Vista - mfpmp.exe

I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM and 11%
of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is mfpmp.exe eating
for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I mean, really, what
does it do and what good is it? I don't see mfpmp.exe when running WMP11 on
XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know? Thanks.

"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
news:ulWDuS4%23GHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM and
> 11% of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is mfpmp.exe
> eating for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I mean, really,
> what does it do and what good is it? I don't see mfpmp.exe when running
> WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know? Thanks.

mfpmp.exe is a "Media Foundation Protected Pipeline EXE". I guess it's DRM
module protecting media paths from being hijacked by programs that can try
to work around DRM media protection.

--
Alexander Suhovey

simply do not use Windows Media Player but any other program, like Winamp or
the Like and set this alternate program as the default player and your
Problem stops forever.

On my older ThinkPad T23 (16MB DirectX8 Card / Vista-Basic-Mode) the WMP11
even dares to tell me he cannot play DVDs - Every other Player does play
them perfectly smooth!

So forget this messy program - it's all about DRM-****.

On my XP Partition on the Notebook I reverted WMP11 back to WMP10, which
runs well ( and plays DVDs, too. )

Sad, this Thinkpad is full Vista-capable, just no Aero - I can live with
that, but that such simple functions like DVD playback now require a
Aero-compatible card is just silly and one reason for me not to buy the
Update to Vista-Business, but stick with XP Professional on it.

SBJ


"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:ulWDuS4%23GHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM and
> 11% of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is mfpmp.exe
> eating for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I mean, really,
> what does it do and what good is it? I don't see mfpmp.exe when running
> WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know? Thanks.

Sascha Benjamin Jazbec wrote:
> simply do not use Windows Media Player but any other program, like
> Winamp or the Like and set this alternate program as the default player
> and your Problem stops forever.
>
> On my older ThinkPad T23 (16MB DirectX8 Card / Vista-Basic-Mode) the
> WMP11 even dares to tell me he cannot play DVDs - Every other Player
> does play them perfectly smooth!
>
> So forget this messy program - it's all about DRM-****.
>
> On my XP Partition on the Notebook I reverted WMP11 back to WMP10, which
> runs well ( and plays DVDs, too. )
>
> Sad, this Thinkpad is full Vista-capable, just no Aero - I can live with
> that, but that such simple functions like DVD playback now require a
> Aero-compatible card is just silly and one reason for me not to buy the
> Update to Vista-Business, but stick with XP Professional on it.
>
> SBJ

Vista is just MS going through its DRM phase. Hopefully they'll get over
it soon.

Alias
>
>
> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:ulWDuS4%23GHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM
>> and 11% of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is
>> mfpmp.exe eating for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I
>> mean, really, what does it do and what good is it? I don't see
>> mfpmp.exe when running WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know?
>> Thanks.
>

I pray that Vista will be a major sales flop, that SPP shuts down legit
Vistas, that People will see their good Computers behaving slow as hell and
what else it needs to awake the customers.


"Alias~-" <notever@aolhell.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:eVGkOS5%23GHA.3456@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Sascha Benjamin Jazbec wrote:
>> simply do not use Windows Media Player but any other program, like Winamp
>> or the Like and set this alternate program as the default player and your
>> Problem stops forever.
>>
>> On my older ThinkPad T23 (16MB DirectX8 Card / Vista-Basic-Mode) the
>> WMP11 even dares to tell me he cannot play DVDs - Every other Player does
>> play them perfectly smooth!
>>
>> So forget this messy program - it's all about DRM-****.
>>
>> On my XP Partition on the Notebook I reverted WMP11 back to WMP10, which
>> runs well ( and plays DVDs, too. )
>>
>> Sad, this Thinkpad is full Vista-capable, just no Aero - I can live with
>> that, but that such simple functions like DVD playback now require a
>> Aero-compatible card is just silly and one reason for me not to buy the
>> Update to Vista-Business, but stick with XP Professional on it.
>>
>> SBJ
>
> Vista is just MS going through its DRM phase. Hopefully they'll get over
> it soon.
>
> Alias
>>
>>
>> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> news:ulWDuS4%23GHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM and
>>> 11% of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is
>>> mfpmp.exe eating for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I
>>> mean, really, what does it do and what good is it? I don't see
>>> mfpmp.exe when running WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know?
>>> Thanks.
>>

To answer one of your questions, mfpmp.exe uses about 5MB RAM and hovers
between 0 and 2% CPU usage on my machine. Vista RC 2 x64 5744

"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
news:ulWDuS4#GHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM and
> 11% of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is mfpmp.exe
> eating for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I mean, really,
> what does it do and what good is it? I don't see mfpmp.exe when running
> WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know? Thanks.

