Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f...
by aleph_minus_one on Saturday June 20, 2026 @03:36PM
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> VLC on my Mac uses about 130 MB of RAM (as reported by Activity Monitor) to play a FLAC file, and about 300 MB to play a high-bitrate 1080p MP4 file. The audio file memory consumption frankly seems high, but it’s fine, and apparently 1/3 that of WMP.
Not without reason VLC is considered to be a memory hog.
Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f...
by techteach00 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:29PM
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The older I get the more volunteer software projects I donate to. VLC being one of them.
VLC on my Mac uses about 130 MB of RAM (as reported by Activity Monitor) to play a FLAC file, and about 300 MB to play a high-bitrate 1080p MP4 file. The audio file memory consumption frankly seems high, but it’s fine, and apparently 1/3 that of WMP.
More directly, do you not find it odd and embarrassing for a tech giant to be unable to beat a bunch of volunteers? I mean, ffmpeg famously hand-writes a lot of assembly, but it turns out Microsoft could absolutely do that as well if they really wanted to. They could produce performant, native apps; they just choose not to.