ITunes store videos using way too much CPU

I recently purchased some tv shows from the iTunes store (Daily Show and South Park). When I play these, iTunes CPU usage goes up to 90% or higher, and basically freezes my whole computer, including the video. CPU usage spikes especially high in 'action' type sequences. An explosion in an episode of South Park sends CPU up to 110% and freezes everything immediately. I have OS X 10.5 on a Core 2 Duo Macbook with 2gb ram. I have hundreds of other videos and none of them cause this problem.
Anyone know whats wrong?

Not a solution, but if the Podcast feed is dormant, why not unsubscribe?
As to the file structure for media on the device it is deliberately obscured as a countermeasure to casual piracy. See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device. Content put on the iPod by a non-iPod aware product is going to treat it like any external drive. The iPod firmware won't read that media.
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ApplicationManager.java_
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import javax.swing.JButton;
* This is the starting point of the application. It is mainly entrusted with the task of respondong to events
* generated by MainWindow
public class ApplicationManager extends MouseAdapter implements ActionListener{
MainWindow mainWin;
static ApplicationManager application = null;
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public static void main(String[] args) {
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MainWindow.java_
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.Event;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.KeyStroke;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
import java.util.ArrayList;
class MainWindow {
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     private JMenuItem exitMenuItem = null;
     private JMenuItem aboutMenuItem = null;
     JMenuItem saveMenuItem = null;
     private JLabel jLabel = null;
     private JMenuItem jMenuItem = null;
        JTabbedPane ClientArea = null;
        ArrayList<ManagerUI> clientSpace;
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          if (jFrame == null) {
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      * This method initializes jContentPane
      * @return javax.swing.JPanel
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          if (jContentPane == null) {
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      * This method initializes jJMenuBar
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          if (jJMenuBar == null) {
               jJMenuBar = new JMenuBar();
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      * This method initializes jMenu
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          if (fileMenu == null) {
               fileMenu = new JMenu();
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               fileMenu.add(getExitMenuItem());
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               exitMenuItem.setText("Exit");
               exitMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                         System.exit(0);
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      * This method initializes jMenuItem
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          if (saveMenuItem == null) {
               saveMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
               saveMenuItem.setText("Save");
               saveMenuItem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_S,
                         Event.CTRL_MASK, true));
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      * @return javax.swing.JMenuItem
     private JMenuItem getJMenuItem() {
          if (jMenuItem == null) {
               jMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
          return jMenuItem;
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      * @return javax.swing.JTabbedPane
     private JTabbedPane getClientArea() {
     if (ClientArea == null) {
               ClientArea = new JTabbedPane();
               ClientArea.setTabPlacement(JTabbedPane.BOTTOM); // Generated
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      * This allows for opening and creation of multiple files.
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          ClientArea.addTab(title, new JScrollPane().add(getClientRegion(title)));
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          clientSpace.add(m);
          return m;
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        if(clientSpace==null){
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          getJFrame().setVisible(true);
ManagerUI.java_
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.Color;
public class ManagerUI extends JPanel implements Runnable{
private int frame=0; //This wasn't declared in actual program.
private Image simBuffer;
private volatile boolean terminate;
It does all the drawing in graphics area.
ManagerUI(String name){
terminate=false;
simBuffer=null;
Thread t;
t=new Thread(this,name);//Starts the rendering thread.
t.start();
public void stop(){
terminate=true;
public void run(){
     System.out.println("Thread Started");
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     long overSleepTime = 0L; //Amount of time (in ms) over slept.
     int noDelays = 0; //Counter for no. of sleeps it has skipped.
     long period = (long) (((double) 1000)/30); //Amount of time a frame maybe displayed, in ms.
     terminate = false;
     beforeTime = System.currentTimeMillis( );
     while(!terminate){
             repaint();
          //render2buf();
          //activepaint();
          afterTime = System.currentTimeMillis( );
          timeDiff = afterTime - beforeTime;
          sleepTime = (period - timeDiff) - overSleepTime;   // time left in this loop
          if (sleepTime > 0) {   // some time left in this cycle
          try {
               Thread.sleep(sleepTime); // in ms
          catch(InterruptedException ex){}
          overSleepTime = (System.currentTimeMillis( ) - afterTime) - sleepTime;
          else {    // sleepTime <= 0; frame took longer than the period
               overSleepTime = 0L;
               if (++noDelays >= 6) {
                    Thread.yield( );   // give another thread a chance to run
                    noDelays = 0;
          beforeTime = System.currentTimeMillis( );
public synchronized Image render2buf(){
        if(this.getSize().height<=0 || this.getSize().width<=0) return null;
        int PHEIGHT = this.getSize().height;
         int PWIDTH = this.getSize().width;
         Graphics g=null;
         //draw the current frame to an image buffer
        if (simBuffer == null){ //PROBLEM LINE. coment out this line and...
             simBuffer = createImage(PWIDTH, PHEIGHT);
            if (simBuffer == null) {
                 System.out.println("simBuffer is null");
                 return null;
            }//PROBLEM LINE. ...this line
        g = simBuffer.getGraphics( );
        //Clear the background
        g.setColor(Color.white);
        g.fillRect (0, 0, PWIDTH, PHEIGHT);
         //code to draw graphics into 'g'.
         g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
         g.drawString("This is test message.",50,50);
         g.drawString("Frame No = "+(frame++),50,200);
     return simBuffer;
public synchronized void activepaint(Graphics g){//This code is taken from OReilly Killer Game Programming in Java
         //Graphics g;
        try {
             //g = this.getGraphics( ); // get the panel's graphic context
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             e.printStackTrace();
public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
     super.paintComponent(g);
     render2buf();
     activepaint(g);
First compile and run the above program. Now in file ManagerUI.java search for two lines with the text "PROBLEM LINE". Comment out both these lines and recompile and re-run the program. Now the CPU usage shoots to above 60% from around 2% (in former case). Why is this happening? Is there a workaround? I have Kubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04. I have Sun Java 1.6.0-b105 installed.

