HDHomeRun + ZoneAlarm = Pixelation

[gordo]

I was wondering if anyone has run into the same issue. I have a new HDHR that I only have connected to OTA HD for now. When I watch a channel using the VLC media player, or on the server using SageTV I get quite a lot of pixelation. I've noticed that the CPU is running really high and is the cause. vsmon.exe (which I believe is the real time virus scanner from the Zone Alarm Security Suite that I have installed) runs at about 20-25% when I watch anything on the server. Its not as bas when I watch it on the HD100, but there is still some pixelation. If I shut down Zone Alarm then it seems to be enough to bring the CPU down to a point where its not the bottleneck anymore when watching on either the server or the extender. I have a 6 year old Pentium 4 3.0GHz machine with 1.5GB RAM. So I know I'm not running top the of line hardware here. But I was wondering if anyone has had similar issues and knows of a way to set up an exception or something in ZoneAlarm so that it will not monitor any HDHR activity.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary.

[davephan]

The problem may be Zone Alarm itself. My brother-in-law was using Zone Alarm, and I found that was drastically slowing down his computer. You might consider removing Zone Alarm and use another product that does not drain the life out of a computer.

Dave

[TallMomof2]

HDHR support pages state that "older" versions of Zone Alarm can cause problems. I uninstalled up to date Zone Alarm and it fixed many of the lingering issues with my HDPVR. It didn't matter how I set the permissions in Zone Alarm the only thing that worked was to pitch it. The HDHR was just installed and it appears to be working fine.

[hemicuda]

Had to ditch ZA in favor of Comodo. There's a thread or a few posts on this somewhere. I haven't tried the new ZA that's on the laptop w/ the HDHR yet. Might do that next time I'm off the wireless.