Convert MKV with DTS audio and subtitle to Surface Pro 2 supported video on Windows 8.1 Blue

To get Surface Pro 2 to play MKV movies with DTS Audio & Subtitles, you may have to convert MKV DTS to Surface Pro 2 compatible MP4 format. This article mainly introduces the easy way on Windows 8.1 Blue.

Most of the high quality movies are encoded with MKV files with h.264 video and dts audio, the problem is Surface Pro 2 can't support mkv wit dts audio, which is a multi-channel audio file type used in surrounding sound. Need help playing MKV videos with DTS Audio & subtitles? What app can I use on Windows 8.1 Blue?

As above quesions, you will find you can't view MKV with DTS Audio & Subtitles on Surface Pro 2, as the default and downloaded player on the Windows 8.1 Tablet cannot find a suitable decoder for the DTS Audio. To play a MKV movie with dts surrounding sound on an Surface Pro 2, you will need to convert the MKV file to something that is within the Surface Pro 2’s compatibility to handle, such as mp4 format. Here is how.

Free Download and install the App: Pavtube Surface Pro 2 Video Converter (20% off)
It works well in converting MKV DTS videos to Surface Pro 2 supported video formats. The program is easy to use and produces excellent results. Conversion speed seems fine and the converted videos look decent on Surface Pro 2 as original. Just download it and follow the steps below to realize the way getting MKV movies with DTS Audio & Subtitle to play on Surface Pro 2 smoothly on Windows 8.1 Blue.

• The Mac version is iMedia Converter for Mac.

Step One. Add MKV videos to Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate.

Click the top left icon to add your source mkv videos, or drag-and-drop them directly.

 

Step Two. Choose target video format.

Choose the Surface Pro 2 supported formats in the "Format" dropdown list. You can go to "Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)" from "Windows" option to get Surface Pro 2 compatible format.

 

Step Three. Customize video specs. (Optional)

Click "Settings" to open profiles settings window. Here you are able to customize video size, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate(Hz)…all the specs can be fixed manually. A personal tip: the higher bitrate you choose, the better video quality will be; and you will get videos in larger size.

Tips: DTS to AC3 5.1 Availability - Set advanced video and audio settings.Click on "Settings" button, and the following window will pop up, which enables you to adjust video and audio parameters including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc.

Here you set Audio codec as AC3, and adjust Audio sampling rate and Bit rate to fit your player. By the way, 5.1 sound is available in "Channels". I find that bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.

Step Four. Start Conversion.

Go ahead and click "Convert" button to get MKV with DTS Audio & Subtitle to MP4 conversion on Windows 8.1 Blue started. After a while, you can find the generated file for iTunes quickly via "Open" button.

Now connect your USB drive and transfer them to your Surface Pro 2 for convenient playback. In this way, you can enjoy your favorite MKV with DTS Audio & Subtitle on your Surface Pro 2 wherever you are.

• How to Transfer Music, Video files to Surface 2

More Tips and Solutions:

1. For hard-coding MKV subtitles, just choose desired language from the drop-down box of “Subtitles”.

2. Having trouble with MKV Audios? Refer discussions of converting MKV DTS to AC3 for solutions.

3. Although Surface 2 supports a wide range of video/audio formats, there’s still some format limit. If you wanna play HD videos on Surface Pro 2 like MTS, M2TS, MOD, TOD, TiVo, MPG, VOB, etc smoothly, you should convert these videos to Surface Pro 2 playable format in advance with Surface Pro 2 Video Converter.

Why Surface 2 suddenly stopped playing/supporting Flash video with flv/f4v file type?

Can't get Flash videos to Surafce 2 for playback on the go? Now find the easiest way in this article to convert Flash (FLV/F4V) to Surafce 2 supported videos.

Love them or hate them, Microsoft’s new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets might not be the slimmest on the market, but they’re a whole lot more portable than this 27ft wide and 17ft tall Surface 2 has just touched down in Trafalgar Square in London. We’re happy to report that battery life has been improved with the Surface 2, also it’s packing an even faster processor and higher resolution screen and it is definitely great to enjoy videos on Surafce 2 with 1080p resolution.



However, Surafce 2 does not support Flash yet. This makes users who want to play downloaded FLV/F4V videos on this Windows 8.1 Tablet: "I want to play flash video on Surface 2, can I install adobe flash player from the Windows Store for this Windows 8.1 RT Tablet?"

