Can you playback MKV's with MX Player on the HD+?
while i do not have the nook hd+(yet),
i have the nook tablet and mkv's work fine on that, do not see why it would be different on the hd+
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Can you playback MKV's with MX Player on the HD+?
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Don't know for MX Player but XBMC plays MKV fine
I stop using MX player a long time ago, I use BSplayer. I know it play mkv and usually play much smoother than MX player. Thus the reason I switch. And I'm talking about 1080p MKV files.
Yep, I second that. BS Player will play 1080p MKV with hardware acceleration. Whereas the few files I tried with MX Player will only play back with software codec. From my short testing, both players produced decent quality. BS Player won me over with its capability to seamlessly access files on network shares.
Thanks ill have to try this BS player out
Defiantly my new favorite app!! SMB media flawlessy streaming 1080p MKV to my phone:highfive:
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Yep, I second that. BS Player will play 1080p MKV with hardware acceleration. Whereas the few files I tried with MX Player will only play back with software codec. From my short testing, both players produced decent quality. BS Player won me over with its capability to seamlessly access files on network shares.
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yep. love bsplayer and it works fine with the tablet. even software decoding works fine.
Anybody else had trouble with Nook HD+ crashing when playing videos off high-storage SD cards?
On my Nook HD+ playing back large HD videos like 1080p MKV files off 32GB SD card froze the whole thing multiple times while playing from local storage works without a problem.
I'll give BSPlayer a try and see if problem happens there too.
Freezing or stutter usually means a few things.
sd card speed slow and unable to read it fast enough
the cpu is slow and unable to keep up.
your movie is too high bitrate or not supporting hw decode, this usuallly lead to one of the two above problem.
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Freezing or stutter usually means a few things.
sd card speed slow and unable to read it fast enough
the cpu is slow and unable to keep up.
your movie is too high bitrate or not supporting hw decode, this usuallly lead to one of the two above problem.
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It's not the playback freezing but the whole device locking up and usually requiring a hard reset with sleep and home button.
What's weird is that videos seem to play fine off my 8GB SD card and internal storage so I'm wondering if Nook has problem with Class 10 cards.
The videos are indeed high-bitrate but it happens for videos played by both hardware and software decoding.
I'm hoping that it's just a software thing and a custom ROM would be able to alleviate the issue since SD card support is one the main reason I chose Nook instead of Kindle.
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It's not the playback freezing but the whole device locking up and usually requiring a hard reset with sleep and home button.
What's weird is that videos seem to play fine off my 8GB SD card and internal storage so I'm wondering if Nook has problem with Class 10 cards.
The videos are indeed high-bitrate but it happens for videos played by both hardware and software decoding.
I'm hoping that it's just a software thing and a custom ROM would be able to alleviate the issue since SD card support is one the main reason I chose Nook instead of Kindle.
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It could be the format of the card. All external SD come formatted fat32. And internal media is formatted ext4. Ext4 is better for videos, mainly for file size, but it might be for speed also. When the HD+ first detects a new card, it gives you the option to format it. If you say yes, it formats it ext4. The only problem with doing that is then the SD is not directly readable in Windows PC's. But you can still read with it MTP.
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FAT32 also have file size limitation of 4GB. So, it's not a very good choice for putting 1080p movie on there. There is also exFAT which is like a cross between FAT32 and NTFS. some people call it FAT64. There aren't much info on exFAT but Nook does support exFAT also. You can put larger file size there. I'm not sure about its performance but I can tell on that there aren't much software that support it. Especially recovery software. Say if you have corruption on FAT32 or NTFS, there are tons of software that can help you recover some if not most files, but exFAT recovery software is like NULL.
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It could be the format of the card. All external SD come formatted fat32. And internal media is formatted ext4. Ext4 is better for videos, mainly for file size, but it might be for speed also. When the HD+ first detects a new card, it gives you the option to format it. If you say yes, it formats it ext4. The only problem with doing that is then the SD is not directly readable in Windows PC's. But you can still read with it MTP.
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Actually, I found that when Nook HD+ asks to format the card, it formats it in ExFAT.
I'll be trying it out again, but the 8GB card that works fine is also ExFAT and I formatted both cards with Nook's format SD card feature.
