On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Dale Pontius <[email protected]> wrote:
> I downloaded at 7:23 in the morning, so clearly I was missing something.
> My kernel was a little down-level, so I just built the latest'n'greatest
> Gentoo kernel, grabbed a new snapshot from mercurial, and built.
>
> I now have locks on my ClearQAM channels.  I posted 2 examples of using
> azap, one clear, one encrypted before.  Here they are now...
> Clear -
> u...@localhost ~/computers/hdtv $ azap CH567-1
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> tuning to 567000000 Hz
> video pid 0x07c0, audio pid 0x07c1
> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 |
> status 1f | signal 0142 | snr 0142 | ber 00001be4 | unc 00001be4 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0145 | snr 0145 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0142 | snr 0142 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0145 | snr 0145 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0142 | snr 0142 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0145 | snr 0145 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0145 | snr 0145 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0145 | snr 0145 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0142 | snr 0145 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0145 | snr 0145 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0145 | snr 0145 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0142 | snr 0142 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0145 | snr 0145 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> ^C
> Encrypted -
> u...@localhost ~/computers/hdtv $ azap CH561-1
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> tuning to 561000000 Hz
> video pid 0x0000, audio pid 0x0f42
> status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 |
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00001a1d | unc 00001a1d | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 0146 | snr 0146 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK
> ^C
> The numbers aren't that different, but the big thing is that the clear channel
> doesn't have all of the dropouts it did before.  There seems to be some sort 
> of
> shelf, and with the old drivers I was spending enough time below that shelf to
> make it unworkable.  There is still one frequency with 2 channels that are too
> week, but I'm not sure what they are, from what I've been able to see of the
> content.  All of the other stuff that I've checked appears to be good.

Great.  That's pretty much what I thought was going on.  My first set
of patches boosted the signal quality by about 3 dB across the board,
but introduced the edge case that you ran into.  The last patch in the
series fixed that issue.

> Now to figure out how to integrate this stuff with Myth, including the fact
> that several channels can be gotten in HD, digital SD, or NTSC.  Then it'll be
> even more fun if/when I hook a cable box to the svideo input.  But that's a
> different list.

Yeah, those are challenges that many users encounter, regardless of
which card they are using.  Good luck!

Devin

-- 
Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
http://www.kernellabs.com

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