HDX Playing FLAC from Server PC glitching because of McAfee

Try replacing McAfee. Microsoft Security Essentials in free and much less of an overhead and intrustion than McAfee.
John

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Originally posted by itnerd:
My HDX (latest upgrade installed) will play FLAC & MP3 perfectly from the hard drive of my Home PC via wired ethernet. As soon as I installed McAfee Total Protection 2010 the MP3 was still perfect but the FLAC glitches (backspaces a few seconds every 5 secs or so).

PC is running Windows 7 64 bit.

Who is to blame?

Sounds like McAfee is introducing so much delay it becomes noticable in replay of higher bandwidth audio.

Beside choosing another Virusscan / TotalProtection Software (I use Eset and can recommend it) you could also check if it is possible to turn of virusscan / real-time protection when files are being read. This will introduce a small reduction in security, but under the assumption that all files are checked when written there shouldn't be any nasty surprises when the same files are read.

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aleg

You can exclude directories from scanning with McAfee.

get rid of macafee and grab malwarebytes (the pay version) or Zonealarm. Both are get, low resource programs. They will not get in the way.

mcafee is like the Mac of security software. Bloated.

...somewhat circumspect remark, as I have never installed an anti-virus or malware application on a Mac in the fifteen years I've used 'em.

ZoneAlarm (get the Pro version if you can) is great on a PC, though.

Dave,

I was only saying that MacAfee is like iTunes in that it is a huge program that is resource intensive.

Using it on a low spec PC can create issues such as the OP reported.

ITNERD here - I've had 3 full support sessions with McAfee - all fob-offs. So I tried putting the .FLAC on my laptop on the same network and it all worked perfectly. The laptop also has McAfee but the "Internet Security Suite" not the "Total Protection Suite". I've substituted the versions on the main server & am now a happy nerd.

PS. it also messed up .WAV and no doubt all the other HDX formats of which I have none to try.