I had the same problem when going to the Recorded TV screen. I renamed the mtn.exe to zzzzzmtn.exe within the filesystem (C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MovieThumbnailer). Problem went away, but I'm not clear on what else it broke (if anything). I was unable to find a setting to do it the proper way. Seems like someone here would know what knob to turn.
Renaming mtn.exe won't cause any harm - the code has checks for that.
Configuration.exe (using Advanced Mode) has an option to "autocreate thumbs for recordings" in the general thumbs section. This is the setting you are searching for.
My system has recently started doing this - I think after Windows updates (no changes to MediaPortal). I don't really want to disable thumbnail generation if I can help it (it's quite useful on telly recordings), so is there a known cause of this? It happens pretty regularly so if logs will help I can generate some later and post them.
Rob
EDIT: Just found another post by rtv here that suggests it could be caused by a dodgy recording file somewhere - I'll have a look at the logs tonight and see if I can find out.
OK, sorted it - it was a dodgy recording file. It was actually very obvious in MediaPortal.log once I realised mtn.exe had something to do with MP. Deleted the offending file and all is happy again.
Got a reply from SD ...
"Looks like your last successful download was on 5/23.
On 5/24 for some reason we received 194 connections between 10:54 and 11:05
triggering a denial of service attack ban. The logs show it was lifted on 5/25,
but I still see the entry in iptables. I reset fail2ban and hopefully you're
working again."
Weird...
Got a reply from SD ...
"Looks like your last successful download was on 5/23.
On 5/24 for some reason we received 194...
I'm using MediaPortal 1.38.1 x64 and have an SD-DD lineup account. In the last week, I have not been able to update my EPG, and...
I switched back to MePo 1 some time ago, and havent really used it that much.
But i wanted to watch some old movies stored as ISO file.
Virtuel Clone drive is installed, and it can mount the ISO file.
However when i try to select it from MePo i only get an error that i cannot mount it.
[2026-06-07 14:56:35,994] [Error ] [MPMain ]...
I switched back to MePo 1 some time ago, and havent really used it that much.
But i wanted to watch some old movies stored as ISO...
I switched back to MePo 1 some time ago, and havent really used it that much.
But i wanted to watch some old movies stored as ISO...
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I meant use MP client to try to spot how it's requesting streams for specific channels and then try to do the same with VLC.
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I meant use MP client to try to spot how it's requesting streams for specific channels and then try to do the same with VLC.
TV...
Hi everyone,
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