what is the BackgroundTranscoder.exe task?

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  Can you find out where that program is on your server's hard drive? Usually that will give you a good hint as to what it is. :)

  That said, I would guess it's additional software installed by HP.

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  Thursday, May 6, 2010 12:11 PM

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  thank you for the suggestion.

   BackgroundTranscoder.exe lives in c:\program files\windows home server\

  its copyright is HP, i posted the same question on the http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum and i guess no one at HP monitors that forum or they dont know what it is.

  its been runnig for days now taking 60-90% of the CPU and slowing down everything else.

  Thursday, May 6, 2010 10:56 PM
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  I don't have an HP, but my guess is that it is a media transcoder ... ala it is used for HP's media streaming. You could try to disable that streaming function

  Thursday, May 6, 2010 11:19 PM
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  sounds reasonable that its a media streaming task, but i dont stream any media.

  Friday, May 7, 2010 12:09 PM
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  If you have media on your server, it may be busy indexing it. As Evaders99 suggested, turn off streaming (both Microsoft's and HP's) if you're not using it.

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  Friday, May 7, 2010 11:57 PM

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  well the server is back to normal, but i dont know why.  i did not put any new media on it, and i had streaming turned off.

  thanx everyone for your help.

  • Proposed as answer by kariya21Moderator Sunday, May 16, 2010 4:18 PM

  Monday, May 10, 2010 12:09 PM