VTDecoderXPCService sucking up 25-30% of CPU

DITTO! Found that to be the case for me too. I didn't even know FT was open. Closed it, gone.

If you ForcEx the process, osX just revives it.

I experienced intermittent choppiness in QuickTime playback because of VTDecoderXPCService sucking up to 120% (multi-thread) CPU time.

As far as I understand, the service is not required for video playback in QuickTime, as oftentimes the videos would play fine while VTDecoderXPCService was not running.

I was able to fix the issue by moving VTDecoderXPCService.xpc package out of its system folder and restarting:

sudo mv /System/Library/Frameworks/VideoToolbox.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/VTDecoderXPCService.xpc ~/
sudo shutdown -r now

--Niko

This is what's happening to me too but it occurs at random times with 1-3 of the same commercials playing at the same time. I only had google search open in Firefox so I opened Activity Monitor and checked all of the program s that were running. In Activity Monitor, Firefox had a drop-down arrow so I clicked on in and it showed an item that had something to do with shock-wave. I force quit the item and the sound sent away. The other line item showing is: VTDecoderXPCService .

I am baffled as to what is going on. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Is there any chance this is a wrapper around the streaming portion of APPLEmusic?

Call me crazy but recently everything was sluggish and I kept seeing that, closed all but Firefox, still there. I keep "force quitting" it and it keeps coming back, so I looked at what I had up in FF and once I shut down Facebook (which was running with FB Purity) it no longer came back.
Could it seriously be FB?

The only application running is FireFox/Facebook. VTDecoderXPCService and Flash make the temp shoot up, the CPU slow to a crawl, and my blood pressure elevates. The solution MUST NOT be more memory / new computer. That's ridiculous.

I also had this issue, with up to 28% of cpu being sucked up by VTDecoderXPCService. I shut down possible problem applications one by one: Chrome, Thunderbird, iTunes, etc. with no change. Then I remembered that Full Deck Solitaire had a video background and changed it to wallpaper, and voila, VTDecoderXPCService shut down and did not come back. It also fixed some of the issues I was having with speed, so I think the hit of ~30% of the cpu was making speed issues apparent. (spinning balls, spinning circles, etc.) Even filling in the Open With program list was sometimes taking 8-10 seconds or more when clicking on a TXT file! I have not checked if this helped that issue yet.

Based on this, you might check anything that may have a video loaded/running, even in the background. With the ubiquitous videos on all web pages anymore, this might be an issue where I go back to the DOS days and Quit the browser unless I am going to use it. Caveat: I have not checked in depth to see if having the browser open brings back VTDecoderXPCService, but a quick check does not seem to be a problem.

This is on a mid 2010 MBP with 2.66 GHz i7 dual core and 8 GB ram running 10.10.5 Yosemite.

Hope it helps.

Not on Lion (I'm on El Capitan) but this was the thread that first came up.... My issue was background video content on the homepage of the website CharityWater.com using Chrome 47. For every tab of this website open, VTDecoderXPCService was using 25% of my CPU.

Had the same issue with El Capitan (MacBook Pro late 2011). Found out that Evernote was using this process. Solved by quitting the Evernote app.

Same Problem solved: 30% CPU because of opening this url: http://eyeem.com/ - by closing tabs of not yet visited websites first it turn out that it was that one. no idea what is running on that page behind the curtain.

bravely running, easily breathing and never crashing soul called "the machine": macbook pro 15" early 2009 - OSX 10.10 yosemite - little tuning

Thanks for this post.. I had a similar problem but I'm still using Yosemite, was the Uber homepage large video running constantly in chrome 49, killed the tab and hey presto process gone! Was taking 30% CPU

I was able to simply Quit the VTDecoderXPCService from the Activity Monitor screen (seeing as it was the largest user of CPU time by far, it had to be my problem...) - the process instantly restarted, but was running as expected, and not sucking all my CPU processing time. This had no ill side-effects on websites, or Quicktime video applications that were running. I suggest just quitting this service when the CPU slows, it seems to be a simple solution, that doesn't involve stopping your work wherever you may be. 🙂

I have OS X El Capitan, I am only listening to music on YouTube. No special plug-in installed in Safari. Everything is deactivate in the System Preferences. VTDecoderXPCService and Quicktime ?

I was having a similar problem and my Macbook became insanely slow (i7 2.2Ghz with 16GB RAM). After looking around I found that

I had a web page opened to the Flixel.com site which has a huge gallery of motion .jpgs similar to Apple's iPhone picture taking app.

By shutting the page down the laptop literally sprang back to life after consuming 620% of CPU. Hope this helps.

your step solved my issue!

thank you!