The huge improvement of Microsoft Surface 2's screen display must be persuasive that Surface 2 would be your best choice to play your collection of HD video file with high quality. The 1920*1080 resolution 10.6-inch retina display on Surface 2 would deliver even better picture than LED TVs. The only problem is that there is a limit on Surface 2 video format.
How to play VOB/MKV/AVI/MPG on Surface 2?
First of all, let's take a look at Surface 2 supported file types:
Obviously, you can’t find Xvid, DivX, MPG, WMV8, 3GP, VOB, MTS, MOV, TiVo, FLV on the format list. The reason you cannot view these videos on Surface 2 is simple: the default and downloaded player on the Windows RT gadget cannot find a suitable decoder for the file. Assuming that you want enjoy VOB/MKV/AVI/MPG files on Surface 2, you’ll need to get some help from 3rd-party software to convert them to H.264 or MPEG-4 encoded MP4 videos for Surface 2.
First you need to download Brorsoft Video Converter (available for Windows or for Mac users), a powerful high-quality video converter, player and editor. If you're facing problems when playing MPG, MPEG, WMV, AVI, MKV, VOB, TiVo, Flash etc. files with Microsoft Surface 2 or other Android, iOS etc. based devices, it would be the best tool for you to solve the issue.
Overall, the program is a dynamic video conversion software which can help you re-encode almost all 1080p/720p HD videos including MPG, MPEG, MKV, AVI, VOB MOV, TiVo, MTS etc. files to Surface 2 highly supported MP4 video files with high output video quality and fast encoding speed.
The Steps:
1. After downloading, install and run the Surface 2 Video Converter on your PC, then click "Add Video" button to load your video source.
2. Choose the output format. Click "Format" bar, you can easily find the optimized videos for Surface RT under Windows > Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4). The output videos could fit on your device perfectly.
Tip: If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. According to my experience, the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa. For watching videos on Surface 2, 720p with 2000~2500kbps is just all right.
3. Click Convert button to start the conversion.
So there you have it. Pretty simple! Once the process completes, download and transfer the result .MP4 files to your Surface 2 Windows RT tablet and then you can watch all VOB/MKV/AVI/MPG movies on Surface 2 tablet with great enjoyment.
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Source:Viewing VOB/MKV/AVI/MPG files on Surface 2 in best quality
