Windows Media Player update still can’t beat the old version

Windows Insider members have been given access to a new version of Windows Media Player. In taking a closer look at the new ...
ExtremeTech

Windows 11's New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows 11 is drawing criticism now that tests have found it to use far more memory than the ...
Windows Latest

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 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 ...