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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by dist-epoch on Saturday June 20, 2026 @02:48PM (#48611818)
It stopped being a thing about 10 years ago.

Mostly because everything is H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1, MP3 or AAC.

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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by breve on Saturday June 20, 2026 @10:57PM (#48615250)
And Opus: https://opus-codec.org/
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by wiether on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:32AM (#48616523)
So the weekly updates are... fake?

https://codecguide.com/changelogs_standard.htm

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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by dist-epoch on Sunday June 21, 2026 @04:58AM (#48616989)
jQuery is still being updated.

https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/

And so is COBOL.

https://docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle/visualcobol_rn9_90_pd...

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