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markp1989

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Registered: 2008-10-05

Posts: 431

recently VLC has been using alot of cpu?

i have noticed in the last few days, that VLC is using more cpu resources then it used to, currently is using about 80% .

is there any way to stop this?

running a nvidia 6200, and currently using the X11 output.

Thanks Markp1989

EDIT: looking in top. its not all used by VLC , but is split 50% Used by X and 25% used by VLC, but it only happens when playing a video with VLC, and the video stutters when scroling in firefox, or opening new programs.

Last edited by markp1989 (2009-01-28 20:04:06)

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,563

Re: recently VLC has been using alot of cpu?

Only major update in a little while that I can think of was NVIDIA, which cas caused some problems. Try rolling back to the 177-series using an old mirror/PKGBUILD.