TV stopped working (black screen or colored pixels) (1 Viewer)

[foboy]

I'm running V 1.2.3. Replacing TsReader.ax didn't help...

 

[foboy]

Good news seems like I found the problem:
MsMpEng.exe

I bet it's been messing around with every active .TS file because disabling MS Security Essentials live scan makes MP work like a charm again. (well,almost) Thanks again for your help Holzi anyway

 

[mm1352000]

I bet it's been messing around with every active .TS file because disabling MS Security Essentials live scan makes MP work like a charm again. (well,almost) Thanks again for your help Holzi anyway

The problem is MS Security essentials is scanning your timeshift/recording folder. This is causing a lot of stress for your HDD. Make an exception for those folder(s) and the problem will go away.

 

[foboy]

Already did that Everything works nice again.

 

[maff90]

I think this has just happened to me live tv just stopped working i got a blank screen and the odd crackle of sound now and then and mediaportal freezing. I didn't have a clue what was going on and after i read this i saw msmpeng.exe was using way to much cpu. Thanks for pointing this out i disabled a couple of things from start up that didn't look necessary (i still had remote potato running from when i used windows media centre) as the microstoft website said and it seems to have worked. i will also stop ms se from scanning the recording folder just in case

 

[fyx]

Hey guys I'm getting this very same issue but on windows 8 ... Sounds like it might be the same thing as it just 'started happening'. Only issue is I have no idea about all of the security stuff that win8 is up too[DOUBLEPOST=1349945644][/DOUBLEPOST]Right I just disabled the real time checking in windows defender so the same problem definitely exists in win8 pro

 

[TheBatfink]

I've been slowly getting problems with slow tuning and eventually culminated tonight in tuning to a black screen and a ts log full of continuity errors. Stumbled across this thread and decided to look at security essentials too..

I added in all my mediaportal processes (MePo, TVService) and all the folders related to MePo (installation, recordings and timeshift) and what do you know.. channel tunings that are probably 4 times faster than they were before and a clean tune every time.

Thanks very much.. would never of guess MSE would be causing the issue. Can't believe a quad core cpu and windows 7 on an ssd cant cope with MePo and MSE at the same time.

 

[mm1352000]

Can't believe a quad core cpu and windows 7 on an ssd cant cope with MePo and MSE at the same time.

The issue is the HDD/SSD. It probably doesn't matter how fast it is: if MSE is trying to rescan the timeshift or recording files at the same rate that TV Server is spitting them out then there is a problem.