I cant play mp4 on my surface 2?

[taymur]

Ive downloaded a movie today, and weirdly enough windows RT can't play mp4? This isn't believable, or am I missing something? Would like to hear from you guys.

 

[Jazmac]

I use something called Media Player available in the market. Its free. Try that.

 

[anon(8150199)]

mp4 is just the "outside" extension. Videos have separate video and audio codec. I think that video uses a video codec not supported by 8/RT. My recommendation: stick to H264, it works with (almost) any device.

 

[taymur]

mp4 is just the "outside" extension. Videos have separate video and audio codec. I think that video uses a video codec not supported by 8/RT. My recommendation: stick to H264, it works with (almost) any device.

yeah I think so, the video is blueray rip, we don't have to go into the specifics of where I got it from, but anyway, its seems its not an h264 format, is there any converters?

and for gods sake VLC just pop up in the windows store

 

[anon(8150199)]

yeah I think so, the video is blueray rip, we don't have to go into the specifics of where I got it from, but anyway, its seems its not an h264 format, is there any converters?

and for gods sake VLC just pop up in the windows store

on Windows 8, try MediaInfo (it's a desktop app). Free converters do exist (try Freemake) but I don't there's any that can run on RT.

 

[immortalmatt]

You would have thought microsoft would have enabled playback of any file type?