Adobe Flash is the technology that makes some video files and websites not work with Windows 8.1 devices, it is hard to find an app to see flash-only or flash-heavy videos and websites. And it is not easy to work with flash video faultlessly in this method. But we can put it this way: Surafce 2 natively doesn't support Flash video, but you can convert Flash (FLV/F4V) to iPad friendly formats like MP4 and then add the MP4 videos for playing on Surafce 2. It will be much easier! Here we go!

To accomplish this goal, you are highly suggested to try this Flash Video to Surafce 2 Converter, a professional tool to help you quick convert various video formats to Surafce 2's MP4 format with best video quality and simplest workflow. You can reach the Mac version here: Flash Video to Surafce 2 Converter for Mac.

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Overall, the program is an all-in-one video conversion app right for you. Becides converting flash videos, it can shrink Blu-ray movies to Surface 2, rips DVD to Surface 2 Windows 8.1 optimized formats, and converts other videos to Microsoft Surface 2 Tablet (MKV, AVI, TiVo, MPG, VOB and more), everything can be transferred to your Tablet at ease.

Tutorial: How to transfer flash Video files to Surafce 2 for watching

Step 1. Run this FLV/F4V to Surafce 2 Converter; add flash videos.

You can click "Add Video" icon to load individual videos or the entire folder. Drag-and-drop is also supported.



Step 2. Choose Surafce 2 MP4.

Click the Format drop-down list, choose "Windows> Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)" which works well for Surafce 2. Or you can choose other presets if you don't need full size videos.



Step 3. Customize video specs (Optional).

Your can click "Settings" to free change video size, bitrate, frame rate and others. If you own a 16GB tablet and do not want to keep videos in large size, you can lower the bitrate settings to get video in proper size.

Step 4. Start Conversion.

Now hit the big red "Convert" to start converting flash(flv/f4v) video to MP4 for Surafce 2. After conversion, you can click "Open output folder" to quick locate the converted video.

• Read The Ways Transferring Files to Your Surface

If you have any problem when enjoying videos on Surface tablet, just check out Microsoft Surface Column to learn more.

Can all AVI files playable on Microsoft Surface 2 Windows 8.1 RT Tablet

Want to transfer and play AVI video files on your Microsoft Surface 2? Check out this tutorial to get the easiest and best method.

Microsoft Surface 2 is a new tablet that comes to succeed last year's Surface RT.  With a slightly thinner and lighter design, the Surface 2 sport a much better 10.6" screen, upping the resolution from 1366 x 768 pixels to 1920 x 1080 pixels - a much-needed improvement, which we think is better for browsing the web, playing games and watching videos.

While, Surface 2 only plays videos it supported.  So I googled and I find Surface 2 supports a lot of media formats including:

Surpported Video: 

Formats: MOV, WMV, AVI, M4V, MP4, MTS

Codecs: H.264, H.263, Motion JPEG, MPEG-4(Part 2), VC-1, WMV 3(WMV 9), XviD, DivX

Compstible Audio: 

Formats: MPEG-4, MP3, ASF, ACC LATM, ACC LOAS, ADTS, WAV

Codecs: AAC, Dolby Digital, MP3, WMA, MPEG-1 Layer I, Layer II, MPEG-2, ULAW, PCM, ADPCM


Needless to say, AVI is not included here.  To watch AVI on Surface 2, you’d better convert your AVI to Surface 2 compatible format like MPEG-4/H.264 MP4 format. Now follow this article; you will learn how to accomplish this easily within a few clicks.

The tutorial about how to convert AVI to Surface 2 supported file format

To begin, free download Surface 2 Video Converter or Surface 2 Video Converter for Mac.

The software has a codec pack that enables conversion between different video and audio file formats, it can convert AVI, MOV, AVI, FLV, MPG, etc to Surface 2 supported file format such as mp4 with the best quality.

Tips:

1. You can get both with 20% off at Pavtube Christmas & New Year Huge Promotion.

2. If you have any requirements of outputting 3D (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, Anaglyph) in AVI/MP4/AVI/MOV/WMV formats, you are suggested to try this Video Converter Ultimate (Mac Verison: iMedia Converter for Mac) (Both are also 20% off)

Tutorials: Converting AVI videos to Surface 2 friendly format

Step 1: Load AVI video files to this Video to Surface 2 Converter

Download the Pavtube Video Converter on your computer, install and run the program, add videos.

You can choose to import videos or the entire folder by clicking the top left two icons.

 

Step 2. Choose a proper format for Surface 2.

