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Hey, i'd like to use a skin, for example WMP11 and i have a laptop.
But i noticed when i use a skin ressources on my computer are higher (with the default skin of vlc 086 i' got about 30 % of used and with wmp11 from joethezombie i got about 50%)
so its a problem for me cause of my autonomy laptop.

Do you know how can i do to diminuce ressources with skin?

thanks

ps : i got a centrino first generation with windows xp sp2 if it could help

I had same problem with severals skins (80% uc used)
But with Askins for exemple, i don't have this problem (but i don't know why)

yeah i dont have this probem either with airflow cause it use for the fullscreen an overlay window (i think its the reason!) and its not encapsuled like WMP11?

One known reason for high CPU consumption is scrolling text. For example, the MediaPlayer skin uses far less CPU when the scrolling text at the bottom is stopped. There is no easy fix for this...
Other reasons for a high CPU usage have to be investigated more deeply.

Note that a skinned video output should also use overlay, so the explanation doesn't seem correct to me.