Question about Quicktime

[Azndude51]

How come quicktime uses so much CPU power when it's minimized? or is this something unique to my computer? When I have that the task manager up (with the CPU graph in the taskbar) while I watch quicktime videos, the CPU usage is at about 15%, when I mimize Quicktime, it jumps up to 100% and I hear the sound become jumpy. This happens with various .mov files, why is this?

 

[Gurck]

It's sloppy bloatware. Some would say malware as well, though I'm not in the mood to start that debate, nor is it within the scope of this thread 😉 For .mov & .qt files use Quicktime Alternative.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Gurck
It's sloppy bloatware. Some would say malware as well, though I'm not in the mood to start that debate, nor is it within the scope of this thread 😉 For .mov & .qt files use Quicktime Alternative.

It's much better behaved in Mac OS X. 😉

 

[Azndude51]

Originally posted by: Gurck
It's sloppy bloatware. Some would say malware as well, though I'm not in the mood to start that debate, nor is it within the scope of this thread 😉 For .mov & .qt files use Quicktime Alternative.

I heard about that before, I might try that. I really hate Quicktime and how I can't watch movies full screen and how I have to continue purge it from my startup.

 

[Ecgtheow]

I'll just tell you that the Mac version of Windows Media Player is much, much worse.

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: Gurck
It's sloppy bloatware. Some would say malware as well, though I'm not in the mood to start that debate, nor is it within the scope of this thread 😉 For .mov & .qt files use Quicktime Alternative.

 

[Azndude51]

I still don't understand why it would use 5-6 times more CPU usage when it's minimized.

 

[Azndude51]

Can I uninstall Quicktime without screwing up itunes?