Windows Media Center crashes during live TV

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• Windows Media Center crashes during installation

  Help, please

  I have a Packard Bell with XP media Center Edition (2005 I think), it has recently been completely formatted and Windows re-installed by a company.

  It's only now (6 months later) I have bypass actually set up the Media Center.

  Here's what happens:

  When he asks me to "choose a provider of TV services", I choose one and click "next"...

  Then it crashes just forever.

  The program is still ongoing, but after a short while I get a black screen and nothing happens.

  Windows still works fine.

  Someone help me please

  Ant

  I have remove Microsoft framework 4 as suggested in a post about a similar problem, but nothing has changed

  Hello

  Some USB TV tuners that were included with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 systems do not have a unique serial ID. You may experience this problem if you use one of these TV tuners and its driver with Windows XP Media Center 2005. If your computer has been upgraded to Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 from Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, you can solve the problem by installing the latest driver for your TV tuner. Contact your hardware manufacturer to determine the existence of a Media Center 2005 compatible device driver for your TV tuner.

  For more information about your hardware manufacturer, visit the following Web site:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/GP/vendors/en-us

  It will be useful.

• Windows Media Center crashes on Vista when you try to play Netflix

  I can connect to Netflix and discover my queue and all the rest. I can view the details of the episodes and so forth, but when I click on 'Play', Windows Media Center crashes and restarts itself - every time.

  There are other problems in Windows Media Center. Sometimes it freezes during the display of other media, such as Internet TV. I had my computer more than a year, and this is the first time I tried to use Windows Media Center, so I don't know if it worked before.

  I tried to find an update for it, but all that I've tried say that it applies to my system. (I always install the automatic updates). I also ran the Fix It program, which says it completed, but which did not help.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Hi farrelldoc,

  1. What is the error message you receive library breaks down?

  2. did you of recent changes on the computer?

  3. what Microsoft fixit did you run on the computer?

  There is a known issue on some computers that have a chain very long user agent in Windows Internet Explorer. This problem occurs when the user-agent string exceeds 260 characters. There is currently no work around supported for that matter.

  For more information, see the Microsoft article and try the steps mentioned below.

  Known issues and limitations of Netflix on Windows Media Center for Windows Vista

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/972496

   

  For the Windows media center crashes when viewing other media issue try the following procedure.

  It is possible that some third-party programs installed on the computer is causing the problem.

  I suggest that you perform a clean boot and check.

  To help resolve the error and other messages, you can start Windows Vista or Windows 7 by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This type of boot is known as a "clean boot". A clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

  See the link below to learn more about how to clean boot.

  How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

  Reset the computer to start as usual

  When you are finished troubleshooting, follow these steps to reset the computer to start as usual:

  (a) click Start, type msconfig in the search box and press ENTER.

  (b) If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password or click on continue.

  (c) under the general tab, click the Normal startup option, and then click OK.

  (d) when you are prompted to restart the computer, click on restart.

  I hope this helps!

  Halima S - Microsoft technical support.

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• Windows media Center crashes when opening the music library

  Hello

  My Windows media Center crashes in windows7 whenever I click on the music library option, all other options as 'favorite game' works very well. I have to Ctrl + Alt + Del to close media center every time it freezes. Any suggestions someone please

  Hello

  Did you change your computer?

  I suggest you to follow the methods and check.

  Method 1:

  I suggest you to follow the steps and check.

  a. exit any running instance of Windows Media Center.
  b. Click Start and enter the following command in the search start and press on enter:
  %SystemDrive%\programdata\microsoft\ehome
  d. in the details, click pane right mediacenterdatastore.db and then click on remove.
  e. click Yes to confirm that you want to move the Mediacenterdatastore.db file to the trash.

  If the above fails, then I suggest lets you perform the cleanup start and check.

  Method 2:

  How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

  Note: After a repair, be sure to set the computer to start as usual as mentioned in step 7 in the above article.

• Windows media Center crashes or is freeze when I put it on the music or photos

  OT: windows media Center crashes or is freezing when I put on music or photos T V ok? Convenience store fix - it said codec not corrupted working.john
  REAL PLAYER SHELL EXTENSION CODEC ARE CORRUPT AND IT AFFECTS THE CENTER OF MEDIA EXCEPT TV ONLY MUSIC AND PHOTO OF SLOW ON THE COMMAND AND DOES NOT RESPOND TO THE MOUSE AS IT SEEMS NOT MEADIA CENTER FIX - MICROSOFT IT COULDN'T DO ANYTHING AS DELL. IT's WINDOWS 7 HOME PREMiUM

  Hi John,.

  1 have. what Microsoft fixit you tried?
  2. have you made changes on the computer recently?

  Method 1
  I suggest you perform the clean boot and check if the problem persists.

  How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135
  Note: follow step 7 clean boot KB929135 article to reset the computer in normal mode.

  Method 2
  I suggest you use your favorite search engine and the search for the cocec.

  Note: With the help of third-party software or a link, including hardware drivers can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the use of third party software or link can be resolved. Using third-party software or a link is at your own risk.

  Codecs: Frequently asked questions
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/codecs-frequently-asked-questions

• Cannot access controls in Windows Media Center after watching live TV

  original title: I can't find the controls for windows media center so when I watch live TV and have done I have to turn my pc off power then back to use my pc

  If I'm watching tv using the media library, that I need to stop and restart to be able to use my pc when I want to stop watching the tv

  I don't know why you would not be able to see the controls, but to stop the programme press ALT + F4 and it needs to close the active window.

  I hope this helps.

• Windows Media Center crashes when I click on "Save" or "Series Record" in the Guide

  I had a problem with MC of Win 7 (ehrecvr and ehsched services does not) that has been resolved, EXCEPT that whenever I hit "Record" or "Series Record" in the Guide, MC crashes. upon restart, it shows no record for the entry of guide. Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

  Log name: Application

  Source: Windows Error Reporting

  Date: 2010-07-08 10:57:36

  Event ID: 1001

  Task category: no

  Level: Information

  Keywords: Classic

  User: n/a

  Computer: DellStudio

  Description:

  Bucket of error, type 0

  Event name: CLR20r3

  Answer: No available

  Cabin ID: 0

  Signature of the problem:

  P1: ehshell.exe

  P2: 6.1.7600.16385

  P3: 4a5bd053

  P4: mcstore

  P5: 6.1.0.0

  P6: 4a5bda1e

  P7: 87D

  P8: eb

  P9: K00FQ3SX1BBMZSVVMZ43XMPES0XM1TGN

  P10:

  Hello
  
  You will remember to do recent changes on your computer before this problem?
  Disabling Mcupdate.exe scheduled task has allowed little to resolve this issue. You can also try turning it off and check for the issue.
  Method 1: Disabling Mcupdate.exe scheduled task.
  1. click on start.
  2. in the search box, type Task Scheduler.
  3. under programs, click Task Scheduler.
  If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or click on continue.
  4. in the navigation pane, expand Task Scheduler Library, expand Microsoft, expand Windows and then click on Media Center.
  5. in the details pane, right-click right mcupdate and then click on disable.
  
  Method 2: Rebuild the Media Center data store and see if that can solve the problem. To do this, follow these steps:
  
  a. exit any running instance of Windows Media Center.
  b. remove the mcepg2 - 0.db file. By default, this file is located in the following location:
  %SystemDrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome\mcepg2-0.DB
  To remove the file, follow these steps:
  i. click on start, type % systemdrive%\programdata\microsoft\ehome, and then press ENTER.
  II. in the details, click pane right mcepg2 - 0.db and then click on remove.
  III. click Yes to confirm that you want to move the file mcepg2 - 0.db to the trash.
  This file will be automatically created once you restart windows media center.
  I hope this helps.

  Thanks and greetings
  Umesh P - Microsoft technical support.

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• Windows Media Center crashes under Remote Desktop connection after the installation of KB2592687

  When you view another computer (Win7 Pro for Win7 Pro) via the remote desktop connection, this (KB2592687) update causes Windows Media Center not start or leave immediately, in both cases briefly showing a popup that reads:

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  Both computers have installed KB259687.  WMC works by connecting directly to each machine.  If KB259687 is uninstalled on the machine connected remotely via the remote desktop connection, you can run once again, WMC in the distance window.  Note the video is not available, but you are able to verify existing records, change the calendar, see the rack TV, etc. (everything as before).  Records on demand on the PC are working correctly, I had a crash the system (blue screen) apparently because of this.

  Note that there is no problem watching a WMC when using desktop remote connection to a Pro Win8 machine when connected to a machine, Win7 Pro.  WMC is installed on the machine Win8 Pro and is adjustable from inside the Desktop Login window on the Win7 Pro machine remotely.

  I had the same problem, but uninstalling the update didn't fix it for me.   I have studied and found that permissions for key reg key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\Rdp-Tcp included not all permissions for the users group, just like the other subkeys.  Maybe the update of above RDP modified these permissions?  In any case, when I added for this key for users read permissions, shell new WMC would begin in an RDP session.  I also found this race the ehshell 'as administrator' would work under RDP, but this was not necessary in the past.

• Windows Media Center crashes when I try to put the Xbox 360 as an Extender

  Hello

  Currently, I am trying to set up my Xbox 360 as an Extender for Windows Media Center.  Everything goes well until I enter the 8-digit code.  I am able to enter the code and when I click on 'Next', it says that the program has stopped responding.  I tried both disable the firewall on my computer and clear the Cache on my Xbox 360 system.  You have any other suggestions as to what could cause this problem and how to fix it?  Thank you.

  Hi Josh

  You can get support for all things XBox on the following Microsoft Web sites.

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  http://support.Xbox.com/en-us/pages/default.aspx

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  When you use Windows Media Center to play a DVD, WMC freezes and restarts before loading even the DVD Menu.

  No, I always had this problem. Is it possible, that it was caused by the update to Media Center cumulative?

  Any help would be useful,

  Thank you

  I have found no error. At this point, I'll just reinstall my OS.

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• Windows media center crashes or goes into mode 'sleep'

  In the use of windows media center of my system locks up or past in mode "sleep" with no way out. The screen tends to go to power saving mode. My only recourse is too restart.

  Check your system power settings.

  Additional help here: -.

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• Windows Media CENTER stops during playback TV

  Using Vista and HVR-1800 tuner, Windows Media Center stops (with warnings and sometimes rebooting Windows, but shutsdown) TV.

  Update your tv tuner card driver. Visit the manufacturer's Web site to download and install the latest version of the driver.

  Also look at the event viewer to find any clue, associated with such embarrassing behavior.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows-Vista/open-Event-Viewer

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• Windows Media Center crashes when I try to add extender

  About two weeks ago (about 9/30; "I think that was a day after an MSE update), my Xbox 360 suddenly stopped recognizing my Windows Media Center PC. When I would try to set up my Extender, she would get to the first step before you give me an error "cannot set up Extender. I checked to make sure that all services were running, the firewall allowed programs through and so on, but kept getting the same error.

  About a week after that, the error "Cannot set up Extender" has been replaced with an error "Windows Media Center has stopped working". It reads: "a problem caused blocking the program works correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. "He was giving me this error whenever I try to add the extension since last week.
  I tried disabling my firewall, WCM via the Control Panel, delete the mcepg2 file in the eHome folder, rename the eHome folder, remove mediacenteredatastore.db, tries to connect via another user and all other solutions I found on the forums of uninstalling/reinstalling. I would greatly appreciate it someone could solve this, like many other people, because it seems that there are several issues across the internet on this error. Please let me know if I can provide more information about this error and how to give it. Thank you.

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• Media Center crashes during video playback of need to hard reboot.

  Hi, any help would be greatly appreciated as this has been driving me crazy for several days of attempted troubleshooting, Googling, try many things to fix it... first of all let me apologize in advance for the length of my post but I wanted to give as much information as possible to help anyone trying to rule out things...!

  OK, so the problem...

  I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit as a clean install on my HTPC, after the first do a complete 1 & 0 format of the hard drive that had previously installed Vista Home Premium, installation went well and I proceeded to install all updates to Windows, and then update drivers for all my hardware.

  The system is used only as a HTPC, it's my only TV and video playback device, (so reliability is essential for me) and it is connected to a defintion of Sony, 44 "Widescreen Rear Projection TV Standard, via S-video, with audio goes to a system DD/DTS 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker Logitech z5500, via a sound card by using the optical cable (specifications of the complete system below).  The system worked flawlessly more of one year using Vista SP1 32 - bit, until I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate on the hardware configuration identical.