What CPU are you using? I'm using an AMD Sempron 64 2800+ OC'd @ 1.8GHz
with 1.5GB of RAM on the 32-bit version of Vista build 5744.
"HDFatBoy2003" <nospam@protect.com> wrote in message
news:C8329334-406D-4C35-8AF8-23A6EB766CB9@microsoft.com...
> To answer one of your questions, mfpmp.exe uses about 5MB RAM and hovers
> between 0 and 2% CPU usage on my machine. Vista RC 2 x64 5744
>
> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
> news:ulWDuS4#GHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM and
>> 11% of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is mfpmp.exe
>> eating for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I mean,
>> really, what does it do and what good is it? I don't see mfpmp.exe when
>> running WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know? Thanks.
>

I have dual Xeons 3.2 with 6GB of RAM (Dell Precision 670).

Not sure which account I'm on right now but this is HDFatBoy2003.

"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
news:#X90WM7#GHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> What CPU are you using? I'm using an AMD Sempron 64 2800+ OC'd @ 1.8GHz
> with 1.5GB of RAM on the 32-bit version of Vista build 5744.
> "HDFatBoy2003" <nospam@protect.com> wrote in message
> news:C8329334-406D-4C35-8AF8-23A6EB766CB9@microsoft.com...
>> To answer one of your questions, mfpmp.exe uses about 5MB RAM and hovers
>> between 0 and 2% CPU usage on my machine. Vista RC 2 x64 5744
>>
>> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
>> news:ulWDuS4#GHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM and
>>> 11% of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is
>>> mfpmp.exe eating for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I
>>> mean, really, what does it do and what good is it? I don't see
>>> mfpmp.exe when running WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know?
>>> Thanks.
>>
>

No wonder why it's only eating 2% CPU... lol. You must do a lot with your
computer to have 6GB of RAM.
"HDFatBoy2003" <nospam@protect.com> wrote in message
news:2B81FE49-4655-4D8D-8C98-8CDBF2A5120E@microsoft.com...
>I have dual Xeons 3.2 with 6GB of RAM (Dell Precision 670).
>
> Not sure which account I'm on right now but this is HDFatBoy2003.
>
> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
> news:#X90WM7#GHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> What CPU are you using? I'm using an AMD Sempron 64 2800+ OC'd @ 1.8GHz
>> with 1.5GB of RAM on the 32-bit version of Vista build 5744.
>> "HDFatBoy2003" <nospam@protect.com> wrote in message
>> news:C8329334-406D-4C35-8AF8-23A6EB766CB9@microsoft.com...
>>> To answer one of your questions, mfpmp.exe uses about 5MB RAM and hovers
>>> between 0 and 2% CPU usage on my machine. Vista RC 2 x64 5744
>>>
>>> "Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ulWDuS4#GHA.3312@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> I'm complaining about it (mfpmp.exe) again. It's eating 60MB of RAM
>>>> and 11% of my CPU! That's terrible. How much resources and CPU is
>>>> mfpmp.exe eating for you guys? Why is mfpmp.exe necessary, anyway? I
>>>> mean, really, what does it do and what good is it? I don't see
>>>> mfpmp.exe when running WMP11 on XP, but I do in Vista. Anyone know?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>

Hi had a simular issue.

everything related to windows media player was slow
mfpmp.exe took 35 - 40 MB and a constant of 15 - 20 % CPU.

This Solved my problem:

Removing HD audio driver ( Configuration => Software/Programs)
Reboot
Reinstall original drivers

Problem Solved.

Windows Vista Update gave me a new driver for my audio, so I installed
it. Problem returned! So again remove en reinstall problem solved.
Windows update driver notification for audio removed from list.

Hope this might help.


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