14 DAY TRIAL // cPlayerRT is one of the apps that promise to help you play multimedia files in Windows 8.1 Metro with minimum effort, while also offering support for UPNP servers, network, and the local video library.
In essence a port of the UPNP media player for Windows Phone, the application offers support for both Windows 8 and Windows RT, so you can install it on Surface RT tablets as well.
“Unlike the built-in Windows 8 video player, it supports SRT subtitles, pinning items to the home screen, locking screen orientation, and playing the next media in the current folder automatically. This is a port of cPlayer, the UPNP media player for Windows Phone,” the app description reads.
Overall, this is quite a helpful application for all those who want to watch video in the Modern UI of Windows 8.1, so download cPlayerRT right now to see what it’s up to.