How's the ironing getting along? It's been almost 8 months since the update was to be available "soon". Yes please, I'd love to know this too! At least if we know one way or other that the bugs or limitations of the WinRT environment have proved insurmountable or you guys have just given ...

I don't think it's too soon to nag, so more than 5 months later (and probably a year after the update was promised) what's the status of that "almost ready to release" HTML5/JS/C++ version? If it's entirely their fault then can you let us know what MS needs to do so we can help by bugging ...

We're preparing new update for windows 8.1 with various fixes and improvements. There seem to be posts promising an imminent release of the update for almost half a year now, but looks like it's become a mythical thing like VLC for Metro! I'm guessing there's still no ETA for it? Maybe we'll have i...

Lykos wrote:Disregard some of that, as I was playing around last night I noticed quite a few local files wouldn't allow me to pause/navigate within the video.

You must be using Windows (RT) 8.1 as well. Hope the 8.1 compatible update is released soon!

the App (MM8) can only play what Microsofts supports in Metro playback Microsoft does not restrict the codecs/file formats a Metro app can support. The OS (Videos app) by default supports playback of MP4 but not MKV, but other apps do to varying levels of success. Similarly the Music app can't play...

I can confirm. Latest version of the app installed today on a 1st Gen. Surface RT with Windows RT 8.1 and all updates. Tried browsing to a folder on a USB stick with an MP4 (see MediaInfo report below) and associated SRT. First problem - the MP4 was displayed twice for some reason (perhaps the SRT w...