Just use VLC.
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From the post:
>Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows 11 is drawing criticism now that tests have found it to use far more memory than the classic Windows Media Player. Moreover, the new player hides some popular codecs behind paywalls.
The modern Media Player is said to use around 377MB of RAM when idle, compared to roughly 103MB for the old player—about 3.5x as much memory while doing absolutely nothing. The program takes longer to open local video files, with startup time increasing roughly 50% from about two seconds on the legacy player to three seconds on the new one, per Windows Latest's tests.
Just use VLC.
Archive: https://archive.today/v1bxJ
From the post:
>>Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows 11 is drawing criticism now that tests have found it to use far more memory than the classic Windows Media Player. Moreover, the new player hides some popular codecs behind paywalls.
The modern Media Player is said to use around 377MB of RAM when idle, compared to roughly 103MB for the old player—about 3.5x as much memory while doing absolutely nothing. The program takes longer to open local video files, with startup time increasing roughly 50% from about two seconds on the legacy player to three seconds on the new one, per Windows Latest's tests.
