CPU Usage % While Editing Video

We get quite a few questions on why CPU usage is below 100% in some operations. This applies to both PrE and PrPro. Here is a THREAD (on PrPro, so there are some Pro-specific comments involved in the thread), and Harm Millaard has distilled the possibilities nicely in Reply #1.
Note: there is a link to the PrPro CS5 Benchmark. The site, and benchmark files and tests are not available for PrE, but when comparing hardware, the spreadsheet of the performance data from users' configurations, can tell one a lot, even if they are running PrE, and cannot actually participate in the benchmarking - the data in that spreadsheet is still VERY useful, when looking at various computer configurations.
Good luck, and hope that this helps others,
Hunt

1) Why video rendering is taking about 3h to render 2.2Gb wma file to make it HD 720p 29.97 with H.264 codec? CPU is loaded only 16-20%, have alot of RAM. Ou and tried both OpenCL and system only renderer no change in time needed or CPU load.
Because of the source material and the hardware. Wrong CPU, video card an not enough memory.
2) Does Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (OpenCL) means GPU usage mostly and system only - CPU usage?
Exporting is CPU based, the Radeon does not help at all. Tweakers Page - Exporting Style
3) Why is so low CPU usage I thought that doing something big like video editing CPU should be fully loaded..., but here I see that it as I said is using only 16-20% and 2-3 cores aren't even in use.
Again because of the source material / codec and the hardware. Typical of ill-threaded codecs and the CPU.
4) Is it ok for a recorded game video to be big like 2-5Gb after rendering in HD format, because I think if films 44 min HD quality are 350-400MB than game videos should be about the same.
44 min. of HD material can never be 350-400 MB of decent quality. 44 min of SD material (DVD) is already over 3 GB for decent quality. For HD, even on YouTube, count on at least 4-5 GB for 44 minutes or more.
5) Maybe there is a better video capture app than Fraps, Overwolf, raptr GVR (well looked fine but I couldn't edit the video, Adobe element showed black screen and played audio) so that I could easelly edit it with adobe apps.
You can't capture with any of the software you mention, Capture is only possible with tape cased cameras over firewire.
Your AMD 8-core CPU is not suited for video editing, it is even slower than a 4-core Intel, because of the lacking SSE support. See Tweakers Page - What kind of PC to use? Your Radeon is pretty slow for editing, Tweakers Page - What video card to use? and the amount of memory is limited.

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%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
6.0 428 root /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-biq1sc
3.8 3690 ben /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 3231 plugin
2.4 4910 ben /usr/bin/systemsettings -caption System Settings --icon preferences-system
2.4 14853 ben clementine -t
1.9 3231 ben /usr/bin/firefox
Also, the screen doesn't have to be asleep, the system just needs to sit idle for a few minutes.
Last edited by hippieben (2014-09-20 19:10:58)

Not normal cpu usage when playing video files

Hi guys !
I've noticed that when playing videos (with every player , i've tried them all) there is a noticable cpu usage and with hd videos well the video is extremeley slow and unwatchable .
I have all the gstreamer plugins installed and i'm using gnome environment .
Does anyone know what might be the issue ?
my xorg.conf is :
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option    "Protocol" "auto"
Option    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB"    # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh"    # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV43 [GeForce Go 6600]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by shak (2009-11-19 03:55:53)

shak wrote:Also is there an easier way for mplayer to play my files , with default settings , so that i don't have to type a big command each time i want to play a video ?
Yes. You can put all of your personal default settings in the file ~/.mplayer/config. If it doesn't already exist, just create it. On my VDPAU enabled system it looks like this:
[default]
vo=vdpau,xv,
deint=4
hqscaling=9
vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,
channels=2
As far as subtitles go, I never use them so I have no idea.

CPU 90% While Playing Videos?

Hi,
My concern is: While waiting for youtube video to load my CPU ranges 10-20% but when I play the video my CPU range jumps 81-92% during entire video. If I stop the video it drops back down to 10%...Is this normal?
Of course this is better than last 2 weeks when it would stay up to 50-60% while just loading and jumped up to 100% when playing which was choppy as well.
Thank you for your time.

Also what is the "64MB VRAM" you posted...virtual/video?
Video, to see yours... System Profiler>Hardware>Video.
You posted: CPU usage on YouTube 36% to 65%. Is this loading & playback range?
Yes, that is loading & playing at the same time, depends on the Video though.
Is there something I could do to help lower it besides not ever playing any more videos or is this my only option?
Let's find out how much VRAM you have & what Video Card, but At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

Firefox is eating up between 90% CPU usage to %230 CPU usage, while on a text-only page. I've tried many of the fixits. They didn't work. What can I do?

