MKV Player for Surface and Windows 8

[Eins.MY]

mobile.HD Video Player : Now you can play mkv and other popular video format on Surface/RT/Windows 8 computer.

Price is $2.49 with free trial...the developers said more improvements and features will be added soon.

Haven't try yet...but 356 MB for video player is kind of ridiculous...

[ArialBlue]

FLAC? Subtitles? Vobris?

[primexx]

for that price you can support the VLC port instead http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1061646928/vlc-for-the-new-windows-8-user-experience-metro

[Mohitster]

What can it possibly contain in 356 MB? :o

[Eins.MY]

  On 03/12/2012 at 06:00, ArialBlue said:

FLAC? Subtitles? Vobris?

I use AIMP3 with metro skin to play FLAC (desktop app) though

  On 03/12/2012 at 06:21, primexx said:

for that price you can support the VLC port instead http://www.kickstart...xperience-metro

$2.49 is ok, and I've already donated to VLC Metro port

but VLC Metro is still 3-4 months away to be ready...and ARM version will take longer time

[Nothing Here]

VLC plays all that and more. For free. It may not be a Metro app, but it works on Win8.

[Eins.MY]

Currently using the trial version of this app,

will try more video and audio format and report later

[jakem1]

  On 03/12/2012 at 05:59, Eins.MY said:

mobile.HD Video Player : Now you can play mkv and other popular video format on Surface/RT/Windows 8 computer.

The lack of dts audio support prevents this from being usable at the moment. I'm using Pressplay Video on my Surface instead as it includes full support for mkvs.

[Eins.MY]

  On 03/12/2012 at 07:13, jakem1 said:

The lack of dts audio support prevents this from being usable at the moment. I'm using Pressplay Video on my Surface instead as it includes full support for mkvs.

just tried PressPlay, works great, thanks for suggestion bro

will add that to first post so that more people will know

[Kyang]

PressPlay's MKV playback has been pretty buggy for me. Conversion and seek times are slow, the framerate of converted videos is jumpy, the audio is way out of sync, and more often than not the app will simply crash after fast forwarding for a couple seconds.

I'm still relying on the desktop MPC-HC for MKV, FLV, etc.

[Eins.MY]

Update : PressPlay : support mkv and subtitle

thanks jakem for pointing it out

[MorganX]

@jakem1 Nice find.

[Eins.MY]

New app : Yxplayer - can play almost any format of video including avi/mkv/etc...also supports subtitles

However, the interface is a bit ugly and it costs $4.49 and only support x86/x64...not yet ARM compatibilities

[lsquare]

  On 03/12/2012 at 07:31, Eins.MY said:

Update : PressPlay : support mkv and subtitle

thanks jakem for pointing it out

What's the difference between Mobile.HD Media Player and PressPlay? I rather go with a free solution if it does what I need.

[PGHammer]

  On 03/12/2012 at 05:59, Eins.MY said:

mobile.HD Video Player : Now you can play mkv and other popular video format on Surface/RT/Windows 8 computer.

Price is $2.49 with free trial...the developers said more improvements and features will be added soon.

Haven't try yet...but 356 MB for video player is kind of ridiculous...

For non-RT Windows 8 PCs, VLC still works (it's still my MKV format player of choice).

[George P Global Moderator]

Have they started on the winrt version of vlc yet? I know they got all the kick starter money they needed iirc. Also how about a mpc-hc winrt version? He'll if it works and plays all the formats I have then I wouldn't mind paying a small fee to get the app, say, $5 tops.