Stream movies, photos, music to Nook Color from Mac OS DLNA Servers

How to stream and play movies, photos, music on Nook Color from Mac OS DLNA Servers

Do you have the 7-inch 1024x600 resolution Nook color? It has a customizable display with color options, six font sizes, and internet browsing over Wi-Fi, and a built-in media player that supports audio and video. Thus, why not stream movies, photos, music to Nook Color from Mac OS DLNA Servers for enjoyment?

Mac OS DLNA Servers: Twonky Server, Orb, Majestic, Playback, MediaLink. We try to transfer movie files from the iMAC/Server for playback on the Nook Color.

Twonky Mobile (not twonky Mobile Server) worked best. It played movies, music and photos from Twonky Server, Majestic, and Playback. But we were only able to stream Music from the Orb server. The only complaint is that the quality of playback is not so consistent. But this may be caused by the WLAN bandwidth/coverage.

UPnPlayer worked as well. We did not care for the UI and playlist process. Also, it locked up when We tried to play/view photos. It played Movies and Music from Twonky Server, Majestic, and Playback). We can only stream Music from the Orb server.. The best thing about UPnPlayer is that it let's you choose which APP will actually Play the media (i.e. stock music player or Doubletwist, Stock Video or Rockplayer, etc.)

2Player – We are able to see all the Server applications. But it would not present the media folders from several for them. We can play music from Orb and Playback. The interface was good, but too bad it just for music.

EML UPnP – It was able to see most of the Media Servers. But Music just appeared only.

DLNA Supported Video/Audio Format:
Audio LPCM AAC, AC-3, ATRAC 3plus, MP3, WMA9 .
AV MPEG2 MPEG-1, MPEG-4*, AVC, WMV9.

Nook Color Supported Video/Audio Format:
3GP, MP4, 3G2, FLV H.263, H.264, MPEG-4, ON2 VP7
AAC, AAC+, AMR, MP3, MIDI, LPCM

From above, you how to throw video files to Nook Color from Mac OS DLNA Servers? Solutions: Convert videos/movies to MPEG-4 cmpatible format for Nook Color& DLNA on Mac.

Step 1: Import video/movie files to the best Video Converter for Nook Color Mac.
Run the best Nook Color Video Converter for Mac. Click the button “File” to add MKV, MOV, VOB, MTS, MOD, AVI, TiVo videos/movies to the it.

Step 2: Select MPEG-4 as the output format for Nook Color& DLNA and set the output folder.
Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Common Video”, from the sublist, you can easily find out the “MPEG-4 Movie(*.mp4)” format which is the friendly format for Nook Color& DLNA. Afterwards, you can set the output folder as you like.

Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters for Nook Color.
Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can manually set the video size as 854*480 to play videos on Nook Color in full screen.

Step 4: Start converting your videos/movies to MPEG-4 for Nook Color& DLNA on Mac.
Click the “Convert” button; it will convert video, movie to Nook Color& DLNA on Mac immediately.

You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface. After the conversion, you ill be able to get the output files for Nook Color& DLNA via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now you can transfer movie, video files to Nook Color from Mac OS DLNA Servers without any trouble.