I know there's a lot of threads like these, but everything I could pull up seemed really out of date, or didn't have the information I need. The Wiki was good, but just gave a list of all the builds out there, and I can't sort out which one is currently best for what. I'm hoping someone can give me some quick answers:
tl:dr: Have a brand new Nook Color. Video will be 95% of what it's used for, little to no web browsing or games. Would like to use it to watch movies/TV shows streamed from my NAS or off the SD card. 5% of use will be viewing photos directly off my digital camera's SD cards (using converters in the cameras).
Tell me what OS/Software to use. Most files are .mkv format, usually 720p.
Currently, I've got Nookie Froyo installed on the SD card, and after a lot of frustration of how the heck to actually get files onto the SD card while also having the OS on there, I found that bootloader NookColorUMS thing, which even though it seems like more steps than should be needed, has allowed me to copy files to the SD card with the nook connected via USB cable.
I'd like to have the OS installed internally, so I'm free to swap SD cards around to quickly move data around. Also so I can pull the SD cards out of my cameras, stick them in the nook, and browse the photos.
Currently I'm using Rockplayer Lite, which plays the 480p files fine, but craps out trying to play 720p. It also is very annoying in that it it has no back button in the UI that I can figure out, so you have to use that tweek to force the status bar to always be on top, which is annoying. If there's any way to get the stock player to play the files, that would be best. I know it should be possible, my Samsung Moment plays all these files naively with the build-in movie player. But the Gallery player won't play them on this version of Froyo that I've got on here.
My questions boil down to:
-What OS should I use if I'm going to go through the trouble of figuring out how to install in on the internal memory?
-What's the best video player/codec pack?
-How do I browse/play files off my shared drives on my computers and NAS unit?
Thank you for any answers you can give, or any directions you can point me in!
Hope this helps.
-What OS should I use if I'm going to go through the trouble of figuring out how to install in on the internal memory?
CM7 - try phiremod nook
-What's the best video player/codec pack?
I've been using handbrake to convert all my video to MP4 using these settings.
-How do I browse/play files off my shared drives on my computers and NAS unit?
PlayOn works pretty good. Depending on the source video type i get some sync issues.
Easiest install method
#1 Install Clockwork Recovery Mod to internal memory from your bootable SD card.
#2 Drop your desired rom on the root of a non-bootable SD card
#3 Restart into Clockwork Recovery Mod by powering on with n button held down
#4 Backup!
#5 Flash zip from sdcard
Now as far as video... I think you might be disappointed. You are going to need to reencode each video for the nook to get best results.
I recommend Phiremod Nook 6.2
Thanks for the reply's everyone. I'll get CM7 installed tonight.
I'm REALLY hoping to not have to convert videos to be able to play them on the Nook. That was basically the reason I DIDN'T get an iPad, I don't want to have to convert videos into a specific format to play them. All of these files played fine on my Moment, I guess I made the mistake of assuming they'd work fine on any Android device.
Is there no way to just be able to browse a network, and view/play videos and pictures on them? It seems like it should be such a basic feature.
What other good video players are available besides Rockplayer? Or, how would I install additional codecs to get the build-in video player to work?
I think Vitalplayer Neon and Mobo player are pretty good for the nook.
TL;DR; ?? Reaally?!?
Not reading (repeatedly the same instructions over), being impatient and rushing headlong into things is the easiest way to muck things up. We're just lucky NCs are impossible to be permanently bricked.
Tsaven said:
-What OS should I use if I'm going to go through the trouble of figuring out how to install in on the internal memory?
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CM7 latest nightly (n86 onwards) has the newest fix for audio and video, while being on the .32 kernel and have support for an Overclock kernel. Smoothest vid playback I've ever seen, without any mucking about in re-encoding in Handbrake, etc.
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-What's the best video player/codec pack?
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I use moboplayer. 720p vids are a touch-n-go, some are OK, some are not. But if the HW acceleration (of the .32 kernel) doesn't cut it, moboplayer has the soft-decoding option.
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-How do I browse/play files off my shared drives on my computers and NAS unit?
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Cifsmanager.
Just install, no other tweaking necessary. All extra files (mentioned in older thread abt this) have been in the CM7 ROM since n30s or n40s (or n50s, I can't remember really ).
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Hello xda-members.