Click "Format" drop-down list and choose "Windows-> Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)" as the compatible MP4 preset with best video quality. Or you can choose other presets if you don't need full size videos.

 

Step 3. Customize video specs for Surface 2 (Optional).

If you are not satisfied with the default output video specs, click the "Settings" beside "Format" bar to enter Profiles Settings interface. Hit to adjust target video size, bitrate, frame rate and other settings here. Usually the higher bitrate you choose; the larger file size and better video quality it will be.  

Step 4. Edit source video or adjust target video settings (Optional) 

Pavtube Video Converter provides basic editing functions before conversion; you can enter the video editing window by hitting the pencil-like "Edit" icon on the top to free trim, crop, add watermark, edit audio and subtitles. 

 

Step 5. Start AVI Videos to Surface 2 Conversion.

You can hit the big red "Convert" to start converting AVI to MP4 with best video settings for Surface 2. After the conversion, click "Open output folder" in the conversion window, or "Open" in main interface to quick locate the converted video.

Now, you can transfer AVI videos to Surface 2 for smooth playback without any problem.

How to Transfer Music, Video files to Surface 2

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Best Format Settings for Ripping Blu-ray ISO to Surface 2 on Mac Mavericks

This step-by-step guide reveals how to transfer Blu-ray ISO to Surface 2 for playback by converting BD ISO to Surface 2 best video format via the best Mac Surface 2 ISO Converter. 

The Surface 2 takes the original Surface RT idea and upgrades it with a better display, a faster processor and a more versatile kickstand. With 10.6-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 screen, it is wonderful for movie or TV shows enjoyment on Surface 2. If you’re wondering how people are converting their Blu-ray ISO to a video file compatible with the Surface 2 on Mac, read on and you can find a simple way to achieve your goal.




For getting Blu ray ISO movies onto Surface 2 on Mac, here Pavtube BDMagic for Mac necessary which is specialized in ripping Blu-ray ISO, DVD folder, DVD including commercial DVD with protections like BD+, region code on Mac (Mavericks 10.9 included). Go to get it and freely enjoy your favorite Blu-ray ISO movies on Surface 2 with Mac Mavericks. If you are a Windows user, please turn to Pavtube BDMagic.

Rip Blu-ray ISO image files to Surface 2 support video format on Mac Mavericks

Step 1. Run this Top Blu-ray Ripper for Mac, as the Mac Blu-ray ISO to Surface 2 Converter.

Click "Load file" to choose Load IFO/ISO file. It will recognize the ISO image file automatically so that you will not have to run virtual drive to mount the ISO any more.

  

Step 2. Select Surface 2 compatible format.

Click the drop-down list and choose "“Windows > Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)" as the best profile for Surface 2.



Tips: Customize video specs. (Optional)

Click "Settings" to free choose output video size, bitrate, frame rate and other specs. Remember 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. According to my experience, for watching DVD (ISO/IFO) movies on Surface 2, 720p with 1500~2500kbps is just all right.

Step 3. Start the Blu-ray ISO conversion on Mac.

When everything is OK, just press the "Convert" button to start Blu-ray ISO to Surface 2 MP4 conversion on Mac. It will not take much time. Just wait for the conversion process to get done.

After the conversion, you can click "Open output folder" to quick locate the converted video.

• How to transfer converted video to Surface 2?

Additional Tips:

If you are looking for a powerful all-in-one ultimate video converter software to convert various 1080p/720p videos, Blu-ray and DVD movies to your tablet or phone for enjoying, simultaneously saving time and effort, the Top Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate program will be a nice choice for you. If you are running a Mac OS X computer, iMedia Converter Mac is the alternative. (Both are also 20% off now)

More related:

How to convert HD videos to Surface 2?
Ripping DVD movies to watch on Surface 2/Pro 2
Enable Surface 2/Windows 8.1 RT tablet to play Blu-ray movies

Add VOB movies to Surface Pro for smooth playback

The easiest Windows/Mac solution to convert VOB videos to Surface Pro for freely playback with best quality & fast speed . 

Surface Pro comes with a 10.6-inch capacitive touch screen and it runs Windows 8 Pro, , but it also runs all of your legacy Windows applications. When we got the Surface Pro, we may be interested in putting the VOB movies stored on our computer onto the Surface Pro for watching on-the-go, but we all know that the this Windows 8 Tablet won’t play VOB videos. 

