert it, it won't work.
The AVI files play fine on my Archos 70 using RockPlayer.
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Played around a little more last night and confirmed that for me playback of my mp4 h.264 videos encoded to meet nook specs play flawlessly in the standard player in eclair and the nookie froyo 0.68 image. Playback in vplayer or rockplayer suffers audio sync issues due to dropped frames though I noted that playback of video in vplayer in froyo was much better than in eclair.
I'm really wondering how it is people are getting flawless playback in vplayer. I expected to see it in froyo seeing as I was using a clean SD card boot image (latest distro) .
Its not a huge deal for me since the stock video player plays well but it does mean having to re-encode my fave TV shows from xvid avi to h.264 mp4 before loading them onto the nook.
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The Nook Gallery seems to be the only thing that will playback videos without a video/audio sync problem. I use VideoReo to re-encode my videos into a h.264 format for Android phones. They look great on the Nook. VideoRedo is pretty expensive (I use it for converting .tivo videos) but it is a Cadillac. Handbrake is supposed to be a good free alternative.
Is there any way to get the stock Google Gallery app from Eclair onto a V1.1 rooted Nook?
I'm running brianf21's 0.6.7 Nookie 2.2 image off of the SD card. Flash wasn't working in browser so I uninstalled Flash 10.1 in the market, rebooted, and re-installed.
Embedded youtube videos now working in the browser.
From his thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324) the only thing I could see was reported success with 0.5.9 so hope this is helpful.
Handbreak.

[Q] Video/Music?

Alright, so I'm running Nookie Froyo (customized?) and Sometimes my SD card has problems mounting but I just pop it in and out and it goes.
However, Gallery and Music are not picking up any of the music I have stored on there.
Similarly, when I use Astro to play most of the videos I have, it FC's. Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions?
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Off the top of my head I'd say for the video issue verify the format is compatible (h.264 baseline with a resolution at or below 854x480 for example) and short of that use ROM manager to fix permissions, reboot into recovery and wipe cache and then check again.
On the custom emmc 0.6.8 build I'm finding that the best thing for me is to re-encode my videos using handbrake with the custom preset found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894165
I've tried various video players and have settled for just using the stock player and uninstalling all others. I sometimes get video rotating into portrait mode which I resolve by jumping into Youtube app and running a video while rotating into landscape mode and then jumping back into gallery. Seems to often kick the movie player back into playing in landscape as it's supposed to.
As for music, I haven't tried loading my SD card with MP3's so I can't comment on that.
Hope this helps.
Hey thanks, helped me out too haha.
Does HandBrake have a batch convert/process option?
If it doesn't, I need a program that does.
I used freemake to do the conversion for my nook, and it worked great. But, you do have to be careful what video size, audio and video codecs, bitrate, and file extension that you pick.
gmap516 said:
Does HandBrake have a batch convert/process option?
If it doesn't, I need a program that does.
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It has. Press "Soucre->Add folder", all video files will appear in title list. Simply switch titles and add them to queue.
Honestly, call me dumb. But I clicked "Source> Add folder" Then Start and it only converted 1 file.
EDIT: Sorry ,I figured it out.

Video Playback in Nookie Froyo?

I'm new to Nook, please don't blame me if it's a stupid qustion...
Got my Nook yesterday and installed customized nookie froyo 0.6.8
Everything else is fine but the video playback.
From the instructions Froyo on Nook should have video playback capability and actually I went through the Quadrant test. However when actually playing videos, it seems all the video players I tried(Rock, Mobo, Vital) were soft-decoding. Also any app that try to use the system video playback feature will not work, ex. mVideoPlayer, Asphalt 5 and so on.
I checked the original nookie froyo and there is no system video player either. Why?
Because the Nook's default player is VERY picky. Until I purposefully encoded files to work for it, I could only get the softplayer to work. Here is a file I made, if it works you know that is your problem:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V2HNIE7R
poofyhairguy said:
Because the Nook's default player is VERY picky. Until I purposefully encoded files to work for it, I could only get the softplayer to work. Here is a file I made, if it works you know that is your problem:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V2HNIE7R
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Which video conversion application did you use? Was it HandBrake? Any kind of information would greatly be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
silentbushido said:
Which video conversion application did you use? Was it HandBrake? Any kind of information would greatly be appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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Handbrake has worked the best for me in my experience. There is a thread here in the forums re settings that produce files that play very well using the Nook's hardware decoding.
amtrakcn said:
I checked the original nookie froyo and there is no system video player either. Why?
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There's no video player app per se but if you go to gallery you can click on a video file and it will play it back.
Look for the handbrake preset thread as has been stated. Any videos that you're attempting to play back that have a resolution higher than 854x480 will need to be re-encoded to that resolution or lower, preferably at H.264 BASELINE. Hardware acceleration on the nook is very limited, which is the reason you'll have issues with various apps as you're experiencing. It is what it is.
Having said that, lower res videos like TV shows encoded in xvid in avi format play back fine for me using Mobo Player on nookie froyo. If it's HD though (720p or higher) forget it . .

Nook problems when playing video

I try to play 720p video on nook and the voice and picture is out of sync
when I try to play 480p video, the voice and video is a bit out of sync too though only a bit
both video is mkv type
I guess that Nook is bad with playing MKV video files for either quality, I haven't yet try to play other format, anyway will there any differences? Will other tablets like viewsonic has this problem?
Nook is not really designed to do this but try a different format like mp4 or mpeg-4
innosia said:
I try to play 720p video on nook and the voice and picture is out of sync
when I try to play 480p video, the voice and video is a bit out of sync too though only a bit
both video is mkv type
I guess that Nook is bad with playing MKV video files for either quality, I haven't yet try to play other format, anyway will there any differences? Will other tablets like viewsonic has this problem?
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I have had this problem too. If you don't want to convert your video, you might want to try QQPlayer. It can even play avi files. With AVI files, it can get a little choppy like it is skipping a frame every few frames but it doesn't stop and start and it is watchable.
If you don't mind converting videos, I have had good luck using handbrake for windows which is free and using the iPhone setting.
richdaley said:
I have had this problem too. If you don't want to convert your video, you might want to try QQPlayer. It can even play avi files. With AVI files, it can get a little choppy like it is skipping a frame every few frames but it doesn't stop and start and it is watchable.
If you don't mind converting videos, I have had good luck using handbrake for windows which is free and using the iPhone setting.
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hi darley, what format to convert to? iphone setting means quicktime format?
Movies
Not sure which version pf OS you're running but, I watched lots of movies during airplane trips on the stock Nook, and a very early rooted version (1.1) with great high quality viewing. No sync issues. My movies were in MP4 format using Format Factory (free) . It takes any format converts to another and can compress, kepp same etc. When I switched to CM7 recently started getting slight out of sync issues - but barely noticeable. I'm ordering a new higher class card now which will hopefully make things better.
You have the Nook now - try Format Factory with MP4 medium quality setting, use Moboplayer (free) and play with the file size. WOrked great for me. Also, the SD card makes a HUGE difference. Try a few different ones.

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