Hello,
I have made a video encoding GUI for the blackstone, which allows smooth playback of hi-res videos in album.
With the recent change of adding VGA resolution to the GUI, it should now be usable on the diamond and raphael.
The original thread is located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
Could someone be so kind to encode a couple of movies/trailers or short clips and tell me how the playback is in album on the Diamond?
Thank you.
ill give it a try!
Thanks!
Please let me know asap how it turns out
Make sure to select the VGA resolution though, else it will make the video in Blackstone/Xperia format.
projection said:
Thanks!
Please let me know asap how it turns out
Make sure to select the VGA resolution though, else it will make the video in Blackstone/Xperia format.
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yes i am encoding rite now but the file is big so its taking time!!! ill let you asap!!!
and yes i have made it VGA, i read your 1st post which stated exactly that!!! lol
projection said:
Hello,
I have made a video encoding GUI for the blackstone, which allows smooth playback of hi-res videos in album.
With the recent change of adding VGA resolution to the GUI, it should now be usable on the diamond and raphael.
The original thread is located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
Could someone be so kind to encode a couple of movies/trailers or short clips and tell me how the playback is in album on the Diamond?
Thank you.
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done testing!!!!
amazing quality!!! better the the settings i have for the coreplayer!!
the prob i get with coreplayer is that evry 1-2 min the video skips a frame!!
but after watching the video on HTC ALBUM no frame losses what so ever!!!
did further testing played this file in coreplayer and the same skiping of frames but real smooth in ALBUM!!!
gr8 work btw!!
video length= 0:22:20
File size after coversion=106MB before conversion 180MB
hope this help you!!
Core player can not handle these files.
Album uses hardware accelerated playback. Coreplayer does not (yet).
Thank you for your help.
Post further feedback in the original thread if you wish.
azharsunny said:
done testing!!!!
amazing quality!!! better the the settings i have for the coreplayer!!
the prob i get with coreplayer is that evry 1-2 min the video skips a frame!!
but after watching the video on HTC ALBUM no frame losses what so ever!!!
did further testing played this file in coreplayer and the same skiping of frames but real smooth in ALBUM!!!
gr8 work btw!!
video length= 0:22:20
File size after coversion=106MB before conversion 180MB
hope this help you!!
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The converted file didn't show up in HTC album... and hence I can play it using the album...
But WMP can play the video...
Any ideas why?
BTW, I'm using official ROM (2.03.707.2 WWE)
Hi Everybody,
first of all thank for everythings in this site, you are great.
Now, i have a problem with my diamond.
I've never tried to export a video made with the diamond, from the device to a computer, in this case a mac.
well.. it doesn't work... I've downloaded the new VLC version, but the only better thing is that I can see the video, but WITHOUT sounds.
Probably you've already talked about this problem, does anybody can help me?
thanks so much
You can capture video in either H.263 or mp4 format. Try both and see which one your Mac support.
You should be able to capture in 3GP and edit with Quicktime on a Mac...
you can also just convert the video to a friendlier format that's easier to deal with: http://www.fuzemobility.com/?p=981
As you may know, the Nook color has PowerVR SGX530 Graphics chip, which is also available on Droid 2 and Droid X.
This chip is pretty good when it comes to medium 3D performance and video playback. It can play videos quite nicely, but only the formats that it knows. Other formats will need to be played using software, which will give you medicore level playback.
If you have an MP4 files (which are encoded with H.264 Base level encoding), those files will play with hardware decoding great. However, if you have other video content (episodes, both in AVI/XVid or MKV/H.264 format), Nook will play them badly with 3rd party software (rock player, vplayer, etc).
Thats where FFMPEG could help a lot, if you're using Linux, all you need to do is install ffmpeg and run the following command:
Code:
ffmpeg -y -threads 8 -i myvideo.avi -b 800k -bt 1000k -vcodec libx264 -vpre default -vpre baseline -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 128k mynewvideo.mp4
the "myvideo.avi" is your original AVI file, and "mynewvideo.mp4" is the new MP4 file which could be played nicely on the Nook Color. Please note: if your video is bigger then 854x480, then you need to add the -s XxY where XxY is the width:height of the video (example: 640x352). If your video needs a new aspect ratio, you can use the -aspect parameter (example: -aspect 16:9)
If you're using a mac, then handbrake is your friend, as other tools which are based on ffmpeg.
On Windows you can either install FFMPEG for Windows, or you can use An application called "Any Video converter", and simply select your original file name, Select X264 as video codec, and convert. The output file should be played well.
No matter what conversion software you use, make sure that the H.264 profile that you use is set to base-level (or "base"). Anything higher cannot be played by the nook without frame skipping.
If you want to test if your video can be played with hardware acceleration, upload your video to your Nook (or to the Micro SD card), open any file manager and click on the mp4 file. Try to play the video with the "Movies" built in app. If the app will recognize your video, it will play it without any issues or frame skipping.
Good luck
Hetz
HandBrake can be used on Windows also
I read there are aspect ratio issues with the built in player. But I also read that even in mp4 base other video players can't take advantage of the hardware playback accel (proprietary drivers). Is that correct?
Handbrake doesn't work for windows?
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Handbrake doesn't work for windows?
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Handbrake works great on Windows. Encoded a few this week for the Nook and ran like buttah.
Out of curiosity, why not just use RockPlayer. I'm yet to get an NC so I may be missing something.
It runs kind of choppy on video files encoded with anything other H.264/MPEG4 and the audio seems to get out of sync quickly
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HandBrake can be used on Windows also
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And linux.
the latest version of rock player seems to have a lot better handle on audio sync...
we can never watch the avi videos without converting ?
