Vista - Windows Media Player 11

My biggest complaint with WMP11 on Vista throughout beta has been its poor
performance...

mpfmp.exe - what's the point of it and why was it necessary?

It is not ready for prime time either or at least wasn't in RC2.

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/3056/mfpmpam5.jpg

Look how much resources it was eating, and it grew by 10MB every time
another song would start.

Hi Travis,

Mfpmp runs when protected media is being played (DRM at work).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
news:OesletuIHHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> My biggest complaint with WMP11 on Vista throughout beta has been its poor
> performance...
>
> mpfmp.exe - what's the point of it and why was it necessary?
>
> It is not ready for prime time either or at least wasn't in RC2.
>
> http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/3056/mfpmpam5.jpg
>
> Look how much resources it was eating, and it grew by 10MB every time
> another song would start.

Travis,

Rick's correct, it's for DRM junk.
Stands for Media Foundation Protected Pipeline EXE
so it's a "supposedly" protected pipe to the DRM servers.

Jeff

"Travis King" <Anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
news:OesletuIHHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> My biggest complaint with WMP11 on Vista throughout beta has been its poor
> performance...
>
> mpfmp.exe - what's the point of it and why was it necessary?
>
> It is not ready for prime time either or at least wasn't in RC2.
>
> http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/3056/mfpmpam5.jpg
>
> Look how much resources it was eating, and it grew by 10MB every time
> another song would start.