I skipped VLC and found an open-source player that chews through 4K

VLC and the stock Windows players were built for a different era, and they show that the moment you throw something genuinely heavy at them. Instead, there are plenty of alternatives that don't get enough attention. The most popular choices only sound good in theory, but you may like MPV more than VLC because it works better than you'd think.

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