It's really weird since I've thought about many different variables, but can't find the distinguishing factor 32GB SD card has except for its size, and class speed.
Not all card are created equal, it's simple as that.
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Actually, I found that when Nook HD+ asks to format the card, it formats it in ExFAT.
I'll be trying it out again, but the 8GB card that works fine is also ExFAT and I formatted both cards with Nook's format SD card feature.
It's really weird since I've thought about many different variables, but can't find the distinguishing factor 32GB SD card has except for its size, and class speed.
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Hm... I stand corrected. I never had it format mine since I had data on it and I wanted to keep it FAT32. I guess I will have to correct my HD+ tips thread. Does Windows XP natively read ExFAT!
Edit: I just updated my tips thread to put this corrected information on it. I found that Windows XP won't read it natively but will after applying a patch from Microsoft.
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Does Windows XP natively read ExFAT!
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NO
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Sometimes I copy (.wmv) movies to the external SD card and the video player says unsupported format. But when i copy the same movie to the internal SD it plays fine. Strange. Maybe I should let the phone reformat the card but at this point there's all kinds of files on there and I find the file system confusing. I see everything using ROOT EXPLORER but even then its confusing as to what is residing in the phone or on the card. It could be a problem with the video player itself. Can anyone recommend another player to use?
I have rooted my phone, backed up with Titanium, etc. When I install the official froyo (hopefully to be released soon) will it revert the phone back to "stock" Will i have to re-root again? Is there anything else i will have to do over?
thanks
What brand sd card and where did you buy it?
File system is pretty simple. /sd is internal storage. /sd/sdcard is external.
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micro sd card
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What brand sd card and where did you buy it?
File system is pretty simple. /sd is internal storage. /sd/sdcard is external.
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I dont really know the make. It says MICRO SD on it, 16GB, bought it off ebay, it worked fine in my previous phone I think. Looking at the card thru the file manager I see a whole bunch of directories, not sure how they got there. I don't think its the card itself, I think it has something to do with the OS or maybe the compression rate of the video or something else. I have a lower resolution .wmv movie on the card and that one plays fine....weird...but the movies that play were done a long time ago formatted for my Dash 3G. I am converting these movies off the origional DVD. I tried using another player and it did the same thing. The .wmv movies are about 1 gig and they look beautiful so putting them on the card makes sense. I'll try playing with the conversion settings and other file formats...I'll probably figure it out.
Thanks for the info on the file system.
continue looking
The videos app says that it will enable you to play H.264 and 3gp movies from your SD card but I have tried that and so far no luck. So there must be other specific conversion settings it requires to work.
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I dont really know the make. It says MICRO SD on it, 16GB, bought it off ebay, it worked fine in my previous phone I think. Looking at the card thru the file manager I see a whole bunch of directories, not sure how they got there. I don't think its the card itself, I think it has something to do with the OS or maybe the compression rate of the video or something else. I have a lower resolution .wmv movie on the card and that one plays fine....weird...but the movies that play were done a long time ago formatted for my Dash 3G. I am converting these movies off the origional DVD. I tried using another player and it did the same thing. The .wmv movies are about 1 gig and they look beautiful so putting them on the card makes sense. I'll try playing with the conversion settings and other file formats...I'll probably figure it out.
Thanks for the info on the file system.
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Your original post says that sometimes the same vids play from internal memory but not from the card. This points to the card as the culprit - not the format of the video.
Ebay purchased cards are usually fakes or poor quality and are notorious for unpredictable results.
video never play
A couple of the older ones I have do read off the SD card, but none of my recently converted videos do. I am still play around with different conversions. I will find one that works, eventually.
now working
I have to admit you were right.....I got a message from the phone saying my SD card was corrupted..so i let the phone format it. The phone is now running much better and i can run movies off the card now with Arc Media and VPlayer. I think Vplayer is now my favorite with its on screen gesture controls and luminecense setting. Copying the big movies from my computer to the card is still a little iffy. While copying a 1 gig movie to the card for instance, the progress bar on the computer will appear to hang, but if i give it enough time then disconnect and reconnect to the computer I discover the movie actually copied to the card. Sometimes I have to reboot the phone in order to reconnect. It does better with smaller files. Maybe 2.2 will fix this issue....thanks again.;
Hi guys,
this might be really noobish question, but I hear a lot people talking about partitioning their SD card and I dont really understand what that means.. I tried to search, but all I could find were a ways of doing it rather than what it really is.
