In macOS Monterey tv app, home videos category crashing

I recently did a fresh install of macOS since after that update I was having trouble with coreaudiod really maxing out and cooking my Mac mini. But its when I noticed this trouble. Just found something else now since I went to my Apple TV and tried to view home videos there but wouldn't show my media. Then I saw in system preferences I didn't have media sharing checked but I can't even check it now for some reason. I clicked on the lock but won't let me check on media sharing so I guess I have to sort this out before I try anything else.

Thank you for your suggestion though, I will get to that once I sort out this problem. I can click on file sharing or other boxes but not media sharing, when I click on that it does nothing. I will get back to you once I fix this, I hope.

I am running as admin on this account. I restarted into safe mode though and tried it again and still the tv app crashes when I go to the home videos category. I did a first aid on the external HD I use for this media and the main ssd in the Mac and still does it.

When I booted into safe mode it showed that media sharing enabled though, not sure why it was all blacked out before and couldn't click on it. I tried playing on my Apple TV one of my home videos and played ok. Tried playing a purchased movie then told me I had to authenticate which I already did but did it again in the tv app and then the movie played. Since I worried maybe some authentication problem but that's ok now.

I run 4 user accounts on this Mac also but home videos are fine on those. These videos are just ones I filmed myself over the years and worked fine before I did a fresh install. Thank you for your suggestions though. My home videos isn't a big problem I guess since I can still play them on my Mac and Apple TV. Just don't know why when I go to that section in the tv app on my Mac the tv app crashes still.

Thank you once again for your suggestions. I rebooted and still the app crashed when I went to home videos. I just deleted my videos in there, all 15. Then going to home videos category is fine no crash. So don't know why it doesn't seem to like the videos I had there. I was going to import them again but found I deleted them from another drive when I did a fresh install so going to try to find them. I think I imported them from another drive or iCloud Drive even since I have them backed up there so maybe there was some permission problem. I will try to drag them to my desktop and import them from there once I find them.

I don't run any anti virus or anything but I do use ad guard. I actually have less installed now than I did before I did a fresh install since I still haven't installed too much. The install is pretty fresh still and wiped the drive. Downloaded 12.3 from apple and installed it from scratch from USB stick. So not sure why something would be messed up. I will try the app you suggested but just going to try to add my home videos back in another way to see if its something permission wise first then will get back to you.

I tried to run adguard to quit it but the app wasn't responding, so force quit it in activity monitor and removed the whole app and all folders from library. Restarted but same trouble with home videos. When I restart now though mds_stores really maxes out my CPU for quite a while each time. Something just doesn't seem right so I'm going to do a fresh install again. I know drastic but only did it a few days ago so not a big deal to do it again. Hopefully this time it will be without problems. Just having so odd issues and behaviours so feels like something messed up so going to start over.

I read adguard is from Russia/ukraine? a while back also but servers in Germany or something so maybe I will avoid the app for now since maybe due to the war there are issues going on.

I never use TM or anything on a fresh install but thank you. All done installing 12.3 macOS again, formatted or erased the SSD from the install USB drive first using disk utilities. Just been getting all apps and iCloud set up again. Just ran the tv app and imported my media. I can switch between the categories now quickly, movies, tv shows, home videos... no crashing.

Didn't use TM before on this previous fresh install also but I did it on that day apple had a ton of issues and outages. So maybe that messed something up. I picked a bad time them to do it but didn't know until after apple was having so many issues a few days ago.

I did install ad guard from the App Store and my account. Not sure why it was frozen up but will hold off on installing that app again. Glad all is working now and thank you again for all the time you shared today. I will mark this as solved now. Wishing you a happy weekend.