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ThirtyBird · 03-04-2011, 12:54 PM

This is a great thread for Nook Color owners who wish to play video - thanks to the helpful posters! I've been converting DVD's & TV Captures etc to watch from my hard drive since the days of Divx 3.11alpha, but I can still learn something new!

The single most important thing I learned from this thread may help you belle2be. The Nook Color supports 264 "baseline" encodes only - what this means is that in handbrake, you MUST ensure several settings on the Advanced tab are set properly. Those being :

Maximum B-Frames : Must be 0!
CABAC Entropy Coding : must be unchecked
8x8 Transform : must be unchecked
Weighted P-Frames : must be unchecked

reference : https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic...p=78494#p78491

I had trouble with encodes that work on my Droid not working on my NC. If you hover over each of these options, handbrake gives you a bit of help on them, and once I learned this and made those changes, it was smooth sailing and working video from there!

For those who want more details: If you check out the wiki for h.264, it gives a good description of profiles. It looks to me like encoding "baseline" will lose some quality and some features, but looks like it would be compatible with a wide variety of devices.

03-04-2011, 12:54 PM	#156
ThirtyBird Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 280 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Nook Color	This is a great thread for Nook Color owners who wish to play video - thanks to the helpful posters! I've been converting DVD's & TV Captures etc to watch from my hard drive since the days of Divx 3.11alpha, but I can still learn something new! The single most important thing I learned from this thread may help you belle2be. The Nook Color supports 264 "baseline" encodes only - what this means is that in handbrake, you MUST ensure several settings on the Advanced tab are set properly. Those being : Maximum B-Frames : Must be 0! CABAC Entropy Coding : must be unchecked 8x8 Transform : must be unchecked Weighted P-Frames : must be unchecked reference : https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic...p=78494#p78491 I had trouble with encodes that work on my Droid not working on my NC. If you hover over each of these options, handbrake gives you a bit of help on them, and once I learned this and made those changes, it was smooth sailing and working video from there! For those who want more details: If you check out the wiki for h.264, it gives a good description of profiles. It looks to me like encoding "baseline" will lose some quality and some features, but looks like it would be compatible with a wide variety of devices.