Kindle Fire HD 7 Choppy Video with HW Mode

[Deku_Tree]

Hi,

I hear that if I use Hardware mode I can get the best battery life on my Kindle Fire HD 7.

I have been messing with different settings for encoding and have had many mixed results. It seems only software decoding plays the best.

What do I need to use Hardware Decoding because it gives much better battery life, and I won't be near an outlet for awhile.

Software Decoding doesn't get choppy or dropped frames.

I won't be using any streaming. I want to copy the video directly on the device.

What do you use for your compression settings?

Is there anything I'm missing?

Source material was in HD.

I used
MP4 .h264 w/aac stereo
1024x428
1280x800
1280x720

Bitrate was
1348 kbps for video
160 kbps for audio in stereo.

Pleas help.

Deku