Anyway to keep Nook Color from vertically stretching video?

[gar655]

Just got a NC. Seems pretty nice. Screen is very nice. The videos I convert with handbrake are no where near 480 pixels vertically and the Nook player stretches them.

I don't want to root at this time. Is there any way to keep the videos from being stretched?

And why can I only access 1gb of its built in storage?

Thanks
Gene

 

[ChronoReverse]

If you use something like mvideoplayer from the Market, you can set the aspect ratio.

 

[poofyhairguy]

If you use Moboplayer from the market you can easily play divx files that max the resolution of the Nook Color.

If you don't want to root, the only option is to encode x264 videos for the Nook Color.

For x264 videos the CPU cannot handle them, and its DSP is limited to the resolution of 854x480. Keep it under that, and it will play fine, but yes that means there is some stretching to make it fit the screen.

The trick is to encode with a high enough bitrate that the scaling doesn't matter. In Handbrake I use:

A constant quality settings of 21
Loose Anamorphic
Forcibly set the resolution barely under the limit (I usually do 848x480)
Set max B-frames to zero
Turn off CABAC entropy coding
Turn off 8x8 transform
Turn off weighted P-frames

The 1GB of storage is for apps, the rest B&N leaves for your purchases from them. You can repartition it if you are willing to get your hands dirty (way beyond just rooting).

 

[gar655]

If you use Moboplayer from the market you can easily play divx files that max the resolution of the Nook Color.

If you don't want to root, the only option is to encode x264 videos for the Nook Color.

For x264 videos the CPU cannot handle them, and its DSP is limited to the resolution of 854x480. Keep it under that, and it will play fine, but yes that means there is some stretching to make it fit the screen.

The trick is to encode with a high enough bitrate that the scaling doesn't matter. In Handbrake I use:

A constant quality settings of 21
Loose Anamorphic
Forcibly set the resolution barely under the limit (I usually do 848x480)
Set max B-frames to zero
Turn off CABAC entropy coding
Turn off 8x8 transform
Turn off weighted P-frames

The 1GB of storage is for apps, the rest B&N leaves for your purchases from them. You can repartition it if you are willing to get your hands dirty (way beyond just rooting).

Thanks. All of my videos are fine for width. But they all come in under 480 for height mostly like in the 350 range so the NC stretches them vertically making everyone supermodel tall and thin

It's not a major issue but still. By using your settings will that do the stretching in handbrake or does it somehow manage to avoid it?

My vids are like 853 and 854 by 325-355 after conversion.

Thanks again.

 

[poofyhairguy]

It's not a major issue but still. By using your settings will that do the stretching in handbrake or does it somehow manage to avoid it?

Using the loose anamorphic setting should fix that. I will admit though that the default set of Nook Color codecs are limited, so you might hit some bug that forces a weird stretch if you have a non-default source. If that is the case, you may really consider rooting to get at Mobo Player.

Everything I have is either a HD TV show or movie source, and it works perfect for me.