Cause I don't have 10 posts in your pleasant forum here, I am not able to post in the dev-part directly concerning the MOD for the camera.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090785
So I'll try here...
I just installed the new 1.1.3.4 Version (128) via Astro-FM. First i deleted the cam app via Titanium-B. The 64 and 96 Version seem to be broken @tm. The method via CWM doesn't work either.
Now if I record a video in 1080p the sound and the video are quite suspended. I Doesn't matter if I choose the internal SD or external. I'm running the Fr17 Modaco (prebake)
720 works fine instead.
So, does anyone else face this problem too? Any suggestions? If it's possible i'd like to post in the dev-thread...
Kind regards
Are you saving your video to external SD card??? if so id try saving it to the internal, as the r/w will be faster than the external.
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Now if I record a video in 1080p the sound and the video are quite suspended. I Doesn't matter if I choose the internal SD or external. I'm running the Fr17 Modaco (prebake)
720 works fine instead.
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As said, doesn't matter.
I just sent the videos to my PC. There's no out of synch. Perfect match of sound and image. Seems to be a player problem on the mobile device...
I'd like to know if others have the same issue...?
TheReino said:
As said, doesn't matter.
I just sent the videos to my PC. There's no out of synch. Perfect match of sound and image. Seems to be a player problem on the mobile device...
I'd like to know if others have the same issue...?
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yes, since the 1.st version !
when playing back on device, sound is not in sync with video ...
i guess it could be the player app, i´m using LG video player ...
by the way, i corrected wrong update zip, now you can flash via CWM ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090785&page=21
You're right. With the first Version I also didn't realize the problem.
For now I tested with rockplayer and the original LG. With both players the sound and image are out of synch on the P990.
I don't even have a clue whats happening with the files or players... May both internal and external SD card are to slow? Who knows. I have a class 4 external SD. But I think even 4 MB writespeed would be enought for the 17Mbit stream...
17Mbit / 8 = 2,125 Megabyte
Even a good class 2 card would be enought...
Is it possible to play big .mkv files of 5-9GB on the Galaxy Note ?
If yes, can we just format SD Card to NTFS and the phone will recogonize it... OR do i have to do sum rooting and sum complex stuff for the phone to identify the card?
Also, can we play big files frm phones internal memory ?
I dont have the device myself, but by using lots of different Android devices, I would think it wont read NTFS drivers. I have used some Honeycomb tablet that had modules and custom apps to mount NTFS drives.
I think the device should support EXT2 formatted card, but if you were using linux with that filesystem already you wouldn't ask this.
I use softwares like AviDemux to split the MKV file. Also is there actually any Android software that provides hardware acceleration for MKV files, otherwise I would think HD MKV files would struggle to play smoothly.
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I dont have the device myself, but by using lots of different Android devices, I would think it wont read NTFS drivers. I have used some Honeycomb tablet that had modules and custom apps to mount NTFS drives.
I think the device should support EXT2 formatted card, but if you were using linux with that filesystem already you wouldn't ask this.
I use softwares like AviDemux to split the MKV file. Also is there actually any Android software that provides hardware acceleration for MKV files, otherwise I would think HD MKV files would struggle to play smoothly.
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Hull 1080p, works fine. Many videos on youtube!
Note can't play files over 4gb. Use an mkv splitter instead.
Using Es file manager network access + dice player worked well watching mkv files > 8GB over a network share.
Of course this approach may not be suitable for everybody.
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Note can't play files over 4gb. Use an mkv splitter instead.
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What software actually just split the files and dont actually recode/encode them, so that the procedure is completed in a minute? please suggest a few...
Also, are you referring to this software?
http://www.mkvsplitter.com/
Sproxy,
Tht seems too complicated to sum1 who never used android before!
Sry Double post
I am sry but i have to bump this, as i am still looking answer to my last post above ^ [#6]
You can use MKVToolNix to easily split without re-encoding the files...
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You can use MKVToolNix to easily split without re-encoding the files...
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Seconded, with mkvtoolnix it's actually very easy to do this, just load up the file, give a new file output name, set the file to split every e.g. 4000M and go.
It will take a while, but you get a serially-named group of files which are (as far as I can tell) exactly the same as the input, but split into 4000MB chunks. Dead easy.
Pity that the siyah kernel does not work on the note yet.
