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I just upgraded to 0.9.9 on my XP Pro SP2 laptop. When I show the playlist and add the Podcasts sources (even if empty and right after resetting all settings), the CPU on my machine goes to 100%.

I can drop the process priority down to 6 (below normal), and everything else will run fine, and I can still listen to my podcasts. But at the "normal" 8, most everything else on my system chugs along like molasses in January*...

Any idea what's up?


* In the northern hemisphere.

You are running 64 bit XP?

I had the same problem on Vista SP1 with 0.9.9. but the problem is not present in 1.0.0.pre2 which I use right now

You are running 64 bit XP?

64 bit? No, sorry if I gave that impression somehow.
Still seeing the exact same behavior after a complete uninstall/purge and reinstall.

Because there have been multiple posts that when VLC is run in 64 bit Windows XP, the podcast.dll might take all CPU time. But we haven't been able to replicate the behavior so we really can't fix this issue.