Windows Media Player 11 Help - 50% CPU Usage

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Peppercorns

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Hey Guys,

My PC has been running perfectly fine for the past while now until about 4 days ago. Whenever I run Windows Media Player 11 and play either music or video, after about 10 seconds of the program running normally, it's CPU usage shoots up to 50% :(

As a result, my entire system starts running very slowly and whatever media is playing begins to jitter and lag.

My current CPU is a Core 2 Duo E6600 and I have 2 gigs RAM.

I've tried scanning for Viruses, Trojans and Spyware, but I've found no problems. I even went as far as reformatting my Windows Hard Drive and starting with a fresh install of windows, but after I installed Media Player, the same problem started happening again. :(

I have absolutely no idea what to do or try next. :confused:

If anyone has any ideas/suggestions please help

Thanks in Advance ;)
Peppercorns
 
I noticed the same thing, that and svchost.exe(virus stuffs also like this) thingy.. I have no idea why tho, i think it its maybe the monitor folder thing?? I noticed that initially that sucks up cpu like mad.. usually it happens when you start it up, if you leave it running for a while it stops. Also if you have the connect to the internet option set as well as the retrieve album/music info it will also do it.
 
I've left media player running for about and hour or more, but the CPU usage still remains at 50% and Memory usage is up at about 120,000K.

I tried turning off the "connect to the internet to retrieve album/music info" with no luck :(
 
That's because its indexing.

I bet you if you take all your mp3's and place them in some odd folder the problem will go away!

01. Get into OPTIONS, click the LIBRARY tab, click MONITOR FOLDERS button.
02. You'll see a stack of folders its monitoring. Tell each folder to ignore however on Vista the \\MUSIC folder can't be ignored, i guess in XP the My Music folder is the same.

When you're done, click ok and if you left the folder open for your media, let it search etc. afterwards your problem should be resolved!.

Good luck!
 
Managed to fix it :)

It was indeed an indexing problem, Media Player was adding music to the library, but was stuck on a corrupt file, so it couldn't finish the indexing.

I moved my music to a different folder and deleted the corrupt file, now everything seems to be sorted.

Thanks LabAnimal ;)
 
have you tried winamp yet? it's better than mediaplayer imho, and as for video files of any type try the free VLC media player.

;-)
 
i just like if because it makes playing music cool with album art and sorting it all..

but really it sucks up resources sometimes :( sometimes i use winamp when i have sorted out what i want to listen to in a playlist.. but i hate that it can't track plays from wmp
 
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