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Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know(lemmy.world)

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And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(

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lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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Had to install VLC last week because the Windows player didn’t have the codec to play a video someone sent me from their smartphone. Seems like a pretty common use case to not have figured out…

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ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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They make you pay for some codecs, it might have been that.

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lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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It was and fuck that if they can’t even include the most basic ones

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flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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It’s licensing bullshit. They refuse to pay the codec license mafia (idk how the organization is called)

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