On Thursday 14 August 2003 9:03 am, you wrote: Hi Ed :)
> Can someone please confirm that these ber numbers are way too high for > decent reception. I'm afraid not - I have an old Nova-T (grundig 29504) and can successfully get a clean picture with a ber as high as 10000 ... once you get to 15000 or so, the Uncorrectable Errors (unc's) start to creep in, as shown by MPEG artefacts on-screen and audio squeaks and pops.. I live about 25 miles from the transmitter (Winter Hill in the northwest), and am using a cheap, half-broken 7-element antenna, but inside and sitting on top of the monitor :) I'm amazed I get any signal at all, to be honest. If I position the aerial carefully, I can get the BER on the BBC ONE mux down to about 100... > However, there is one slight gremlin here, BBC ONE which has the > lower error rate won't play at all nicely through mplayer, Strange, the main BBC mux is the only one I can get with any reliability simply due to signal strengths... > however, ITV 1 > which has substantially higher error rates plays "OK". (OK means that the > picture and sound both look fine, but to my ear there are slight hiccups in > the sound which might be because of unfixed errors in the audio stream?) A pity, since there's nothing on ITV1 you'd ever want to see :) > So this one plays really poorly > > mm dvbstream # tzap -r "BBC ONE" My own hunch is the driver for the TDA frontend doesn't report the ber/unc properly... but I suppose if your standalone decoder works fine.... :/ > I think that there are other problems here though, because my full featured > card has ber numbers of "0" (or occasionally "1") <nod> That's what I'd expect living near the mighty Crystal Palace with a rooftop aerial... > Please, any thoughts really appreciated! I think you're just jinxed :) Remind me never to buy any 2nd hand electronics gear from you ;))) Cheers, Gavin. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
