2012-01-27, 03:35 PM
Well I hope I can explain whats happening. First off I've been experimenting with various free pvr programs for years looking for an easy to use program. I have two computers, one is in my entertainment center and the other in my office where I experiment with programs to eventually put into use if I like them. I have a program called "watchhdtv" in use on my entertainment center which is a simple pvr. Cpu usage is under 20% on all OTA channels. I moved npvr onto this computer, leaving watchhdtv installed. When using npvr all ota channels are using less than 20% cpu usage. As I like to keep things simple I removed watchhdtv from the entertainment center computer, the cpu usage went up to 80%. It appears some setting in the watchhdtv program is affecting other programs. I put watchhdtv back on and the cpu usage went down to 20%. I have no idea why this is happening.