Windows Media Player CPU Usage

[Craig321]

Hi,

Is the Windows Media Player 10 CPU usage meant to be 50%? That's ridiculous for a music player.

I could use Foobar or Winamp, but I want to use WMP10 as it has support for the media functions on my keyboard without having to install any drivers.

Any ideas, if it's not meant to take so much, how to stop it?

THanks
Craig.

 

[Craig321]

Would have thought a music player would only take something like 5%. (2% or < w/o pretty patterns)

I have an Intel 530 3.0GHZ 1MB L2

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[Craig321]

Hmm, I'll give it a go thanks.

winamp works fine with my 7 year old keybaord without drivers...

--Edit--

Doesn't work for me

 

[Craig321]

MAke sure you have the pretty patterns turned off - if you are looking at the media libary etc it will still use the same amount of cpu as if you was watching the patterns

Hmm, okay, hopefully turning the patterns off will help.

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[Craig321]

Ahh, much better, have turned off the patterns & CPU usage is <2% now

Thanks for the help,
Craig.

 

[Craig321]

I think that's a plugin you have to manually install, doesn't come with Winamp.
I did have it before, but forgot what it was.

Media Player's fine now though

Thanks,
Craig.