Playing music - options

[ctitanic]

Well... this is one of the first big issues that I have faced with the Surface 2. I want to play a certain video track which is a MP4 track. I find that I can't play it. I can't chooses it. I can choose folders (which I don't want to), but I can't choose a specific track in a specific folder. I tried this with Xbox Music (which sucks!), Media Monkey, and Multi Media 8. The only one that seems to work is Multi Media 8, but I always get an error saying that I need to install some stuff - details here: Download Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 8 from Official Microsoft Download Center

Edit: BTw, the media track is saved on SkyDrive, which really should not matter.

Here is a detailed explanation

play mp4 on windows rt » AMVSoft Blog

 

[D1vad]

Coming from OS X and iOS this is painful. I use iTunes and I'm slightly mad I cannot sync it with the metro music app.

I'm coming from an iPad, and iTunes. My iTunes music is in the normal iTunes media location. i have no issue in getting the Metro music app to play my iTunes media music..
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by sync, in this connotation.

 

[kristalsoldier]

Ok, the trick is to open file explorer, locate the file, do a right click and pick the application to Open With. Mp4 like mkv are like video containers. Within those you have tracks codified by what is called Codecs. So what's happening to your mp4 is that probably the video codec used is not installed in your Surface 2. That's the case with MKV files. They are not supported by MS by default. At this moment the only thing you can do is to use Apps that contain their own Codecs configured and "installed", like PowerDVD, Multimedia8, etc. The link posted by you points to the x86 version of the extra Codecs package needed by Windows to deal with some formats like DivX and Xvid. My guess is that your mp4 was created using one of these two. :wink:

All this counting with your mp4 file not being copy protected.

Thanks. It worked by going through the File Explorer. Just goes to show how I have grown to expect files to open if I just click on them at their source rather than finding an alternate route to the file source.

Nothing wrong with my MKV and/ or MP4 files and related codes. I used Multimedia 8 to play the files in question, which it now did without a hassle. And, the files were short films that I had made on my own so no question of copy protection.

 

[kristalsoldier]

BTW, did you try powerdvd or xyplayer rt.

No, but I'll try them out. Thanks for the references. I do hate Xbox though!!!!

 

[D1vad]

have you seen this on codexs [video=youtube_share;9vLhNmjF8Xg]http://youtu.be/9vLhNmjF8Xg[/video]

you might check your default settings for file types M4V
bring up the charm then settings | Change PC Settings | Search and Apps | Defaults | scroll down and tap on | Choose default apps by file type. | what ever you have listed here is what windows will use to attempt to open the file type. you'll really need to scroll to get down to .M4V

 

[beman39]

^^ but that doesn't work on the Surface 2, only for all win 8 legacy devices/machines...

 

[ctitanic]

^^ but that doesn't work on the Surface 2, only for all win 8 legacy devices/machines...

Exactly, people keep confusing Windows RT with Windows 8 :nerd: