![]() VLC hasn’t made a full list of supported file formats/codecs available, but it played all of the normal video files we threw at it (MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, etc.) It also worked with a range of subtitle files, including CC, SUB, and VSUB. There’s no ARM support yet, but the original Kickstarter said there would be a “subsequent release” that adds it. ![]() ![]() Being a beta release, there are some bugs, and it’s not 100% stable, but it’s still very usable. The Kickstarter went on to successfully raise around $80,000 - and now, just over a year later, VLC for Windows 8 has been released to the Metro app store. Way back in November 2012, VideoLAN (the group behind VLC) launched a Kickstarter project to fund the creation of Metro version of VLC. Unfortunately for Surface 2 owners, VLC for Windows 8 doesn’t yet support the ARM architecture - but the developers say that ARM support is coming eventually. Perhaps most importantly, VLC for Windows 8 includes the same flawless support for captioning and subtitles. VLC for Windows 8 includes support for the MKV container format, the H.264 codec (along with its various containers/file formats), and almost every other codec under the sun (just like VLC on the Desktop). ![]() At long last, the Windows 8 Metro environment has a decent media player that can play MKV files: VLC for Windows 8! VLC Media Player Beta for Windows 8 is a complete reimagining of VLC for Microsoft’s touch-oriented Metro interface, but still with most of the functionality that makes the Desktop version of VLC so awesome.
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