Steve Brown writes: > > Although the tuner reports a perfect signal, continuity count errors > occur on the filtered pids. I doubt that the transmitter is actually > dropping packets. The only other explanations seem to be either > erroneous reporting from the tuner or the dvr read code dropping packets. > > I'm pretty sure that the tuner is correctly reporting. I experimented > by misaligning the antenna and noticing that the BER goes up first and > the uncorr block count later. When the antenna is repositioned, both > values go back to zero. > > The problem is also intermittent. Sometimes there are no cc errors and > sometimes they return. In both cases, the tuner reports a perfect > signal. Also, they are "real errors" as I can see pixelation in the > decoded output when there are cc errors and none when the cc errors go > away. The cvs and 0.9.4 drivers behave the same. Finally, it seems > independent of transponder. > > I distilled this down to a 12 line loop in a test program that audits > the continuity count of selected pids. No errors are reported from the > dvr read. > > Has anybody seen this?
Not that I know of. Could you describe exactly what you do and what kind of system you have. Also under what circumstances and how often the errors occur. Marcus -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