  Since installing Windows 7, it worked fine for the first week, not a single problem, I am housebound are disabled so that the system is in continuous service 24/7 and he had no problems in the first 10 days, however all of a sudden I'm getting now random freezes requiring a hard reset , but it occurs during video playback of any of my 3 hard disks, or when you try to play a DVD in Media Center. Which led me to think it is associated video (problem of driver or hardware fault) card, disc or HARD associated.

  Frost can occur sometimes, after a few minutes of reading, or sometimes after a few hours, requiring a restart of the hard to get the sytem to answer.

  Reading of the TV via the TV Tuner card is not affected, its only when playing of stored content (MPEG2, h264 .mkv .avi files or DVD) are all media SD HD and all played fine for the first few days.

  Intermittent freezes occurring could block the system completely freeze the image and audio and all activities, nothing would work at all, I tried windwos keyboard, ctrl alt del, nothing at all, to do a reboot hard to recover the system, it can then be either minutes or sometimes an hour before the same thing happens again. I tried to use different video files in the case of the corruption of files, different DVD to exclude damaged disks, same result.

  System includes:

  1. Map - mother ASUS M3A32 - MVP Dlx, Socket AM2 +, 790FX/SB600 chipset, BIOS v.2003
  2. Operating system - Windows 7 complete edition 32-bit Retail (clean install, all the Windows installed updates)
  3. CPU : AMD Phenom 9950 Quad Core @ 2.6 Ghz (stock)
  4. RAM - 4 GB Patriot Extreme Performance DDR2-800 5-5-5-15 2T
  5. Graphics card - ASUS Nvidia 8800GTS @ settings inventory 320Mo
  6. Sound card - card of ASUS Xonar D2X PCI-E
  7. Card TV Tuner - Hauppauge PCI-E WIN - TV Nova S more DVB - S directly connected to the flat outer of satellite, with remote control IR IRBlaster
  8. Player - optics Sony/NEC Optiarc DVD - RW Labelflash
  9. HARD drive 1 - (Startup disk) Samsung Spinpoint 160 GB SATA II
  10. HARD drive 2 - (Only for TV recordings) Hitachi 160 GB SATA II
  11. HARD drive 3 - (Storage media) Maxtor 1 TB SATA II
  12. Netwrok adapter- EDIMAX PCI 54 g Wireless Adapter - uses a RALINK driver
  13. Keyboard1 - Logitech Dinovo Mini Bluetooth wireless keyboard
  14. Keyboard & mouse 2 - Logitech MX3200 wireless mouse/keyboard combo
  15. Speakers - Logitech Z5500 5.1 Digital Surround Sound via Toslink optical cable connected to the ASUS Xonar Sound Card S/PDIF optical

  All the material above has had pilots upated since the sites of respective manufacturers, including BIOS of motherboard, chipset, graphics card, network card, sound card, card TV, keyboard (Logitech Setpoint) etc... etc...

  Initial added after Clean install software:

  1. Internet Security - Comodo Firewall v.3.13.126709.581 (updated daily since installed)
  2. Antivirus - Alwil Avast Professional 4.8 v (update daily & daily analysis of all local drives)
  3. Browsers: Firefox v. 3.5, Google Chrome
  4. MCEBuddy v.1.1 - for automated video Conversion of MCE .wtv smaller file size .avi TV recordings

  All of the above software has been installed by using the latest available versions downloaded from the manufactuer sites, which claim to support Windows 7 and all have been updated regularly since its installation.

  I have tried many of the suggestions I've seen posted to try to solve this problem, including:

  1. Uninstalling and reinstalling Media Center and WMP
  2. Disabling subtitles in Media Center
  3. Disable unused mobo onboard devices in the BIOS
  4. Update BIOS
  5. Updated all drivers
  6. Disabling Control Panel Nvidia PhysX
  7. Disabling the Enhanced Sound features for reading devices
  8. Run CCRegistry cleaner
  9. Run many Virus scans nomral mode and safe - no problems found
  10. Don't run the Checkdisk on all HARD drives - no problems found
  11. Run the SeaTools Diagnostic tools for HARD drives - all disks HARD discover OK
  12. Tried playing files AVI of HDD separated to avoid a HARD drive problem - same problem occurs on all readers
  13. I tried change graphics card for an ATI HD4850 with the latest ATI drivers - same problem.
  14. Tried to change the audio output S/PDIF instead of Xonar Soundcard onboard - same problem occurs
  15. Tried the Windows 7 repair facility - problem persists.
  16. Tried to uninstall all updates of Windows -same problem
  17. I tried the system restore to before the occurrence of the problem started - no help
  18. tried to re-downlaoding all hardware drivers updated and re - install in the case of a corrupt driver download - no chance even problem

  Essentially none of the abvoe helped to solve this problem, and it becomes really frustrating to have to restart the PC again and again trying to watch a recorded video file or DVD.

