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

  • @[email protected]English
    87•5 days ago

    Enshitification is what is happening, the original windows video player was way more capable than this modern garbage.

    • @shneancy
      18•5 days ago

      sometimes i forget the “new and improved” version exists, i switched my default to the old media player years ago

    • GreatAlbatrossEnglish
      10•4 days ago

      It’s also partly the patent holders for H.265.

      H.264 had a license fee, but it wasn’t ridiculous. It was jacked up for 265, to the point that a lot of software houses no longer bundle the 265 decoder license.

      It annoys me too: Security cameras often use turnkey H.265 encoding packages rather than more open codecs, which makes dealing with the files using FOSS more of a pita.

    • @Serinus
      6•5 days ago

      I think this part actually isn’t enshittification. I think this is being legally cautious, as you probably should be when you’re Microsoft.