On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote:
> What's wrong aside from the human readable output mode of femon being
> broken?  Do you have a picture or not?
>
> You have a lock.
> You have a pretty high SNR value (my ATSC reception always has a value
> of less than 0x100).
> You have 0 block errors and uncorrectable errors.
>
> Regards,
> Andy

Andy,

My guess is that this is actually the s5h1409 being dumb in a couple of ways:

It puts the same SNR value into both the strength and signal fields.

Most demods treat the signal field as a scaled value from 0-65535
where 65535=100%.  So femon probably treats 0x012c as 300/65535 which
as a percentage is rounded to "0%".

So while part of this is femon making some assumptions about how the
values are rendered, much of the problem continues to be the lack of
uniformity for the strength/snr fields in the DVB interface, and the
s5h1409 just happens to do it in an unpopular way.

Nick:  Just use the non-human readable values.  This problem isn't
going to be fixed anytime in the near future given the inability of
the LinuxTV community to agree on a format for providing SNR/signal
info across all demod drivers (I've been pushing for that for *years*
now).

Devin

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

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