Zotac ND-22 + WMC7 + Netflix = high cpu
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Some time ago I remember playing netflix on this combo without any problem. Watching some stuff recently and its really laggy. Checked processes and found ehexthost.exe is really high which is causing 100% cpu usage. The only thing google's helped with is saying there was a problem with IE9 RC that was fixed already. Am I missing a setting?

HTPC: Zotac ND22
OS: Windows 7 Home Edition
NAS: Synology DS411
XBMC: 10.1 Dharma
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#2
What cpu usage do you see if you try running netflix from a browser window instead of Media Center?

As far as I know Netflix doesn't properly implement hardware decoding, so the decoding is all done on the CPU.
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#3
You might have answered my question then. I get high usage around 50-70% with IE9 but once HD streaming starts, it goes up to near 100% and the video actually falls behind the audio. I tried upgrading Silverlight to version 5 and there is an option for hardware acceleration but it doesn't seem to work.

HTPC: Zotac ND22
OS: Windows 7 Home Edition
NAS: Synology DS411
XBMC: 10.1 Dharma
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#4
Try playing a HD video on youtube, and look at your CPU usage. Youtube properly implements the hardware decoding.
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#5
Already did that. Same with HD videos. They all play fine. It is just Netflix that I'm having problems with. I found out that you can limit the bandwidth from Netflix so it won't do HD streams so I'll just go with that for now.

HTPC: Zotac ND22
OS: Windows 7 Home Edition
NAS: Synology DS411
XBMC: 10.1 Dharma
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