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Windows 11's New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (www.extremetech.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It now uses under 400mb memory.

Licensed codecs aren’t free, which isn’t new.

This isn’t significant.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah did it ever natively play h265? You’ve always had to pay the $2 for it, had an OEM computer that they paid for it, or gotten it from something else. It was the exact same in windows 10.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    You didn't have to pay if the GPU came with a hardware decoder. But the HEVC patent owners have been infighting over royalties. So some hardware isn't shipping with the codec anymore or have it disabled.

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