General Discussion - Does Surface RT Video Players paly 1080p/720p movie? lydia622520 - Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:21 pm Post subject: Does Surface RT Video Players paly 1080p/720p movie?
After getting the 10.6-inch Microsoft Windows Surfce RT tablet, I found it supports to play 16:9 movies with some video players. As far as I know, there are three top movie players for the excellent device. They are the built-in Xbox Video, PressPlay Video and mobile.HD Video Player. In fact, they all supports a lot of HD video formats. But the tablet lacks a powerful video playback solution and didn’t include Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center, it may don't play 1080p/720p video smoothly though with the bellow three players.
Xbox Video
Launch the video player app and it immediately loads the Xbox Video store. This app can playback movies loaded on the internal storage or microSD card, but it’s primarily designed to be a video store. And like the Xbox dashboard it emulates, there are ads here too. After testing, I found it recognises MOV, MTS, WMV, MP4, AVI, ect formats.
PressPlay Video
Pressplay Video is an app for Windows 8 or Windows RT. Media Player providing the best experience for playing your local video files (including MKV and FLV). It also comes with an integrated explorer which displays the folders inside your libraries, removable devices, HomeGroup and media servers. While, some problems exist still. MKV playback has been pretty buggy. Conversion and seek times are slow, the frame rate 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.
mobile.HD Video Player
You can play .mkv and other popular video format on Surface/RT/Windows 8 computer, but the lack of .dts audio support prevents this from being usable at the moment.
I have used the three apps, they can play some popular video files like AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, but none of the video player can ensure playing all 1080p/720p movies files on Surface RT flawlessly especially the MKV container format. Many users want to know how to play any HD videos on Microsoft Surface RT smoothly with them. To enjoy movies on Surface RT without any playback problem, I found the top Video Converter for Windows RT. With it, I can re-encode any 1080p, 720p HD movie to a playable format like MP4 for transferring to RT for watching freely. The conversion is fast and it only needs 3 steps.
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