Turning Antivirus programs off (disabling) is sometimes not enough. It may require an uninstall if that is the problem.
Sorry Jim - but I won't be uninstalling my AV since we do not know where the problem lies. A problem - which as of this moment - points directly to the MC exe. (and my CPU - in some weird way)
It's clear that even with AV full on - v19 works fine when using only 2 concurrent encodes. Any more than that (4) and the v19 exe (
Your executable) goes crazy and chews up all available CPU on my system.
I cannot see how this very clear indicator via Task Manager - has the least bit to do with my AV - which BTW - I am also watching in real time (while MC is converting and encoding) and it could care less about Media Center or the actual MC exe file. It's not scanning any of your files while this excessive CPU is happening.
I have been using this specific version (4.2.71.2) of ESET for over three and half years now - and I have never asked the AV to exclude MC over 5 past versions - can't see why it would suddenly be an issue now. Plus V18 works perfectly with the AV full on.
Update: I installed v19 (45) onto a complete different machine with a completely different AV (MSE) - featuring a much more powerful CPU i7 3770 and did the same test - this time the CPU average was around 60% but I could hear the CPU fans kick into very high gear (first time I have ever heard the fans ever come on like this) when I started the conversion.
Using 4 concurrent encodes - this machine was able to complete the job in about a minute.
Conversely - with v18 (212) on the same machine - converting the same files - used 7% of the CPU (average) and completed in 32 seconds - with 4 concurrent encodes. Nice.
VP