I'm not sure if iTunes is streaming the video to itself or not, there's not a whole lot of different settings you can change.
and nope, I'm on a single monitor laptop so the dual monitor tip's not applicable. Thanks anyways. I'll just keep playing them in QT for now. On 7/10/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:31 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: iTunes anomaly > > > > I've started watching video podcasts through iTunes since, sadly, all > > I have is a 4th gen iPod. Interestingly enough, video through iTunes > > shoots the cpu to 100% and the framerate sucks. But if I open the > > same file in quicktime, my cpu stays under 20% and I have a good > > framerate. Very confusing since I thought that iTunes uses quicktime > > to playback everything. > > Well... despite the obvious (iTunes sucks!) do you know if, perhaps, when > the CPU spikes you're actually streaming the video instead of just playing > it? That might account for a difference. > > Probably doesn't apply, but do you have dual monitors by any chance? In > some cases a program that's (even a little bit) crossing across the dual > monitors can send the CPU sky high when playing video... although in my > experience this has only been for video overlay (as from a TV card) and only > with very dated dual monitor cards (where only one of the outputs actually > supported overlay). > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:238094 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
