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<blockquote data-quote="spiderwheels" data-source="post: 593006" data-attributes="member: 99116">MediaPortal Version: 1.1 RC1MediaPortal Skin: Blue wideWindows Version: XP SP3CPU Type: AMD Athlon X2 250HDD: WD 1TBMemory: 4 GB DDR 1066Motherboard: GigabyteVideo Card: ATI HD4200 IGPI'm running some performance tests as I have some issues with TV recordings occasionally stuttering. I wondered if it was a disk issue but after examining it in Performance Monitor I can see my physical disk usage barely moves over 5% even when recording and time shifting simultaneously. Is this pretty normal? I read somewhere that time shifting was quite disk intensive.Anyway, back to the point... with mediaportal open but idle on the basic home screen the CPU usage is running at 27%. If I open the TV plugin it shoots up to 35%. If I then watch a TV program the usage stays about 35%. I believe I have hardware acceleration setup correctly and so playing video should just be a few % not 35%. Why is mediaportal doing so much when idle?Thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spiderwheels, post: 593006, member: 99116"] [b]MediaPortal Version[/b]: 1.1 RC1 [b]MediaPortal Skin[/b]: Blue wide [b]Windows Version[/b]: XP SP3 [b]CPU Type[/b]: AMD Athlon X2 250 [b]HDD[/b]: WD 1TB [b]Memory[/b]: 4 GB DDR 1066 [b]Motherboard[/b]: Gigabyte [b]Video Card[/b]: ATI HD4200 IGP I'm running some performance tests as I have some issues with TV recordings occasionally stuttering. I wondered if it was a disk issue but after examining it in Performance Monitor I can see my physical disk usage barely moves over 5% even when recording and time shifting simultaneously. Is this pretty normal? I read somewhere that time shifting was quite disk intensive. Anyway, back to the point... with mediaportal open but idle on the basic home screen the CPU usage is running at 27%. If I open the TV plugin it shoots up to 35%. If I then watch a TV program the usage stays about 35%. I believe I have hardware acceleration setup correctly and so playing video should just be a few % not 35%. Why is mediaportal doing so much when idle? Thanks [/QUOTE]

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