Now the issue: I have SGS with 32gb nokia class 2 SD card. So far I had only one issue with the card and that is when I put video files on it (no matter what format mp4, avi, mvk and so on) there is always a point in the video, when the it shows a lagy squared-like screen and skips like 1-3 minutes of video which really bugs me :/. Also, sometimes when I put flv files on it, they just stop after playing for some time (lag) and only audio goes on with video stuck.
I never had the problem when putting the files on internal SD card, they just play along..
as for the partitioning, should I partition ? Some simple definiton would be helpfull What are the benefits/risk of it ?
thank you very much !!!
the video lag and the skipping maybe do to the fact that your sd card is class2 or it's ajust an older model don't know for sure i have a 16 gb class6 sdhc and i'm playing 720p video file downloaded from youtube and mkv and other stuff without any lag borrow from one of your friend an sd card and see if there's any difference as for partitioning your card i don't see the point in doing that
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the video lag and the skipping maybe do to the fact that your sd card is class2 or it's ajust an older model don't know for sure i have a 16 gb class6 sdhc and i'm playing 720p video file downloaded from youtube and mkv and other stuff without any lag borrow from one of your friend an sd card and see if there's any difference as for partitioning your card i don't see the point in doing that
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well I dont think that would be the case, because it handles saving 720p video from camera and than playing it without problems. The issue is not lagging, its more like skipping the part of a movie or, when playing flash not finishing the movie...
do you think I should try to return the card ? Because I really cant use a card for movies and thats pretty much everything beside music I have it for..
Everybody is complaining about the choice of 8GB and 16GB internal memory and lack of external SD support for Nexus 7. Looking at the specs for Nexus 7 and also at tear-down pictures, it is clear that the internal memory is not an SD card. In other words, in the older cheaper tablets, you can replace the 1,2 or 4 GB microSDs with higher memory easily. What kind of memory chip/card is used for the 8/16 GB memory. Has anybody looked into replacing OEM memory with alternate higher memory options?
Best Regards,
RALIR
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Everybody is complaining about the choice of 8GB and 16GB internal memory and lack of external SD support for Nexus 7. Looking at the specs for Nexus 7 and also at tear-down pictures, it is clear that the internal memory is not an SD card. In other words, in the older cheaper tablets, you can replace the 1,2 or 4 GB microSDs with higher memory easily. What kind of memory chip/card is used for the 8/16 GB memory. Has anybody looked into replacing OEM memory with alternate higher memory options?
Best Regards,
RALIR
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The NAND chips are soldered onto the PCB. They are non-replaceable without industrial equipment, and possibly some software patches.
Its not going to happen.
Alternatively, Google USB-OTG. Less convenient, but more realistic.
As Mike mentions, USB OTG is the alternadtive. Unlock the bootloader for your nexus 7 and root it and u can just hook up any usb using a OTG cable. I use the internal memory just for installing apps and i use a 8GB Sandisk USB to store things like pictures, music, movies. Streaming media through USB OTG works great on the Nexus 7. I had no problem streaming a full HD 1080p movie from the USB!
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As Mike mentions, USB OTG is the alternadtive. Unlock the bootloader for your nexus 7 and root it and u can just hook up any usb using a OTG cable. I use the internal memory just for installing apps and i use a 8GB Sandisk USB to store things like pictures, music, movies. Streaming media through USB OTG works great on the Nexus 7. I had no problem streaming a full HD 1080p movie from the USB!
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I do the same thing' but play music won't pick up the songs from the USB stick. How do u do it?
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I do the same thing' but play music won't pick up the songs from the USB stick. How do u do it?