Siyah Kernel supports NTFS mounting of SD and USB-Storage.
I have Nook Color 8GB with 2GB microSD card. I want to save a few movies to my Nook for my upcoming long flight and wonder what the best way to do it is. Could somebody please answer these two questions for me:
1. Can I copy videos to Nook's internal memory to take advantage of the 8GB?
2. Which video converter and which settings one should use to get the smallest file size possible with a decent quality?
alosito said:
I have Nook Color 8GB with 2GB microSD card. I want to save a few movies to my Nook for my upcoming long flight and wonder what the best way to do it is. Could somebody please answer these two questions for me:
1. Can I copy videos to Nook's internal memory to take advantage of the 8GB?
2. Which video converter and which settings one should use to get the smallest file size possible with a decent quality?
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I do copy videos to my internal memory; however, they cannot be seen by the video player in that location. I find that the internal memory is a great place to ‘store’ the videos, but they need to be moved to the SD card (at least that is where I move them) when you are ready to watch them.
As for the video conversion, I use HANDBRAKE which is very easy to use and free. If you google NOOK settings for HANDBRAKE you can easily locate the configuration for the Nook Color.
Hope this helps and have a safe trip.
rnclock said:
I do copy videos to my internal memory; however, they cannot be seen by the video player in that location. I find that the internal memory is a great place to ‘store’ the videos, but they need to be moved to the SD card.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Which application do you use to move files from the internal memory to the SD card?
alosito said:
Thanks for the suggestion. Which application do you use to move files from the internal memory to the SD card?
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I use Root Explorer (cost, but worth it) for all my file exploring needs.
I use mobo to watch tv shows on my internal memory. Works great.
Sent from space
+1 for mobo and no converting to mp4.
alosito said:
I have Nook Color 8GB with 2GB microSD card. I want to save a few movies to my Nook for my upcoming long flight and wonder what the best way to do it is. Could somebody please answer these two questions for me:
1. Can I copy videos to Nook's internal memory to take advantage of the 8GB?
2. Which video converter and which settings one should use to get the smallest file size possible with a decent quality?
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1. Yes, you can. Mobo player or Rock player played almost every file format perfectly fine no matter they are stored in the internal memory or external uSD card.
Side note: you never has 8GB of internal memory. To know how much, pls check it under Storage. If your NC is new, most likely you only have 1GB.
2. Handbrake is great tool.
When I connect my Nook Color to the computer, I see the drive called MyNOOKcolor, but its capacity is only 1 GB. Is it supposed to be that little? No way to take advantage of the full 8GB?
@alosito,
You will never have 8gb available as the system uses some of it to boot up. I repartitioned mine by following the guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371 .
As far as your two questions above.
1. You can copy anything to your emmc and access it. Before I got my 16gb sd card, I put movies there unconverted. But a feature length movie can be brought down to the native screen resolution of the nook color using several converters including handbrake. All I did to access the movies was to use File Expert (free on the market) and navigate to the emmc to play the movie using rock player.
2. There are plenty of guides for handbrake and others to achieve this. I do not convert as I have a big enough card and rock player plays anything I throw at it. A converter that I use for work that has hundreds of presets is from Xilisoft. They make converters that go straight from blue ray or dvd to multiple formats/devices.
alosito said:
When I connect my Nook Color to the computer, I see the drive called MyNOOKcolor, but its capacity is only 1 GB. Is it supposed to be that little? No way to take advantage of the full 8GB?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
You will never get the "full 8G". The above should net you about 5G.
Repartition as above and consider this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
zires said:
I repartitioned mine by following the guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094371
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When I reboot in Recovery, I get "Install Failed" message. I have CM7 installed. What am I doing wrong?
You need to have a bootable sd to get this to work as it wipes everything on internal (emmc) memory. A CM7 rom should be on the bootable sd too.
+1, Redoing the partition on any drive totally wipes that drive.
