Crash on video playback

[tomsalinsky]

Hi there

I'm a long-time Media Center user. I reluctantly switched over to Sky+ HD for my TV viewing recently and so my main interaction with Media Center 7 these days is watching video files. I have a large collection of AVI DivX and MKV H.264 files on a Buffalo NAS with a wired connection to my router, which has a wired connection to my HTPC.

About one time in three, when I select a video to watch, I get a black screen for a second followed by the error message: "Windows Media Center has stopped working". Often, it will restart itself after this and if I navigate again to my video and start to play it all is well. About one time in ten, when I go back to my videos, there are no folders there and if I try and add one, I am told something like "Windows Media Center has been installed without required components". This is cured only by restarting the system.

I recently revised my array of codec according to the advice here:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/t/78749.aspx

But this crashing problem predates my adopting this system and was not cured by it. I also uninstalled any non-essential software, especially add-ons to Media Center, but it made no difference.

Here's the AppCrash report from a recent incident

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Process File : ehshell.exe
Event Name : APPCRASH
Event Time : 10/03/2011 10:00:32
User Name : Tom Salinsky
Exception Code : 0xc0000005
Exception Offset : 0x1801bd60
Fault Module Name : unknown
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Process Path : C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe
Report File Size : 34,256
Report File Path : C:\Users\Tom Salinsky\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Repor tArchive\AppCrash_ehshell.exe_12ac8cb24d7a3a41211a 41c31bd85d792392cc89_16ad6d07\Report.wer
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EventType=APPCRASH
EventTime=129443955082178000
ReportType=2
Consent=1
UploadTime=129443955094058000
ReportIdentifier=9ea70290-4c8a-11e0-9561-002197ec1e6f
Response.BucketId=1928855012
Response.BucketTable=1
Response.type=4
Response.CabId=1129898913
Sig[0].Name=Application Name
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Sig[1].Name=Application Version
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Sig[2].Name=Application Timestamp
Sig[2].Value=4a5bccdc
Sig[3].Name=Fault Module Name
Sig[3].Value=unknown
Sig[4].Name=Fault Module Version
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Sig[5].Name=Fault Module Timestamp
Sig[5].Value=00000000
Sig[6].Name=Exception Code
Sig[6].Value=c0000005
Sig[7].Name=Exception Offset
Sig[7].Value=14dec260
DynamicSig[1].Name=OS Version
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DynamicSig[2].Name=Locale ID
DynamicSig[2].Value=2057
UI[2]=C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe
UI[3]=Windows Media Center has stopped working
UI[4]=Windows can check online for a solution to the problem and try to restart the program.
UI[5]=Check online for a solution and restart the program
UI[6]=Check online for a solution later and close the program
UI[7]=Close the program
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My system is a 2.70 gigahertz AMD Athlon 7750 Dual-Core with 2Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 4300 graphics card running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Any clues?

Cheers

Tom

[redwudz]

It looks to me like 'ehshell.exe' is the start of the problem when it fails. It's a vital part of Media Center, so I wouldn't remove it. After a quick search on the net for 'ehshell.exe',
I saw several posts relating to Media Center problems. Some seem to fault Net framework. You might try uninstalling it, then re-installing.

Media Center is so throughly integrated with the OS that it's really difficult to narrow down the cause of a problem.

And welcome to our forums.

[tomsalinsky]

Thanks for these thoughts. Ehshell.exe is the main Media Centre executable, so clearly it can't be uninstalled!

I tried a repair reinstall of .NET but the problem is still present.

Any other ideas?

Cheers

Tom