I've cleared cookies multiple times
I've emptied the cache
I cleared my download history, and a majority of my browsing history
I've tried having hardware acceleration for both flash and firefox on and off
I turned off all my apps and plugins and when that did nothing I turned back on the ones I need. I never had a lot of apps to begin with. only a max of 5. I had quite a few plugins, but i disabled all but quicktime, flash, and silverlight. I have those three set on "ask to activate" so none are "always active" anymore.
I also tried a couple things from the FAQ and forums here about changing a few settings in the "about:config" setup.
A few of the above things initially worked, but after a day or two it'd be back to sucking up my CPU and memory. I would then try the same thing again, and this second time there would be no improvement.
The real memory will fluctuate between 200 MB and 1.7 GB, and has done so for quite a while.
Even after I've left streaming sites, and sites with lots of images, and I'm not downloading anything, the memory and the CPU will still do that. I only have a handful of tabs open at a timeusually, and all of them are mostly text. I'll quit and reopen firefox, which will initially bring the memory and CPU usage down, but it inevitably climbs up quite quickly, regardless of my tab usage. It'll be the same if I'm playing a flash game or scrolling through blogs.
I never had any of these problems with Firefox 23, and my internet usage habits haven't changed at all. I had some of this slowness a few times with version 24, but nowhere near as bad as this, or as constant. Almost everyday I end up googling for other ways to speed things up. Everything I do never slowed down Firefox on earlier versions.
I've tried all my usual tasks on Safari which will never climb above 30-40 MB of memory, even on netflix streaming, or flash games, and the CPU will average around 8 and 11%.

i'm also having major CPU problems w/ FF 29.0.1. when i restart the app it calms down again but after loading tabs it steadily climbs up to 100% after not too long. i have checked out the 2 CPU links/articles above and do all the basic troubleshooting and tips, but with all the FF tools & add-ons isn't there some sort of CPU monitor that has the ability to display which extensions/scripts are hogging the CPU? Activity Monitor on Mac just shows the total used by the app. it's impossible in my case to efficiently disable dozens of add-ons & scripts, restart, and test each one by one b/c it can take several hrs before the CPU starts to spike high again. i have no time for this.
thanks

IMac Air High CPU Usage while Idle / Kernel Issues

Hello,
I am attempting to repair an MacBook Air that a customer spilled a small amount of orange juice into. I have completely taken the unit apart and thoroughly cleaned the motherboard and all components. There doesn't appear to be any physical damage done from the liquid. The problem is that the customer claims that since the spill happened the computer runs "very slow" and the CPU usage is very high even while completely idle (Bounces between 60%-80%). Being versed primarily in Windows PC Repair I am looking to post some diagnostic logs on here and maybe get some help from someone who knows what they are looking at. The customer took the machine to the Apple Store and they told them it had a "kernel problem" and would need a new Logic Board. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I just need to know what diagnostic reports I need to post to get this ball rolling... Thank you for your time.
Taylor

Hello,
I am attempting to repair an MacBook Air that a customer spilled a small amount of orange juice into. I have completely taken the unit apart and thoroughly cleaned the motherboard and all components. There doesn't appear to be any physical damage done from the liquid. The problem is that the customer claims that since the spill happened the computer runs "very slow" and the CPU usage is very high even while completely idle (Bounces between 60%-80%). Being versed primarily in Windows PC Repair I am looking to post some diagnostic logs on here and maybe get some help from someone who knows what they are looking at. The customer took the machine to the Apple Store and they told them it had a "kernel problem" and would need a new Logic Board. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I just need to know what diagnostic reports I need to post to get this ball rolling... Thank you for your time.
Taylor

CPU usage while running Bex report

Hello,
Sometimes, when I run a Bex report with many lines the computer CPU Usage is 100% (=full ) for a long time. In some cases i need to do restart again for the computer.
In the WAD it doesnt happened...
Did anybody have the same problem? Is there a way to reduce the CPU usage?
Please Advice,
Amir

Amir,
This is "normal" behaviour in Bex with query's which return very long lists. The client computer already received all data, but is formatting the layout.
Solutions:
1) a faster pc with enough memory (512 mb) and win200 or >.
2) a query with less return rows.
The reason that in wad (web reporting) this is not experienced is because the formatting (rendering html) from the result table is done within the WAS (application server, which is hopefully faster then your PC...). Your browser only receives the html page..no exotic hardware needed for that..
Any questions left: please ask; if you're satisfied please grant with rewards.
Kind regards Patrick Rieken.
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