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by reenorap 38 days ago
From CS101 it’s called virtual memory. Things get swapped in and out of memory when they need to. An extra 200MB of memory when Chrome takes gigabytes of memory is a petty thing to complain about.

How much do you want to bet you don’t even use windows media player? It’s fake outrage and if you care that much use VLC.
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Telaneo 38 days ago
> Things get swapped in and out of memory when they need to.

Great, so now that SSD I've got can wear out more quickly!

> It’s fake outrage and if you care that much use VLC.

Already do. My heart still aches for those who don't know any better.

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roto 38 days ago
Chrome does it, so it must be good? Is a extra 200mb going to cause the computer to choke? probably not, but that doesn't mean people cant complain about the fact that a lot of modern software has gone this route and it all does add up.
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tentacleuno 38 days ago
I really only enjoyed Windows Media Player for its visualizations. I found that VLC could get close, but not quite an exact match (most likely due to licensing); there's something quite entrancing about them, and how they'd move in time and change with the music.

It's come and gone, and I'm still not fully sure what Groove Music was; was it something to do with the Zune?

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sgarland 38 days ago
> VLC

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.

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techteach00 38 days ago
The older I get the more volunteer software projects I donate to. VLC being one of them.
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aleph_minus_one 38 days ago
> 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.

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fhn 38 days ago
then all you need is 64k
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