WMP using 100% CPU

[browney]

Hello all,

A few days ago I started getting a problem were WMP is using 100% CPU I have had this problem once b4 but that was when I had XP

[Rastalovich]

Could be doing a whole number of things m8.

Getting media info is one, manipulating u`r library and it`s stats (particularly if u got a large one), badly written visual effect (especially downloaded ones), or maybe a codec that not standard to windows (from a pack or summit).

I tend to find it starts up, messes around a whole lot, then settles down. During seeking it can repeat this, which could be down to drive access or similar.

[browney]

Just tried winamp and it's doing the same!

[Rastalovich]

U got any wild codecs going on ?

[Toxcity]

Whats your sound card?

[browney]

Havent installed any thing recently.

Sound card is Audigy 2 zs

I've ran spybot and currently scanning 216Gb of files with NOD32

[Toxcity]

Right, run one of your media players and then use this program at the same time.

It may show some more detail into what is actually taking up your CPU.

http://upload.overclock3d.net/get.php?id=3072

[browney]

Process	PID	CPU	Description	Company Name

wmplayer.exe	5888	20.73	Windows Media Player	Microsoft Corporation

procexp.exe	4736	19.87	Sysinternals Process Explorer	Sysinternals

sidebar.exe	3376	16.41	Windows Sidebar	Microsoft Corporation

System Idle Process	0	9.50		

DPCs	n/a	2.66	Deferred Procedure Calls	

dwm.exe	560	7.78	Desktop Window Manager	Microsoft Corporation

System	4	3.46		

firefox.exe	5172	3.46	Firefox	Mozilla Corporation

mfpmp.exe	6032	2.59	Media Foundation Protected Pipeline EXE	Microsoft Corporation

G15NetSpeed.exe	2316	2.59		

Interrupts	n/a	3.99	Hardware Interrupts	

svchost.exe	1036	0.86	Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

services.exe	648	0.86	Services and Controller app	Microsoft Corporation

csrss.exe	572	0.86	Client Server Runtime Process	Microsoft Corporation

WmiPrvSE.exe	6088		WMI Provider Host	Microsoft Corporation

WinMail.exe	1228		Windows Mail	Microsoft Corporation

winlogon.exe	620		Windows Logon Application	Microsoft Corporation

wininit.exe	564		Windows Start-Up Application	Microsoft Corporation

usnsvc.exe	2556		Messenger Sharing USN Journal Reader Service	Microsoft Corporation

taskeng.exe	812		Task Scheduler Engine	Microsoft Corporation

taskeng.exe	3016		Task Scheduler Engine	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	1020		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	1180		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	1340		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	820		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	868		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	1588		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	916		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	988		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	2212		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	2644		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	2704		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe	2752		Host Process for Windows Services	Microsoft Corporation

StarWindService.exe	2684		StarWind iSCSI Target (Alcohol Edition)	Rocket Division Software

spoolsv.exe	1560		Spooler SubSystem App	Microsoft Corporation

smss.exe	444		Windows Session Manager	Microsoft Corporation

SLsvc.exe	1148		Microsoft Software Licensing Service	Microsoft Corporation

sidebar.exe	5176		Windows Sidebar	Microsoft Corporation

SetPoint.exe	808		Logitech SetPoint Event Manager (UNICODE)	Logitech Inc.

SearchProtocolHost.exe	6084		Microsoft Windows Search Protocol Host	Microsoft Corporation

SearchIndexer.exe	2812		Microsoft Windows Search Indexer	Microsoft Corporation

SearchFilterHost.exe	492		Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host	Microsoft Corporation

nod32kui.exe	1600		NOD32 Control Center GUI	Eset 

nod32krn.exe	2612		NOD32 Kernel Service	Eset 

msnmsgr.exe	152		Windows Live Messenger	Microsoft Corporation

MOM.exe	2164		Catalyst Control Center: Monitoring program	ATI Technologies Inc.

MDM.EXE	2400		Machine Debug Manager	Microsoft Corporation

lsm.exe	668		Local Session Manager Service	Microsoft Corporation

lsass.exe	660		Local Security Authority Process	Microsoft Corporation

LCDMon.exe	804		Logitech LCD Manager	Logitech Inc.

KHALMNPR.exe	3084		Logitech KHAL Main Process	Logitech Inc.

ioloDMVSvc.exe	2280			

explorer.exe	864		Windows Explorer	Microsoft Corporation

ehtray.exe	488		Media Center Tray Applet	Microsoft Corporation

ehmsas.exe	2376		Media Center Media Status Aggregator Service	Microsoft Corporation

CTHELPER.EXE	1828		CtHelper Application	Creative Technology Ltd

csrss.exe	512		Client Server Runtime Process	Microsoft Corporation

CCC.exe	3224		Catalyst Control Centre: Host application	ATI Technologies Inc.

audiodg.exe	1116		Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation 	Microsoft Corporation

Ati2evxx.exe	968		ATI External Event Utility EXE Module	ATI Technologies Inc.

Ati2evxx.exe	1972		ATI External Event Utility EXE Module	ATI Technologies Inc.

[Rastalovich]

This is the line that stands out for me:

mfpmp.exe 6032 2.59 Media Foundation Protected Pipeline EXE Microsoft Corporation

I can also confirm that even for videos of much lower resolution, “Media Foundation Protected Pipeline EXE” gets starten when I open them and uses 100% CPU at the beginning and around 10-20% CPU during playback. In addition, it takes almost 45 seconds before Media Player actually starts playing the video after opening it.

Video and audio playback seems to use much more resources in Vista, and you even get freezes and gaps in the audio.

On that very same PC, in XP, everything worked much faster.

Source

One of the sources that came up when I queried what the heck it was. They keep reverting back to the same factors as u`r outlining in u`r op.

I`m not remembering what the footprint of mp is under XP. But if u feel this may have something to do with the large cpu charge u keep getting, u should have the same experience as this poster.

EDIT: Well there we are, on meh work pc running something that looks like XPSP2, MediaPlayer is fluctuating between 0 and 1 %.