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DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I was surprised I was able to uninstall Media Player on Windows 11. I played a video file on my laptop and accidentally selected “always open with”. Lo and behold Windows Media Player doesn’t play HEVC encoded files (not sure if it was 264 or 265). I thought I would have to tinker with the default program settings but tried “add or remove programs” on a lark and it worked. I then opened the file with VLC as one normally does and life is back in balance.
Inktvip@lemm.ee 8 months ago
HEVC actually requires a $1 license you can get from the ms store. It’s a royalty thing. OEMs often ship PCs with that license already enabled.
There are more applications than just windows Media Player that won’t play hevc files/streams without that license installed.
VLC doesn’t really seem to care about those things though and it’s better than the default anyways.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Yeah, I should have specified that it could have played it if I paid but I couldn’t remember the amount and I’d rather use VLC.