[Q] Video Player for MKV (720p)

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Alias84270

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Hi everyone,

Well, i'm very happy of my surface RT, but i have one big problem : read my favourites series on my surface.

At the moment, i use "press play video" and my movies freeze all the time...

I tried to read the same movie from the sd card or from the internal storage, and the result is the same : freeze.

The result is the same with all my mkv.

does anyone have a solution?

thank's
 

cx1

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I haven't heard of any MKV player that work with any reliability. VLC player is in the pipeline but looking like vaporware at the moment.

I would suggest conversion or streaming them via Plex or similar that can transcode.
 

BIade

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Hi everyone,

Well, i'm very happy of my surface RT, but i have one big problem : read my favourites series on my surface.

At the moment, i use "press play video" and my movies freeze all the time...

I tried to read the same movie from the sd card or from the internal storage, and the result is the same : freeze.

The result is the same with all my mkv.

does anyone have a solution?

thank's

HD.Mobile Media Player ;)
 
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reggie14

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Is that still working for you OK? I tried the stock Xbox video app and mobile.HD media player and both have poor audio/video sync. The video trails behind the audio by a few tenths of a second, despite the same files playing back fine on Windows 7 WMP, my Nexus 7 2nd gen, and my Roku.

Videos synced and played back through Plex are fine, and Netflix is fine, too, but I can't seem to find a basic video player app that works correctly.
 

gkarg

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Is that still working for you OK? I tried the stock Xbox video app and mobile.HD media player and both have poor audio/video sync. The video trails behind the audio by a few tenths of a second, despite the same files playing back fine on Windows 7 WMP, my Nexus 7 2nd gen, and my Roku.

Videos synced and played back through Plex are fine, and Netflix is fine, too, but I can't seem to find a basic video player app that works correctly.

Hi

FilesFolders Pro works great for me.

gkarg
 

reggie14

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Hi

FilesFolders Pro works great for me.

gkarg

Hmmm, no luck for me. I get the same audio/video sync problems.

What do you use to encode your videos? I use a slightly modified version of the High Profile preset in Handbrake. All the relevant video stuff is unchanged from the preset, which the exception being that I limit the resolution width to 1280. I'm going to try encoding something using the baseline profile just to see what happens.
 

Jorgkuiper

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Since there is still no VLC, i'm using power media player (power dvd).



Streaming 1080p from My NAS Works fine, besides some stuttering at the first few seconds .



Sent from my Surface with Windows RT using Tapatalk
 

reggie14

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May 29, 2010
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Since there is still no VLC, i'm using power media player (power dvd).



Streaming 1080p from My NAS Works fine, besides some stuttering at the first few seconds .

Thanks!

The key seems to be the encoding settings. I tried re-encoding one movie using the H.264 baseline profile. The resulting file was about 50% bigger, but plays without any issue. I'd hate to have to use such non-optimized settings, though.

Are you playing back full blu-ray rips (e.g., rips using MakeMKV)? Or, if they're re-encoded, do you know what the encoding settings were? Otherwise I guess I'll just have to play around with some different encoding schemes, adding more H.264 high-profile features until the A/V sync breaks.

Update: Anything about baseline profile gives me audio/video sync problems. That's really disappointing, given that the Tegra3 should have no problem with high-profile content.
 
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