DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400% CPU

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DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400% CPU

PostSat Mar 14, 2020 8:15 pm

I have installed an Intensity Pro 4K capture card in my linux machine.
So far all seems to work well, i can capture HDMI frames in my own
applications.
I noticed something unusual though: it can happen that
DesktopVideoUpdater consumes 200% CPU and DesktopVideoHelper
consumes 200% CPU.
They seem to be busy spinning in a loop? Interestingly, when i launch
Media Express, CPU consumption goes down to 100% each, and stays
that way.
After i kill these two processes, i can still use the decklink API.

Please look into this! Who wants two utilities taking up so much CPU?
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Re: DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400%

PostMon Mar 16, 2020 11:03 am

de-install > re-install ?
Intensity Shuttle, ATEM Mini, Video Assist 5"(mini USB), Hyperdeck ShuttleHD,Analog to SDI mini-converter, software: Davinci Resolve 15 on Sierra, Resolve 18 on Catalina. (Using Apple OS 32 & 64 bit on different MacBook Pro's
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Re: DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400%

PostTue Apr 21, 2020 9:03 pm

Hello,

I have the same issue here on Linux Manjaro 19.04. Both DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper suddenly start randomly and eat all my CPU (around 400% too). Even when I kill them my capture card (a quad HDMI) is still working so there is no reason those two processes should start and eat that much CPU.

Otherwise the capture card is working wonderfully.
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Re: DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400%

PostFri Jul 10, 2020 1:39 pm

Hello,

Same here, It appends when resuming from sleep/hibernation.
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Re: DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400%

PostFri Jul 10, 2020 4:30 pm

vixns1 wrote:Same here, It appends when resuming from sleep/hibernation.


Yes i second that. It is reproducible on my machine.
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Re: DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400%

PostSat Jul 11, 2020 6:02 am

Does the same on Debian.
Debian 10 / 11
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Re: DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400%

PostTue Aug 18, 2020 7:44 pm

Exactly same behaviour here: full CPU usage after suspend to RAM.

Setup: Linux Mint 19 Tara 64-bit (equivalent to Ubuntu Bionic), kernel 4.15.0-109-generic x86_64, DeckLink Duo 2 running firmware version 11.5.1.
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Re: DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400%

PostWed Nov 18, 2020 1:31 am

Same here, consuming 100-200% of 12 processors while DR is not running!!!

Has anyone found a way to stop this? Seems like an excessive amount of updating on a system that isn't running.
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Re: DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper consume 400%

PostMon Nov 23, 2020 7:06 pm

Same here on Arch. DesktopVideoUpdater and DesktopVideoHelper absolutely hogging all cores of my CPU.

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