Maybe
yemin88 said:
we can never watch the avi videos without converting ?
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It really depends how the official Froyo update (coming in January) will improve performance.
rock player works fine... the problem is that you cant have above a 480p video. the reason is its not the audio thats lagging its the video studdering and thats whats causing the lagg
The topic title should read "how to watch videos on your nook if you run Linux"
You added all the settings you need for it, but not for the other operating systems lol You can run the file through any of these programs, (speaking Mac/Win) but just because you encode it with H.264 doesn't mean its going to play smoothly. If your source file is 1080p, this obviously isn't going to work.
My source file is:
H.264
Deinterlaced
720p
30fps
VBR 1 pass
AAC. 192kbps 48kHz, Stereo
So far Im at a video file @ 1024x576 at 15fps (tried to pull the Consistent Quality slider to 100%, but didn't see much differance) thats had the smoothest playback.
Now Im pretty much brand new to video editing and making, are there any settings I could be useing to make this file more smooth using Handbreak....or even more so In Adobe Premiere?
Im basically trying to see what the highest quality the Nook can take. Not to mention a continuous video of my coral reef while Im at work sitting next to me on my NC would b kinda epic
I use DropFolders. It uses HandBrake & you set it up with a watch folder & a destination folder. All you do is drop a video in the watch folder & it converts the file & puts it in your destination folder. You set up the HandBrake arguements in Drop Folders. Works like a charm.
Cheers,
kev
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The topic title should read "how to watch videos on your nook if you run Linux"
You added all the settings you need for it, but not for the other operating systems lol You can run the file through any of these programs, (speaking Mac/Win) but just because you encode it with H.264 doesn't mean its going to play smoothly. If your source file is 1080p, this obviously isn't going to work.
My source file is:
H.264
Deinterlaced
720p
30fps
VBR 1 pass
AAC. 192kbps 48kHz, Stereo
So far Im at a video file @ 1024x576 at 15fps (tried to pull the Consistent Quality slider to 100%, but didn't see much differance) thats had the smoothest playback.
Now Im pretty much brand new to video editing and making, are there any settings I could be useing to make this file more smooth using Handbreak....or even more so In Adobe Premiere?
Im basically trying to see what the highest quality the Nook can take. Not to mention a continuous video of my coral reef while Im at work sitting next to me on my NC would b kinda epic
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According to the published specs for the NC, the default app will not play video above 854x480. If you want to use hardware decoding through the default app, you'll need to scale that down from 1024.
I have several videos encoded using one of the latest nightly builds of handbrake for NC, and with the constant quality set at 20, playback is flawless. You can use the "Apple Universal" setting to get the required baseline profile for MP4 and then adjust the video size as you like.
You can also use the "High Profile" and change some settings and per HERE. I was, however, able to set the max width above 720, unlike the third poster.
Innnnnnteresting! Thank you! I will give this a shot and see what I come up with
I posted a handbrake preset here. It works well for me.
Hi why can you try rockplayer for play video like divx
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Don't worry, I found an easy way to convert videos for nook color, read the article "Nook Color Video Converter Review – easy play any video on Nook Color"
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Got a Nook Color over the weekend, and video looks great using the Handbrake preset posted here... I'm using Autonooter, and the built in Gallery app to play it. However, I'm curious, if I decided to try out Honeycomb, will other video player apps use hardware decoding with files encoded with the Handbrake preset, or is it limited to the stock Nook app? Thanks!
I am a movie buff and I like watching them on my phone. I upgraded from a LG Env Touch that I had no problem watching videos. Now that I have a Droid 3 I have not found an app that will let me play my videos. I have install a bunch to find out they will not play my videos in any format. I have tried Mobo player that I was told was the best and that it played most if not all video formats but when I go to click on the folder in which to scan in it shows no videos. If I go to the file folder in apps where the video files would be I click on a video and it ask me what app do I want to play this file and when I select Mobo sometimes it plays but most of the time it won’t. Someone please help with these apps so I can play my movies. I have tried everything I can think of I am a computer person but I think I am doing something wrong. I have tried almost all formats and I have set the conversion program to convert the video to the Droid 3's accepted format and screen res of 980 by 540 and still can't get it to play. What is messed up is that the Motorola app ZumoCast plays all my video off my computer by a 3g connection linked to my computer but I can't find a standalone app that will do this. "Please help me"
I know it's by no means a fancy video player, but I have no issues loading on videos and watching them in QuickPic. I use .wmv shrunk down so the height is 480 and the width whatever keeps the original ratio. I placed them in the external SD card's DCIM folder then added that folder to QuickPic's gallery. I like QP because it allows you to select which folders are in your gallery. Essentially, you could have a folder called "movies" and that would be a sub-folder in your QP gallery.
I use the classic rock player and it plays anything.
Ok, I've made a nice animation, resulting in numbered PNG files. I'm able to merge them into a video file with VirtualDub and save to AVI. Then I changed the container to MP4. The file shows up in 360 videos but does not playback (you stay in space with the stars around you).
Now I've tried many different compression settings, even different codecs (although h264 should work) but no matter what I try, it doesnt work. The only way I can get it to playback is by uploading it to Youtube and downloading it again. However Youtube applied super compression and the resulting file looks pretty bad.
Please have a look at my file and tell me what I'm doing wrong .. (this is a very short version because I was getting memory errors with large files)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6932160/TestAnim05.mp4
Any help much appreciated