In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder is joined by Jorge Novillo and Jose Baldner to introduce us to Media eXperience Analyzer (MXA). Media eXperience Analyzer (formerly WindowsXRay) is a tool used to visualize ETW traces, with a particular emphasis on media scenarios such as audio/video capture and playback. Timeline:[00:00] Introductions[01:20] What is MXA? What's it good for?[05:34] Installing and setting up MXA (Download link). You also should install Windows Performance Toolkit which is included in the Assessment and Deployment Kit.[07:28] Demo #1: Collecting a trace to analyze in MXA - full of audio and video playback glitches[11:02] Before loading a trace, make sure the symbol path is correct (use the included setsymbolpath.cmd if necessary)[11:37] Loading the trace into MXA and getting a feel for the UI and various datasets available to view[14:46] Let's start with the Audio Glitches and Video Glitches datasets to identify where the problem is[16:15] The CPU Scheduler dataset is very useful; shows which threads were running, and when[20:11] Help->Shortcuts tells you all the keyboard/navigation shortcuts[20:40] Context Switch Call Stack dataviewer shows you when a thread started running, what it was waiting on[21:58] Callstacks dataset compiles all the events that had call stacks captured with them[23:44] Stack Tree data viewer shows the summary breakdown of all call stacks over a selected time[24:45] Using the Video Glitches and DMA Operations datasets to see what the GPU was doing during the glitches[26:37] Demo #2: An audio glitch that occurred when the screen got powered on[27:14] Start with the Audio Glitches and CPU Scheduler datasets[30:52] Use the Callstacks dataset to identify the culprit: display driver was spending too long executing a DPC[34:33] Email us at [email protected]