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Use this If your rooted. It mounts to a folder in the sdcard directory. which the media scanner will pick up. (takes a while to show up if you have a large library)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=en
or this if your not rooted. Your can stream the media or copy it to your internal memory.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer&hl=en
I have used the following to get google play on my nook hd+
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2062613
I have some blu ray rips. When I put them on my nook hd+ as MKV files, they play fine for a bit, and then will stop, and I'm back at the 'choose your video' screen
When I convert them to h264 MP4 files, and put them on my nook hd+, they play fine for a bit, then switch to SW encoding, which is very slow
I am playing them off my 64gb sandisk micro SDXC, formatted as exfat
Any suggestions? I have tried the popular players such as mxplayer, diceplayer, vlc, bsplayer etc
First, let me make it clear, MP4 and MKV are not codec, it's a wrapper/container. While BSplayer can play either, meaning understand and can read the wrapper. Whether it can use hardware decode are depending on whether the file was ripped and use proper codec. Using too much bit rate during the conversion can be a problem also as the sdcard may not be able to read fast enough to feed the content to the CPU. Also, while I very favor the BSplayer above all other I think some people aren't install it correctly, or should I rather say, not a complete install. The main program is necessary, but if you don't install the ARMv7 CPU support, you won't get it to do HW decode well also. I always rip my stuff w/ 4k bit rate and not higher as I see it usually yield the best result between file size and quality, also nothing above 4.0 profile as it can be a problem playing on many device. This usually mean for 2 hrs movie will get you about 4GB file size and 3hrs will end up about 6GB. This can be a problem for FAT32 card though.
An update.
"MKV" = 15 minute uncompressed bluray file, 3.8gb
Sandisk 64gb Class 10 Micro SD, EXFAT - Mkv stops after a few seconds
Sandisk 64gb Class 10 Micro SD, FAT32 - Mkv stops after a few minutes, always in the exact same place
Samsung 8gb Class 6 Micro SD, Exfat - MKV Plays perfectly - this is despite the fact that this card is a lot slower than the 64gb micro sdxc
Samsung 8gb Class 6 Micro SD, Fat32 - Not yet tested (don't need to test if exfat works fine)
---> Could the problem be that the SDXC is 64gb, yet these tablets only officially support upto 32gb cards?
If so, I'll get a 32gb card, if it means the same flawless playback as the 8gb
Thanks
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---> Could the problem be that the SDXC is 64gb, yet these tablets only officially support upto 32gb cards?
If so, I'll get a 32gb card, if it means the same flawless playback as the 8gb
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No, they officially support 64gb. See the developer site.
Did you format the card with the stock software? I'm just wondering if they may do something special to it beside make it exfat.
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No, they officially support 64gb. See the developer site.
Did you format the card with the stock software? I'm just wondering if they may do something special to it beside make it exfat.
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Yep, tried formatting on the stock firmware (which makes it exfat) and my pc (tried exfat and fat32)... the issue of playback randomly stopping happens on both
Would you mind post the media info of the mkv file you ripped? eg: file size, movie length, (compression format, bit rate) for both audio and video. I can tell you that I rip my stuff at 1080p h.264 4Mbps variable bitrate w/ 25Mbps max 2 passed 24fps profile 4.0 and for audio 5.1 channel AC3 constant 640k bitrate. And they never have problem playing on just about any device.
I can also tell you that the MP4 version of the youtube never gave me problem also. Apparently youtube is using roughly 3M variable bit rate, 30fps, 2 channel audio AAC 192k variable. So it's a bit more compressed. In the past I have experimenting on the encoding settings. And I found that if I use 8M bitrate for the video, it's usually too much for either wifi streaming or some low power device won't play well.
This might be the well known issue that nook has with sd class 10 cards. Several people report better results, for instance running CM, with Class 4 or Class 6 cards. Itsinteresting that it stops at the same point, maybe there's some sort of physical issue with a specific memory location(s) that causes problems on nooks?
I just flashed CM 10.1.3 on my replacement HD+. I've got a 64GB Sandisk Ultra formatted to exfat. It seems to read the card without flashing the fuse scripts, but I'm having some issues. The card is not detected on boot up, I have to remove and re-insert the card.
Titanium is having fits. It says the card is not writeable though I can write to the card fine with CM's file manager. Is exfat stable in CM 10.1.3?
Alternatively, can I still flash the fuse scripts? Or will that break something else? Or is exfat better in the 10.2 nighties?
