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Not always better dagamer34.
I kind of prefer being able to overwrite some of the default codecs with other codec. Some with special features like codec signed to use the gpu for doing decoding rather than my cpu thus allowing h.264 playback with low cpu usage and so-so gpu usage allowing me to watch a 1080p blu-ray movie on monitor one while grinding some mobs in an mmorpg of my choice on monitor two.
If the codec ms chooses was cpu intensive, it might lag my game when playing high def videos which would bite. Especially if there was a better codec but my os would not allow me to install it.
With that said, this might just be a rumor and the final version could work differently. Or maybe a workaround will exist for overwriting default codecs. People tend to find ways to hack the windows os pretty frequently to add functionality or in this case restore funcationality where was removed.