> From my experience in the UK block error rates below 1000 are sufficient > to get a completely stable stream. Data might get lost somewhere else on > the board under linux? IRQ? VIA chipset? Something along those lines maybe? > > Although it works in Windows, I'd try this on another machine just > determine whether or not it's the driver / signal or something else on the > system.
OK, thanks. As you and Gavin pointed out, although these rates are much higher than with the full featured card, it appears to be more than low enough for good quality reception, so I guess I can at least rule that out for the time being. As for machine, this could well be an issue. It is an Asus P4P800 which has various shared interupts on the PCI sockets, and circumstantially there is a slight improvement in the audio on the really bad channels if I unplug all the USB gizmos (mouse and radio keyboard thingy). I will also try a different kernel and see if that helps... If I can get my other machine back into the right state I can also try against that as well I'm a bit sad if it does turn out to be a chipset issue though. I got this new motherboard with all intel stuff because I was fed up with the problems on my previous via based board.... PCI latencies are 64 at the moment on that card, I assume knocking this up to 128 wouldn't hurt either? Thanks for everyone's comments Ed W -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
