Windows Media Player CPU Usage

Craig321 · 23 Apr 2006 at 19:49

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.

CurlyWhirly · 23 Apr 2006 at 21:51

It all depends what CPU you have but on my PC with an AMD Athlon XP3000+ the CPU usage rarely goes over 20%.

Craig321 · 23 Apr 2006 at 22:39

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.

chex · 23 Apr 2006 at 23:26

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

Craig321 · 24 Apr 2006 at 02:30

Hmm, I'll give it a go thanks.

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

--Edit--

Doesn't work for me

Greeny132 · 24 Apr 2006 at 07:06

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

chex · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:24

sorry I couldnt help

Craig321 · 24 Apr 2006 at 17:27

Greeny132 said:
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.

Psyk · 24 Apr 2006 at 17:41

I've had similar problems. It doesn't seem to have a huge amount of CPU usage but when I'm doing something else processor intensive it plays fine but takes ages to skip to the next song (when it's on shuffle anyway, haven't tested it playing through in order).

Craig321 · 24 Apr 2006 at 20:05

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

Thanks for the help,
Craig.

CurlyWhirly · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:52

Craig321 said:
Ahh, much better, have turned off the patterns & CPU usage is <2% now

I like watching the patterns which is why I leave mine on!

lightning512 · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:02

Hi

If anyone else has problem with media keys in winamp is most likely the keys have been turned off in the preferences, Look for a plugin called universal shortcuts or something like that in the misc plugin sector. and enable it. Then you can configure all controls e.g. play, stop to any key you want even the media keys on the keyboard(works on my logictech media keyboard).

Craig321 · 27 Apr 2006 at 01:48

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.