I suddenly have VTDecoderXPCService making my mack run hot, chewing up CPU cycles and eventually forcing me to restart. Given that it is normally associated with the iSight Camera, I am concerned because I don't have anything open connected to the camera. 80% of the time the only thing I use is Safari, Firefox and Mail. The other 20% is Lightroom and Preview. What the heck is going on?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
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I'm also having this issue on my Late 2011 MBP 2.5GHz i7, 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MB. But only when I play 1440HD and 4k videos. As soon as I play a 1440HD video on Quicktime or youtube "VTDecoderXPCService" appears in Activity Monitor at around 100%CPU and if I play a 4k video its around 200-240%CPU. Also the fan immediately kicks on full blast. Anyone have a solution?
Playing video requires work. Quit playing video or play smaller versions of the files to reduces the problem.
A 2011 MBP is getting old now - video sizes, bitrates, compression formats keeps changing and become more complex (so they require hardware acceleration to play well) but your Mac doesn't get any faster, something has to give.
I have just noticed that on mine first generation unibody Macbook (running OSX 10.10.4 and 8GB RAM) the VTDecoderXPCService eats about 25% CPU - it seemed to have been related to some of the webpages I had opened in Safari at the time. I did not investigate it in more detail, but I also had some web content (http://www2....) eating another 20% CPU or so. Once I closed a couple of tabs both processes disappeared.
According to some Google searching, VTDecoderXPCService is sandboxing for video content. One report had the System Preferences -> Trackpad video tutorials used VTDecoderXPCService, and I assume many other things that might process video might use VTDecoderXPCService.
I have this same problem but can get no help. Will someone at Apple please help us.
VTDecoderXPCService suddenly eating CPU making my MBP run hot
