
The app store says it should support FLAC audio playback, but it didn’t work for us MP3 worked just fine, though.

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.
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While you can no longer install or update applications from the Windows 8 Store, you can continue using those already installed. About Windows 8: Update to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8 Beginning in July 2019, the Windows 8 Store is officially closed.

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). You would have to consult the makers of that media player. 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.
