Is vlc still popular and widely used or is there a new 'kid' in town?
mpv is really good but a little light on the GUI; I recommend VLC for most people
mpv is super for lower spec hardware!
Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
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Re: Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does not matter how well or poorly Chrome mismanages memory, 400MB is still 400MB. If that 400MB is 10% of the free RAM after the share the OS takes, then that is a hefty toll. And the regular updates Windows 11 users are getting are famously not providing value, but taking value away. Case in point right here is the new media player.
People try to use Windows 11 with 4GB of RAM? I doubt that's viable, honestly... At that point, just don't use microslop software
I said 10% of the free RAM. 4GB should be enough, but I'm talking about the 4GB you might get left over from 8GB.
I thought I might have been undergenerous, but I just looked it up, and people report Windows 11 really does idle around 4GB RAM on a fresh install. Geeze :(
Re: Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP was clearly a joke about Copilot making bad code
it's a reasonable-sounding inference (if your only context is that there's a "new" Media Player and it's taking more memory) that doesn't apply in this particular case. A joke can be "funny because it's true"
This is just a pointer on how not to sound like Sheldon from TBBT or like Claude Opus 4.8 with thinking set to Max in casual conversation.
Not saying it's better though.