Hello guys

Greetings! Yes, I know it was a long break. Trust me, I wanted to post many things, couldn’t as I was too busy (doing my actual job, traveling etc ;) )

Anyway, Windows 10 is never packed with less surprises. Recently I was going through a 4K video clip with multilingual audio tracks & realized that the much celebrated VLC player cannot play it, when the default Movie & TV windows app played the clip without a single break or lag. However, as soon as I tried to switch the default language from “Arabic” to “English” I started getting the error “The device is being used by another application” & the app stopped playing the video (lands on the gallery actually)

I was lucky enough to land on a page with correct solution. https://blog.pcrisk.com/windows/12516-how-to-fix-the-device-is-being-used-by-another-application & “Disable Allow Applications To Take Exclusive Control Of This Device Option” section helped me to finally get over with this major annoyance. Not just that, once done, the app remembers the audio track that you selected & plays the same when you open the same video clip next time! unlike VLC player.

If you landed on this page, looking for a solution, please go through the blog from pcrisk.com & they have multiple solutions to this issue and one of the solutions listed there should help you also.

Hope it helps few out there!

regards,

rajesh