 

VOB standards for "Video Object". It is a video format to store video on a DVD disc. Surface Pro only support to playback videos in MPEG-4, H.264, H.263, MEPG-2, VC-1, WMV 9 format. So, if we need to playback VOB videos on the Surface Pro, we should first convert VOB to the Surface Pro supported video formats. Here we go! 

To accomplish this goal, you are highly suggested to try this Video to Surface Pro Converter, a professional tool to help you quick convert various video formats to Surface Pro's MP4 format with best video quality and simplest workflow. 

• FYI: You can reach the Mac version here: Video to Surface Pro Converter for Mac. 

Note: If VOB files are still in your DVD discs, or in VIDEO_TS folder for Mac users, you need Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate and iMedia Converter for Mac for help. It’s a package tool that can help you convert BD, DVD and kinds of common video files. 

Tutorial: How to transfer DVD VOB Video files to Surface Pro for watching 

Step 1. Run this VOB to Surface Pro Converter; add videos. 

You can click the top left two icons to choose import individual videos or the entire folder. Drag-and-drop is also supported. 

   

Step 2. Choose Surface Pro MP4. 

Click the Format drop-down list, choose " Windows>Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)” which works well for Surface Pro. 

   

Step 3. Customize video specs (Optional). 

Your can click "Settings" to free change video size, bitrate, frame rate and others. If you own a 16GB tablet and do not want to keep videos in large size, you can lower the bitrate settings to get video in proper size. 

Step 4. Start Conversion. 

Now hit the big red "Convert" to start converting VOB video to MP4 for Surface Pro. After conversion, you can click "Open output folder" to quick locate the converted video. 

• Read How to transfer media files to Surface Pro? 

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Convert MKV to Surface 2 supported video format 
Rip and Convert DVDs to Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 
Rip Blu-ray to Surface RT for playback with multi-track MP4 
Transfer MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, WMV, MPG, MTS, FLV/F4V videos to Surface 2

iTunes to Surface-Transfer iTunes rental movie to Microsoft Surface RT Tablet

Have some movies purchased from iTunes store and want to play them on your Microsoft Surface RT. Get the iTunes to Surface Converter to transfer DRM iTunes rental movies to Surface RT Tablet.

Surface sports a 10.6-inch screen, it came up with a truly elegant device that has a slightly bigger screen than an iPad (16×9 ratio for you movie geeks out there) and weighs about the same. With a larger and satisfying definition screen, Microsoft Surface RT is also a perfect portable video player for you to enjoy movies.



However, if you wanna to play purchased iTunes m4v videos on your Microsoft Surface RT, you'll get frustrated. If you've got some problems about this, just check out a simple tutorial below, guaranteed you to get iTunes videos and Surface RT Tablet to play nicely.

As we know, M4V videos purchased from iTunes store are protected by Apple's DRM and can only play on Apple products. In addition, M4V is not a video formats supported by Surface RT. Of course, you can't play them on your Microsoft Surface RT tablet without any additional effort. To transfer and watch iTunes movies on Surface RT, you'll need to remove DRM protection from M4V and convert M4V to Surface compatible video formats like MP4.

To get the work done, we'll need to get a DRM removing tool. If you are interested in doing this likewise and looking for ease-to-use, check out Pavtube's ChewTune, a top iTunes Movie DRM Decoder which can easily handle iTunes DRM-protected videos and Windows Media DRM contents included with the Amazon WMV, Blu-ray/DVD Digital Copies. And the playback of the converted videos is as decent as possible as original. Now follow the steps below to convert and put iTunes videos onto Microsoft Surface RT Tablet.

How to Sync and play iTunes rental m4v movies on Microsoft Surface RT Tablet?

Note: For Windows users, just follow the detailed guide to finish your work about converting iTunes movies to Surface RT. For Mac users, you can get the iTunes DRM Converter for Mac to finish your work on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Lion etc.

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Firs Instructions: 

Here are few tips before starting the iTunes m4v movies to Surface RT Conversion: 

1. Make sure that your computer is authorized for source videos, that is to say you can play the source iTunes M4V movies in iTunes. 

2. Allow the audio driver installed during the Pavtube ChewTune installation. 

 

3. Close iTunes before running the Pavtube DRM Removal Converter when converting iTunes M4V movies. 

4. It would take as long as the source movie length for the whole DRM video to Surface RT conversion process since Pavtube ChewTune records source DRM videos in 1:1 video and audio quality. 

The Steps (based on Windows Screenshots): 

Step 1: Add iTunes M4V movies to the software. After installing, Launch ChewTune and import your iTunes files (including the copy-protected music, movies, TV shows) to the program. Batch conversion is supported so that you can add multiple files to convert at a time. 

