Nook HD+ has a video resolution limit?

[taiwwa]

nook HD+

I've been trying to get some videos to work on it.

highest resolution video is 960x540.

Anything higher, even 720p, it will say, "we cannot play this video".

This is a huge disappointment. doesn't the hardware itself boast 1080p playback? So why this limitation?

It looks like the only way is to root it.

 

[someone0]

Yes, it can play 1080p w/o problem, in fact many of us even STREAM 1080p video off from a PC/NAS w/o problem. Most likely the culprit is the player/codec. I prefer and many have agree that BSplayer is probably so far the best video player on android.

 

[taiwwa]

Yes, it can play 1080p w/o problem, in fact many of us even STREAM 1080p video off from a PC/NAS w/o problem. Most likely the culprit is the player/codec. I prefer and many have agree that BSplayer is probably so far the best video player on android.

I have found the culprit.

It turns out the nook is very sensitive to audio input.

Basically, it needs stereo AAC. Cannot take 5.1 anything. Cannot take MP3 either. Needs to be AAC.

instead of handbrake, you can just use avidmux to passthrough the video input and transcode the audio to stereo AAC. Even for MKV files.

 

[someone0]

Ithink 5.1 is fine. I never dowmgrade audio from 5.1 to stereo anyway.