The file girafficwatchdog.exe, known as Giraffic Video Accelerator Watchdog, belongs to software Giraffic Video Accelerator by Giraffic. This application enables high quality video streaming on mobile devices such as laptops, notebooks, iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones. The Giraffic Video Accelerator can be used as add-on to any existing video website or iPTV service to provide enhanced video quality, substantially lower bandwidth costs, and smoother streaming. Giraffic Video Accelerator is an architecture in the Giraffic Adaptive Video Acceleration program that also includes Giraffic Crowd Streaming. The application platform is based on key elements that include FEC Based Encoding, Pro-Active Seeding, Asynchronous Coded Multi-Source Streaming, Automatic Data Healing, and many other features that contribute to enhance user experience. The Asynchronous Coded Multi-Source Streaming is a breakthrough streaming technology that obtains data in random order from dozens of sources simultaneously and assembles media on-the-fly in asynchronous order. Users of Giraffic are not required to change existing video infrastructure since Giraffic seamlessly interoperates with CDN and Online Video Management platform, existing website player, and origin servers.
How can I stop girafficwatchdog.exe and should I?
Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. girafficwatchdog.exe. is used by Giraffic Video Accelerator, If you shut down girafficwatchdog.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop girafficwatchdog.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Giraffic Video Accelerator, from your system.
After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.
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What is a process and how do they affect my computer?
A process usually a part of an installed application such as Giraffic Video Accelerator, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.
Is girafficwatchdog.exe known to be bad for my computer's performance?
We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.
What can I do if girafficwatchdog.exe is causing errors on my computer?
The first thing you should do if girafficwatchdog.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that girafficwatchdog.exe, belongs to, in this case Giraffic Video Accelerator