this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
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If you opened up the ol' Windows Media player back in the 95, 98 or XP days, brace yourself for a mild shock: it was lying to you.

And by lying, well, what I really mean is rendering video somewhere other than inside the actual window that was open on your desktop—sort of a parallel plane of existence to the desktop you were actually looking at—before sneakily porting it over

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago

I remember this! It was a long time ago but I was trying to screenshot something that included a video and after pasting it the video was still playing.