Hi, I've bought 2x Nook HD+ for my young sons for Xmas and need to get them up and running before the big day. Apologies if my questions seem a bit basic, my knowledge is limited and I'm reading all I can to learn but don't have much time! I've decided not to root the Nooks in case I get it wrong and mess up Xmas, but i will probably have a go at some point. Does the Nook play videos & music on the stock rom? avi, mkv, mp4, plus mp3 sound files? or is there an app that will play them from a micro SD card? I'm planning on filling up a micro SD with loads of films for them to watch. Also, my lads currently use my ipad for games like angry birds etc, I presume these will play fine on the nook from the playstore? thanks
One that seems to get mentioned in forums and has high rating is Mx Player, I use it and is one of the first app I install when testing roms. Also for the software decoder, the Neon version is the one to get from play store, it's recommended by the developer (under settings). Use it to play ripped files of all kinds, including downloaded ones. Yes you can use this on the stock rom.
Yes I suggest you mx player, it plays any video up to 1080p fluently. Also Nook HD+ can run most of the games, even asphalt 8 on medium settings, so angry birds won't be problem at all.
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Nook's for younsters
First off, I also like the MX Player for videos. Seems to play 'em all by default with no additional config by me.
On to my question though, which I think may be appropriate here. I recycled a couple Nook HD's for young grandchildren. Loaded them with games, vids, pics, etc. In the process of recycling I discovered that the one that was originally mine, still had a lot of old browsing history type stuff on it even after I reinstalled CM10.1 to emmc. Things like online bank sites, ebay, amazon, etc. in the form of apk files. I found the info in a folder called "cm data", NOT just "data". I opened the tar.a & tar.b folders in a rom backup that I was going to use, to inspect them. That's how I discovered it. Needless to say I didn't use that backup.
I had assumed when I re-rooted, so to speak, and reinstalled 10.1, it would erase all the previous stuff. I guess it doesn't. I know pics & vids are not backed up during a ROM backup and are left intact on the device. Does anyone have a list of directories, folders & sub-folders that are NOT touched via a Rom backup, a root and/or a CM install?
This would be handy to know when recycling or simply getting rid of devices. Or perhaps there is a better reset method before recycling that does a good clean sweep? Thanks.
jck_p said:
First off, I also like the MX Player for videos. Seems to play 'em all by default with no additional config by me.
On to my question though, which I think may be appropriate here. I recycled a couple Nook HD's for young grandchildren. Loaded them with games, vids, pics, etc. In the process of recycling I discovered that the one that was originally mine, still had a lot of old browsing history type stuff on it even after I reinstalled CM10.1 to emmc. Things like online bank sites, ebay, amazon, etc. in the form of apk files. I found the info in a folder called "cm data", NOT just "data". I opened the tar.a & tar.b folders to inspect them. That's how I discovered it.
I had assumed when I re-rooted, so to speak, and reinstalled 10.1, it would erase all the previous stuff. I guess it doesn't. I know pics & vids are not backed up during a ROM backup and are left intact on the device. Does anyone have a list of directories, folders & sub-folders that are NOT touched via a Rom backup, a root and/or a CM install?
This would be handy to know when recycling or simply getting rid of devices. Or perhaps there is a better reset method before recycling that does a good clean sweep? Thanks.
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The factory reset command in CWM has been modified to not wipe the cm_data folder which is installed if you ran my or bokbokan's hybrid install. To wipe it fully including any media files and the old cm_data folder, do a format 'data and datamedia' in the mounts and storage menu in CWM. That clears everything.
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leapinlar said:
The factory reset command in CWM has been modified to not wipe the cm_data folder which is installed if you ran my or bokbokan's hybrid install. To wipe it fully including any media files and the old cm_data folder, do a format 'data and datamedia' in the mounts and storage menu in CWM. That clears everything.
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Cool! Thanks!
I recently upgraded to the latest SDCard version of CM 11 (available in the android development thread). I used to have CM 10.1, but the SD card got corrupted, so I decided to upgrade with a new sandisk class4 8GB card.
Most of the apps work fine (though at times there is a bit of a lag). Youtube works great.
However, I noticed that I am unable to play any video files - whether video is stored in sdcard or in the internal storage emmc - using any of the available video players like MX player, MOBO, VLC, Android, ESFile as well as the stock player. Most of them give the same error message "unfortunately mx player stopped". I tried MKV, AVI and MP4 formats. I tried changing between H/W decode and S/W decoding and downloaded the codecs also.
But, the same video could be played using the stock ROM using the same apps (MX Player, VLC etc.) flawlessly.
I tried wiping data/cache, reinstalling the app/codec etc. multiple times, still has the same issue.
Please help. According to the play store, MX player is compatible with android 4.4.3.
