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Microsoft wants you on Windows 11’s modern Media Player, but it uses 3.5x more RAM and paywalls codecs

Windows Media Player gets new features in Insider builds, but it still to open a video, uses 3x more RAM idle, and can't play ...
Ars Technica

Windows XP codec problems with Media Player

Yep, ran into some problems with MediaPlayer 8 and The Playa on XP. I was trying to watch Enemy at The Gates DivX, which was using a special AC3 sound codec.<P>Found an old copy of Media player 6.4.x ...
Ars Technica

Windows Media Player Codec Woes

*Hoping this is the right forum*<BR><BR>So yesterday I had my laptop at a friends house. He wanted to watch a video but my laptop couldn't play it w/o some codec updates. He had me install K-Lite ...
Digital Trends

I gave the Windows Media Player another shot. Here’s what surprised me

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...