Peacock Downloader

[KidJoe]

Analyzing Phase is using 100% of the C drive capacity and freezing everything from running. What the hell did you people do to this new update????
Do we need 10 instances of QCEF.exe running?

What exactly are you doing during the analyzing phase that would use 100% drive capacity?

I know I'm joining late, but... I don't see the analyzing phase eating hard drive space.

And while I don't see "10" QCEF.EXE instances, I have on occasion seen as many as 7 ot 9 while downloading. AND I have on occasion seen 3 or 4 instances of QCEF.EXE remain in "Background processes" in Task Manager on my windows 10 box, after exiting StreamFab. I'd have to manually kill those if I want to restart StreamFab. BUT that is not consistent.

I just downloaded Asteroid City and The Super Mario Bros. Movie from Peacock. StreamFab was listed in task manager under Apps, under it I had 9 QCef.exe, a YoutubeToMP3Process, YoutubeToMP3Service, and StreamFab. During the processes, the number of QCef.exe dropped to as few as 4 and up to to as many as 11, then settled on 9.

That said, I moved my StreamFab Temp and Log folders under D:\- C\StreamFab\ (a WD WD80EDAZ, white label 8TB removed from EasyStore USB). And the output drive is F:\BluRay-Working\- DVDFab10\DVDFab Downloader\ (a WD WD4005FZBX Black 4TB) I never see the free space majorly change on any drive while SF is downloading no matter how many files I have queued up.

I only update SF by using the Offline Installer. (I download it each release and run it).

[Cats4U]

Thank you for sharing. I am one of the original participants in that thread and that issue isn't the one here. That pertains to qcef not closing properly. This thread is about a dozen of them opening up from the start of the program and eating up the drive.

As I said, open any browser and watch with the Task Manager. The browser processes will grow (even with 1 tab open) to 5 or more active processes and then shrink and grow and shrink, etc. This is absolutely normal. I have yet to see an individual process eat up more that 3% CPU while the browser is idle. In your other message you say that StreamFab sometimes goes unresponsive. How are you measuring that? I hope you aren't relying on the green line going across the screen. That is purely cosmetic and absurdly inaccurate.
I just don't understand your comment that normally your CPU is at 8-10% and memory at under 40%. You make it sound like that should not increase when SF is running. You don't get something for nothing. StreamFab performs many complex calculations and actions; of course your resources are going to be used.
Let me show you with screenshots... I started out with my computer running idle (several programs running in the background such as Qbittorrent). I then started up StreamFab and let that run idle. I then loaded up Paramount+ (just randomly chosen out of all the VIPs that I subscribe to) and started a download of a random show episode (The Neighborhood S04E04). And finally it was processed by SF. I did not get to screenshot of the Remux because it completed too fast. It was probably comparable to the processing phase.

Computer idle


StreamFab idle


StreamFab downloading


StreamFab processing


I don't know where those readings in the white came from. I did not actually see them there while I was screen capturing otherwise I wouldn't have captured them. They seem to be a prior reading and still follow the progression I was trying to show. If you are wondering which program I used, it is Process Lasso Pro. https://bitsum.com/

[jimc115]

I know I'm joining late, but... I don't see the analyzing phase eating hard drive space.

And while I don't see "10" QCEF.EXE instances, I have on occasion seen as many as 7 ot 9 while downloading. AND I have on occasion seen 3 or 4 instances of QCEF.EXE remain in "Background processes" in Task Manager on my windows 10 box, after exiting StreamFab. I'd have to manually kill those if I want to restart StreamFab. BUT that is not consistent.

I just downloaded Asteroid City and The Super Mario Bros. Movie from Peacock. StreamFab was listed in task manager under Apps, under it I had 9 QCef.exe, a YoutubeToMP3Process, YoutubeToMP3Service, and StreamFab. During the processes, the number of QCef.exe dropped to as few as 4 and up to to as many as 11, then settled on 9.

That said, I moved my StreamFab Temp and Log folders under D:\- C\StreamFab\ (a WD WD80EDAZ, white label 8TB removed from EasyStore USB). And the output drive is F:\BluRay-Working\- DVDFab10\DVDFab Downloader\ (a WD WD4005FZBX Black 4TB) I never see the free space majorly change on any drive while SF is downloading no matter how many files I have queued up.

I only update SF by using the Offline Installer. (I download it each release and run it).

Thanks KidJoe....

I just got a new drive to toss in that I could dedicate just for SF and AS...moved as you suggested. I also did re-update with the offline copy and it helped also.