Thanks!
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I just flashed CM 10.1.3 on my replacement HD+. I've got a 64GB Sandisk Ultra formatted to exfat. It seems to read the card without flashing the fuse scripts, but I'm having some issues. The card is not detected on boot up, I have to remove and re-insert the card.
Titanium is having fits. It says the card is not writeable though I can write to the card fine with CM's file manager. Is exfat stable in CM 10.1.3?
Alternatively, can I still flash the fuse scripts? Or will that break something else? Or is exfat better in the 10.2 nighties?
Thanks!
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I have the same card, and I ended up reformatting it to FAT32 so that GL to SD would work. I hadn't even tried using my TB before the reformat, as I had tried copying my 32GB Sandisk Ultra to it in exfat and nothing really worked correctly. Things like Acer Video Player didn't seem to like the exfat format either.
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I have the same card, and I ended up reformatting it to FAT32 so that GL to SD would work. I hadn't even tried using my TB before the reformat, as I had tried copying my 32GB Sandisk Ultra to it in exfat and nothing really worked correctly. Things like Acer Video Player didn't seem to like the exfat format either.
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Thanks! Yeah, I'm trying to avoid fat32. Before it hit the bugged emmc, my old nook was used for videos and its a big pain to split movies. I can also report that folder mount (similar to GL to SD) doesn't work with exfat on the CM 10.1. I am trying to find out how to disable fuse on the CM rom so I can flash the fuse scripts which I used previously and work fine. Tried straight flashing it and it was very unstable.
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Thanks! Yeah, I'm trying to avoid fat32. Before it hit the bugged emmc, my old nook was used for videos and its a big pain to split movies. I can also report that folder mount (similar to GL to SD) doesn't work with exfat on the CM 10.1. I am trying to find out how to disable fuse on the CM rom so I can flash the fuse scripts which I used previously and work fine. Tried straight flashing it and it was very unstable.
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I am using my 64gb Sandisk for games and emulator games, hence the GL to SD and such. I plan on using the USB hosting to stream stored videos from a flash drive / card reader / usb hdd on the go, or try one of those mini network wireless media streamers for no wires. At home I use Emit to stream from my 'server' pc ( 6TB storage ).
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I am using my 64gb Sandisk for games and emulator games, hence the GL to SD and such. I plan on using the USB hosting to stream stored videos from a flash drive / card reader / usb hdd on the go, or try one of those mini network wireless media streamers for no wires. At home I use Emit to stream from my 'server' pc ( 6TB storage ).
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Yeah, been there. We're straying off topic but its my thread so its ok . I've been on the hunt for things like this since I was on a Palm Pilot. In my experience, contrived USB host works but its very inconvenient on the go. The cable is unwieldy (in Nook's case very long) and the connections/adapters/etc are a PIA to manage unless you have a purse and a stable situation (like a table or something). I have an iUSBport which is basically a wireless/wifi USB host port. It woks great and I am happy with it (even a 1TB self powered USB hard drive no problem), but again kind of a pain to use on the go.
I think you may find that these solutions work great for traveling and in your hotel at night and situations like that, but day to day its far more convenient to have a few movies and TV shows on your microSD (TV shows are under the 4GB limit, so no issues). For example, have you ever watched a movie on the subway? Spotty 4G, no room to run cables, one of many situations where work arounds just don't work.
I use plex great on other tabs, and its been the best solution though not perfect, but on the Nook it only has wifi, so without 4G its pretty useless on the go (tethering to the phone works but again a pain). In house, its no problem and all TBs of my media server are available (I am somewhere around 75TBs these days ).
IDK, I don't find existing work arounds compelling and I try everything I see. I bought the iUSBport (called iCloudFTP or something then) via a Kickstarter and was excited to see the concept in retail. The one exception is that my Acer tab (getting older now though) has a normal usb 2.0 port right in its side. Its the only solution I find that works great with non-internal storage. Wish everyone did that. I give Asus and others credit as they do it on the keyboard dock which is a dream for traveling but I find, for example in the subway scenario, the keyboard can be more of a hindrance than a benefit as it is essentially a really big accessory.