  After remove all the above I can only assume that it is a problem with Windows 7, needing a fix of the millisecond.  At least I think that I've exhausted everything I can try... ???

  With what is my HTPC, if I can't perform reliably, I have to reinstall Vista, Vista was not the best OS, but at least it was reliable for me in terms of my HTPC.

  I was really eager to get Windows 7, I used the RTM version on my netbook for some time before I made the decision to purchase the full retail version for my HTPC, and never had any of these problems with my installation of netbook that I used for playback of media files from an external USB HDD.  So I'm really disappointed to have these problems after doing all that I could to make sure that Windows 7 would work OK.

  If anyone can give me any suggestions of what I can try, anythign I can too watching, or if someone has hada similar problem and found a solution for him... Please, please, post more details, because I am really at my wits end now and have to resort to watch the recordings on a 10.2 "screen of my netbook with some speakers of the small laptop usb, after spending so much money on my system and surround sound Setup HTPC, its devastating to think that I'll have to go back to Vista...

  Absoultely ANY suggestions would be appreciated...

  Thanks in advance for any help and once again, I'm sorry for the length of the post, if there is more information needed I've not provided above, please let me know and I will try to publish as soon as POSSIBLE...

  After the forum of scouring and reding of countless discussions, it seems, there is some sort of problem with Media Network Sharing tha could be the cause of this problem, as many people have reported that disabling wmpnetwk.exe in the Services.msc solves the problem.

  It's not an ideal solution for me, as I have a HTPC in the room that I play media from the main HTPC downstairs and all the hype MS seemed to suggest that Win 7 is it is much easier to achieve, and has been one of the main points of sale used in one of their commercials for the operating system.

  This my MS you need to pay attention to this problem and work towards a solution and allow users to know when the solution has been provided, probably have a service that must be disabled to let the operating system work reliably is quite counterproductive.

  Nobody seems to answer my post above with other suggestions and wmpnetwork.exe disable workaround was published last November, all the while still there is no permanent solution...?

  EDIT: Just to confirm this wmnetwork.exe Netwrok disabling media sharing in the services, as well as disabling the media streaming in the Netwrok Sharing Center > advanced sharing Options, solved the constant crashes for me.

  So all the MS speak of 3rd party drivers for the cards video and other material or material defects are to blame, it's total BS, the only problem is to do with Windows and Windows Media Sharing, lets hope, they decide to do something to fight it... !!

• Windows Media Center crashes when I try to the configuration of the internet connection TEST.

  Hi, I had a problem with my wmc which is not up-to-date guides. It was running great!  I turned it off of multimedia features to get a clean reinstall and now it crashes all the time.  I tried everything in the forums and 8 hours later, I still have accidents.  I don't know what to do anymore.  Can someone please help me get my media center works again without crashing?

  I am Windows 7 home Prem 64 bit slot

  Here are the accident report:

  Description:
  Stopped working

  Signature of the problem:
  Problem event name: CLR20r3
  Signature of the problem 01: ehshell.exe
  Signature of the problem 02: 6.1.7600.16385
  Signature of the problem 03: 4a5bd053
  Signature of the problem 04: System
  Signature of the problem 05: 2.0.0.0
  Signature of the 06:53 problem has 12529
  Signature of the 07: 1B 38 problem
  Signature of the 08:72 problem
  Signature of the problem 09: System.UriFormatException
  OS version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID: 1033

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  I was also facing the origin with a message 'no internet connection' on the media center.

  help please.

  Thank you guys.

  OK, so I fixed it!

  Please people check your PROXY server on your machine settings.

  MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE

  PROXY SERVER

  USE A PROXY SERVER FOR YOUR LAN
  (NO VERIFICATION) If there is a check, remove it!  Reboot the machine and you're ready to go.

  I hope this helps!