12-02-2010, 12:01 AM | #61 |
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Need to ask a dumb question. How do you reboot the nook? I tried holding the power down for 5 seconds, release and then hold the power down again for 2 seconds as some have instructed. But the nook comes back on immediately after I pushed the power the 2nd time so I don't even have a chance to hold it for 2 seconds. I am not sure if I am doing the rebooting correctly.
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12-02-2010, 03:31 AM | #62 | ||
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I believe it's rebooted by holding the power for 15 seconds or more, then you get the power off option. Damn, I swear, I wish I had a Nook Color right now. It'll probably be February before I can manage to get one... crap. CRAP! As for a sticky, I'm working on the guide which should hopefully be the better candidate for such a topic depending on how things work out. If it does, great, if not, no big deal I suppose. As long as someone out there is able to start making great looking videos (with audio, of course) for their Nook Color, it's worth the effort. Quote:
Native DVD format resolution is 720x480 max (NTSC in North America, PAL in other parts of the world is 720x576 iirc. So the best you'll get from converting an actual DVD to an mp4 or m4v file (same basic thing as far as playback is concerned) is 720 pixels wide, and the height will be determined by the aspect ratio of the source material. There's no way to "upscale" videos during the conversion process - that would create a lot of artifacting and is generally regarded as a very bad thing to do. The Harry Potter clip came directly from my retail Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire DVD ripped to my hard drive, hence it's 720 pixels wide natively and the aspect ration brings in the height at 304 pixels. Let the device itself do the upscaling as necessary which is what happens when you play a 720 pixel wide clip and it plays full screen anyway. Last edited by bbz_Ghost; 12-02-2010 at 03:37 AM. |
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That is: hold for 5 seconds, release for a tiny fraction of a second as you immediately start the hold for 2 seconds. You know you have rebooted when the screen goes black and you get a message about the Nook starting up. If the nook comes back immediately it has NOT rebooted. |
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I have a question for you guys. Have any of you been able to burn a copy of LOTR and have it play on the NC. I've tried 3 different programs (Handbrake and WinXDVD and a third which I can't remember the name of). Handbrake will not even recognize the disc and the other 2 will copy the movie but when I move it over to the NC it says that the file is unplayable. I've tried about every MP4 resolution including some of the recommendations from this thread with no luck. I do know that the disc has some sort of .exe file that it wants to install to play the files but other than that, I'm at a loss. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks
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Great thread, very helpful.
But has anyone else had difficulty changing the width or height in Handbrake? No matter what I try, the picture tab is completely greyed out, even the Anamorphic line. It won't let me edit or change any features. The other tabs work fine. |
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Cucusoft
I used the Deluxe edition of Cucusoft used the native iPad settings to convert some material to H.264 MP4. All the videos worked great on the NC.
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Okay So now Im going to ask a Noob question.
If I want to edit a DVD to play on my NC do I have to first burn the DVD to my computer using DVD decrypter or another program and then edit in Handbrake? I cant get Handbrake to access the VOB files that are on the DVD to edit.. |
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DVD Catalyst 4 (NOOKcolor Setting)
Just found this on a B&N forum. Person says there's a one-click conversion process with the NOOKcolor as a device choice. It's Windows based, but I know many Mac folks use Windows on their machine.
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12-15-2010, 01:40 PM | #72 |
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Wow, this is exactly what I've been having problems with! I'm trying to sideload .flv videos that I have downloaded from YouTube. What video format did you start out with?Any suggestions on the .flv?
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12-15-2010, 02:26 PM | #73 |
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OK bbz_Ghost, you obviously have forgotten more than I'll ever know about video formatting, encoding, etc. In a work, awesome. Everything you have posted makes sense, I've tried them, and they all work flawlessly. Now I want to create my own videos starting out with something simple like a youtube video downloaded using YouTube Downloader. It seems the default extension is .flv (whatever that is...). No matter what I try I can't seem to get Handshake to spit out anything that works on my rooted NC. Any suggestions?
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Got it! Using .flv file and the default HandBrake video settings (720x400), changed audio settings to 48 Khz/128kbps and it worked fine. Still couldn't have done it without you guys. Thanks!
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