Is anyone else having similar issues with CM11? Do I need to downgrade to CM 10.2 or 10.1?
Also I noticed that a number of applications like banking, paypal, hulu+ etc. are unavailable for CM11 (and some even for the stock ROM). Any idea why? I know hulu+ used to work on 10.1 earlier.
Thanks in advance.
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Also I noticed that a number of applications like banking, paypal, hulu+ etc. are unavailable for CM11 (and some even for the stock ROM). Any idea why? I know hulu+ used to work on 10.1 earlier.
Thanks in advance.
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Hulu plus is available with cm11 on my phone but yes its shows that its not available on the nook hd+. There could be a way or two around that. One is to change the device name so google store thinks its something else and the other is to try sideloading - but the apps could be incompatiable with the tablet layout perhaps - its hard to say.
Videos run fine from cm11 emmc so don't know what's happening there. Videos can not be used with some things due to a size limit of say 2GB (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1714021) or other things. mkv, avi, mp4 are just containers and so perhaps they are compatible or perhaps they are not.
There could be another problem too perhaps with how the sdcard is formatted.
Some odd things sometimes.
I reinstalled everything from scratch using the latest version of sdcard kitkat rom from this forum and the video started working, but now chrome keeps crashing. After I removed chrome, when I try to reinstall it, I keep getting insufficient storage error, even after clearing using various cache cleaners. Earlier I could remove stuff from app-lib folder to get around this issue, now I am not even finding app-lib folder under /data.
Following are my observations from the last 3-4 days
- Interface is really laggy
- apps keep getting foce closed
- too many random reboots
- Suddenly one of my home screens (out of 3) vanished after one of those random reboots
I have a 3 year old touchpad with cm 10 which appears to be a lot more stable than the one running on nook (even cm 10.1 wasn't very stable on nook when I used it from sd card, I thought it was due to bad sd card, so I tried a new sdcard -sandisk class 4 as recommended here).
Really frustrated with cm 11 so far. May be I will go with an ipad instead.
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I reinstalled everything from scratch using the latest version of sdcard kitkat rom from this forum and the video started working, but now chrome keeps crashing. After I removed chrome, when I try to reinstall it, I keep getting insufficient storage error, even after clearing using various cache cleaners. Earlier I could remove stuff from app-lib folder to get around this issue, now I am not even finding app-lib folder under /data.
Following are my observations from the last 3-4 days
- Interface is really laggy
- apps keep getting foce closed
- too many random reboots
- Suddenly one of my home screens (out of 3) vanished after one of those random reboots
I have a 3 year old touchpad with cm 10 which appears to be a lot more stable than the one running on nook (even cm 10.1 wasn't very stable on nook when I used it from sd card, I thought it was due to bad sd card, so I tried a new sdcard -sandisk class 4 as recommended here).
Really frustrated with cm 11 so far. May be I will go with an ipad instead.
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Have you tried an internal (emmc) install yet? In my mind, there's no practical reason not to. Stock nook OS is awful.
Or just get an ipad. Those are great.
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Have you tried an internal (emmc) install yet? In my mind, there's no practical reason not to. Stock nook OS is awful.
Or just get an ipad. Those are great.
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I have heard sdcard sometimes works better. I wiped everything clean and did a reinstall with minimal number of apps and everything seems to be fine now including chrome and MX player. Thanks to everyone for providing helpful suggestions.
I have one more question,
Can I configure an SD card with cm11 and send it to someone elsewhere with an HD+? This person may not be able to do his own install of cm11, so I was thinking of sending the working copy of cm to him, so that he can just insert the card in the slot and reboot without having to worry about doing their own install.
Will it work? Or do they need to do anything special so that they can see the contents of emmc?
nookfan74 said:
I have one more question,
Can I configure an SD card with cm11 and send it to someone elsewhere with an HD+? This person may not be able to do his own install of cm11, so I was thinking of sending the working copy of cm to him, so that he can just insert the card in the slot and reboot without having to worry about doing their own install.
Will it work? Or do they need to do anything special so that they can see the contents of emmc?
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It will work. The only issue with doing that is they will have the same MACAddress as you. That is not really a problem unless you both try to connect to the same wifi network at the same time. Also don't register with Google with your account. Make a fresh install and either register with their credentials or don't register.
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