 

Step 2: Select output format. Click "Format" bar and move mouse to "Windows" column, you can easily find the profile of "Microsoft Surface Windows RT H.264 Video (*.mp4)". The output videos could also fit on Surface RT tablet perfectly.  

If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. 

Step 3: Start the conversion. After above steps, just hit the "Convert" icon to start converting iTunes M4V videos to MP4 videos for Surface RT.

Once the process completes, just copy and transfer the DRM-free MP4 videos to your Surface Tablet via USB cable. Then you are free to enjoy and watch iTunes movies on Microsoft Surface RT Tablet as you like.

Check out 'The Ways Transferring Files to Your Surface' if you have no idea about Surface RT file transfer. 

Useful Tips About enjoying Movies on Micrsoft Surface:

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Rip and Convert DVDs to Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 
Rip Blu-ray to Surface RT for playback with multi-track MP4 
Transfer MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, WMV, MPG, MTS, FLV/F4V videos to Surface 2

Flash Player for Surface RT- Convert flash video to Microsoft Surface RT

With an easy-to-use Surface Video Converter, you can easily convert and play downloaded flash video on Microsoft Surface RT Tablet. 

Surface RT is viewed as the major competitor of iPad 3 in tablet market. As the first tablet produced by the software tycoon, Microsoft Surface RT sports a 10.6-inch touch screen running at "1366x768", quad-core Tegra 3 processor, 32GB built-in memory, Windows RT system, 1.2-megapixel front facer and long-lasting battery.

If you have already downloaded loads of Flash videos from video sharing websites like YouTube or somewhere else, and intend to play those videos on your Surface RT tablet, you may wonder if is it possible to install flash player on Surface RT.

In fact you can find no less than two techniques to aid buyers enjoy Flash video using Surface RT not having Adobe Flash Player involved. One is definitely to set up Adobe Flash Player substitute on Surface and also the other happens to be to transfer Flash file for Surface RT. Hence, the two articles on watching Flash movie on Surface will be shown here.

The First Method: Mount Silverlight on Windows-powered Surface RT

As early as 2007, Microsoft company had decided to focus on an app that is able to function just as the same as Adobe Flash Player titled Silverlight. Created as an Adobe Flash Player alternative, Silverlight allows buyers to enjoy virtually all flash video files on Surface. Moreover, seeing as a Microsoft program, Silverlight may not simply entirely accessible for Surface but additionally pleasantly coordinate with Surface RT. Yet, this option to play Flash movie on Surface RT will not work faultlessly.

In fact, seeing as an immature product, you can find too many faults in Silverlight. Furthermore, the software giant’s option to give up Silverlight in the new web browser has meant that the app will not do better in aiding end users to observe Flash together with Surface than Adobe Flash can. On those grounds, different tactics to get pleasure from Flash file with Surface tend to be wanted.

Method Two: Convert FLV/F4V flash videos to Surface RT friendly MP4 format.

(In other words, that is to change the file extension from flash “.flv” or “.f4v” to “.mp4″ for watching flash on Microsoft Surface Tablets)

Requirements

Before anything else, you have to download an app that you are going to use later. You are required to download and install:

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (available for Windows or for Mac users). Get the Windows version here, and the Mac version here.

Instructions

Support for multithreading and batch conversion, this Microsoft Surface Video Converter works perfectly on converting standard video formats (AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MOV, 3GP, FLV, etc.) and HD video formats ( HD MKV, HD H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HD MPEG-2, etc.) to Microsoft Surface Tablet acceptable video format. 

The audio/video synchronization is very good, the size of the subtitles too. The time it takes to convert in this software is almost half that in other. If you want to play flash on Surface RT, just take the program to help you.

1. Import Flash Videos into the program by clicking “Add video” or “Add from folder” icon to browse and load source flash files stored on your hard disk drive.

2. Click on “Format” menu, and choose “Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)” as target format from “Windows” profile option.

3. In the mean time, you can click “Settings” button to custom video and audio settings for well playback performance on your Surface tablet. Actually, the default settings can generate files that basically satisfy your general watching needs, so this step is optional.

4. Start the conversion.

Once the conversion is done, you can click “Open” button to get generated MP4 files for viewing on Surface.

P.S. If you have no idea about Surface file transfer, you can check out ‘The Ways Transferring Files to Your Surface‘ to learn more. 

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