Windows 10 update removes Windows Media Player

wabbit16 said:
Why did you lose your blue tooth? And why should Bill Gates bring it back to you? You must stop leaving stuff laying about, man :D
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:D Microsoft likes to do updates regularly on Win 10 as we all know, so between then and now, my bluetooth was removed and I never got it back from any updates, although I don't really use my blue teeth anyway , I keep them in my mouth - it's safer there :D
 
mercurial said:
I've never been able to play mkv files among others on WMP, even on Windows 10. VLC FTW.
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You can look for something like K-lite codec pack (not sure if it's still called that, it's years since I used windows). Then WMP should be able to play more or less everything.

Some others prefer Media Player Classic over VLC or WMP.
 
silkenphoenixx said:
You can look for something like K-lite codec pack (not sure if it's still called that, it's years since I used windows). Then WMP should be able to play more or less everything.

Some others prefer Media Player Classic over VLC or WMP.
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I used to use that all the years back :)
 
Nothing and I mean nothing touches WMP on the library side. WMP till I die.
 
eg2505 said:
plex is nice, but expensive, not as good as VLC streaming to a device,
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There's a free version...

supersunbird said:
Why they removing it?

And no, VLC isn't better, WMP has a nice big stop and start button right in the centre at the bottom, just the perfect spot.
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Just hit spacebar...
 
Rickster said:
Its plays FLAC and MKV natively and the colour accuracy is much better in WMP, VLC looks washed out for some reason.
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My tests confirm this on Skylake Win10 PC. WMP is giving the best colour rendering for modern H.264/H.265 formats and VLC is the worst. In the middle are Kodi and a player embedded in K-Lite Codec Pack. WMP also handles the best 10-bit HEVC (which requires hybrid decoding - not supported in CPU hardware), when CPU is struggling at 40-60%.

BTW, Windows movie app (whatever is called) is using the same libraries as WMP, results are exactly the same.
 
sajunky said:
My tests confirm this on Skylake Win10 PC. WMP is giving the best colour rendering for modern H.264/H.265 formats and VLC is the worst. In the middle are Kodi and a player embedded in K-Lite Codec Pack. WMP also handles the best 10-bit HEVC (which requires hybrid decoding - not supported in CPU hardware), when CPU is struggling at 40-60%.

BTW, Windows movie app (whatever is called) is using the same libraries as WMP, results are exactly the same.
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Movies and tv?
 
This is balls, I still use WMP to play MP3 and flac files. Now what, use the new music Windows 10 app? *Pukes*
 
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