WMP using 1/2 of processor during rendering?

StormCrow wrote on 5/17/2005, 5:55 AM

I'm rendering out and preparing a DVD in DVDA2 and it seemed to be taking longer than normal. I looked at the task manager and noticed that half of the processor is being taken up by WMP. Is this normal? I have no other applications running at all.

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mcgeedo wrote on 5/17/2005, 5:38 PM

I have a dual-processor HP machine (that I absolutely love... 3 GHz, 1 GB RAM, etc...). When I render and I'm just running a single process, it shows 50 percent CPU utilization, because it's just using one CPU; the other is idle.

Open the task manager program. When I do this, I have two separate windows for CPU utilization. One shows max, the other shows idle.

Do you have a dual CPU machine?

StormCrow wrote on 5/17/2005, 7:43 PM

No I don't have a dual processor machine. I'm running a P4 3.0GHz @ 3.6GHz and it is very, very stable and well cooled. It has never crashed due to overclocking. The only time it crashes due to overclocking is when I tried twice to go to 20% overclock. What puzzles me is when DVDA2.0 is rendering the file, why when I check the Task Manager is WMP taking up 50% of the processor and then DVDA has the other 49-50%?

Chienworks wrote on 5/17/2005, 8:52 PM

WMP? Is that Windows Media Player? Can you shut down the process? If not, try setting it's priority to "below normal". This will give DVDA priority and it should then take most of the processor cycles.

StormCrow wrote on 5/18/2005, 4:48 AM

Yes it is Windows Media Player. I was not watching any preview or listening to any music. The only thing that I had running was DVDA2.0. It seemed to be taking longer than normal to render / prepare and burn and so that is when I checked to see if something else was running in the background and found that WMP was eating up half of the processor! I was not sure if this was normal and I just never noticed it or not and so I did not attempt to shut it down but next time I will.