Ok here is the modified and updated version. Now I have condensed the program to two files. Now compile and run Main.java
Main.java_
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
class Main{
     ManagerUI m;
     public static void main(String a[]){
          Main M = new Main();
          M.startapp();
          M.m.startthread();
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          JFrame jFrame = new JFrame();
          jFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
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          jFrame.setContentPane(getJContentPane());
          jFrame.setTitle("LANSim");
          jFrame.setVisible(true);
     private JPanel getJContentPane() {
          m = new ManagerUI();
          JPanel jContentPane;
          jContentPane = new JPanel();
          jContentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          jContentPane.add(m, BorderLayout.CENTER);
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ManagerUI.java_
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.Color;
public class ManagerUI extends JPanel implements Runnable{
private int frame=0; //This wasn't declared in actual program.
private Image simBuffer;
private volatile boolean terminate;
private Thread t;
It does all the drawing in graphics area.
ManagerUI(){
terminate=false;
simBuffer=null;
public void startthread(){
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                    t.join();//Wait for the thread to end.
               } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    System.out.println("Failed to join to ManagerUI Thread before starting another one.");
                    e.printStackTrace();
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terminate=true;
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          if (sleepTime > 0) {   // some time left in this cycle
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               Thread.sleep(sleepTime); // in ms
          catch(InterruptedException ex){}
          overSleepTime = (System.currentTimeMillis( ) - afterTime) - sleepTime;
          else {    // sleepTime <= 0; frame took longer than the period
               overSleepTime = 0L;
               if (++noDelays >= 6) {
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          beforeTime = System.currentTimeMillis( );
public Image render2buf(){
        if(this.getSize().height<=0 || this.getSize().width<=0) return null;
        int PHEIGHT = this.getSize().height;
         int PWIDTH = this.getSize().width;
         Graphics g=null;
         //draw the current frame to an image buffer
        if (simBuffer == null){ //PROBLEM LINE. coment out this line and...
             simBuffer = createImage(PWIDTH, PHEIGHT);
            if (simBuffer == null) {
                 System.out.println("simBuffer is null");
                 return null;
        }//PROBLEM LINE. ...this line
        g = simBuffer.getGraphics( );
        //Clear the background
        g.setColor(Color.white);
        g.fillRect (0, 0, PWIDTH, PHEIGHT);
         //code to draw graphics into 'g'.
         g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
         g.drawString("This is test message.",50,50);
         g.drawString("Frame No = "+(frame++),50,200);
     return simBuffer;
public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
     super.paintComponent(g);
     if(simBuffer!=null)
     g.drawImage(simBuffer,0,0,null);
}Don't forget to comment out the lines with the text PROBLEM LINE

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Brookefernandez, I want you to enjoy your phone and not have to worry about anything. We would be sad to see you leave the Verizon Wireless family. So let's take a look and see what is causing all of this data to be used. What kind of device do you have? How many lines are on your account? On a normal day what applications are used the most on the devices? Please keep us posted.
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9/2/11 11:37:08 PM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[216]    (com.xrite.device.message) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
9/2/11 11:37:12 PM    com.apple.launchd[1]    (com.xrite.device.colormunki[14667]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/X-Rite/Devices/ColorMunkiDeviceService.app/Contents/MacOS/ColorMunkiDev iceService", ...): No such file or directory
9/2/11 11:37:12 PM    com.apple.launchd[1]    (com.xrite.device.colormunki[14667]) Exited with exit code: 1
9/2/11 11:37:12 PM    com.apple.launchd[1]    (com.xrite.device.colormunki) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
9/2/11 11:37:18 PM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[216]    (com.xrite.device.message[14668]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/X-Rite/Devices/message.app/Contents/MacOS/message", ...): No such file or directory
9/2/11 11:37:18 PM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[216]    (com.xrite.device.message[14668]) Exited with exit code: 1
9/2/11 11:37:18 PM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[216]    (com.xrite.device.message) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
9/2/11 11:37:22 PM    com.apple.launchd[1]    (com.xrite.device.colormunki[14669]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/X-Rite/Devices/ColorMunkiDeviceService.app/Contents/MacOS/ColorMunkiDev iceService", ...): No such file or directory
9/2/11 11:37:22 PM    com.apple.launchd[1]    (com.xrite.device.colormunki[14669]) Exited with exit code: 1

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