Comressord running in Activty Monitor

You probably have a job that never completed because of a crash or a forced quit. When a process is highlighted in red in the Activity Monitor it means that the process is either hung (truly and completely) or it may just be so busy that it isn't responding in the way that the system expects. compressord sometimes does the latter and I'd consider that somewhat "normal." How you can get the job(s) that are currently pending to complete or to be cancelled is another matter. If you manually launch Compressor's Batch Monitor do you see any pending jobs? How about it you submit a batch job with Compressor and then check Batch Monitor? If you can get these jobs to appear in Batch Monitor you should be able to cancel them, but give Batch Monitor a good amount of time to work on the cancel before you quit or restart your system. If the former doesn't work just let the system run for several hours unattended and see if the jobs clear by themselves.

Anyone have a solution for this yet ? I am having the same problem and it is really annoying me :s

Hey Alex ... I just tried this few minutes ago and so far i havent seen the not responding in the Activity Monitor yet. Try and Reset Backround Processing in Compresser from the menu. I think this should solve your problem, At least it did for me, At the moment 🙂

I just found out another thing. The reset Backround Processing method doesnt work. I still have the NOT RESPONDING message. But i found something useful. I just installed Shake 4.1 and apple says that Qmaster which is included with Shake is not compatible with Compresser
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303967
NOW, I hope this helps 🙂