@ebian: I just tried the new SVN 16281 both for TVservice & MP. The tvservice process is still hanging after sometime. I tried a channel scan. For that I unmapped all channels from each card. The scan was done.
The preview is also not working here (tvservice log attached). I will try to produce the channel change log as described in the last SVN thread.
Stopping the service via service control panel will only work directly after starting the tvservice.exe. (TVservice had not be using any TV card)

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