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| ▲ | Telaneo 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| > 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 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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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| ▲ | sgarland an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > 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 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The older I get the more volunteer software projects I donate to. VLC being one of them. | |
| ▲ | aleph_minus_one an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > 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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