[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote: > On Friday 11 June 2004 21:45, Torbjörn Jansson wrote: >> I have a technotrend dvb-c rev 2.1 card and I have had lots of >> problems. I don't know if the dvb-s cards is anything like mine or >> not. >> >> I had lots of problem with bad reception, after lots of trouble with >> it and trying to find the cause of the problems, I got a lot better >> reception after I switched the powersupply. >> So it seems atleast my dvb-c card was extra sensitive to bad power >> supply. > > So was the crappy power-supply the root of all your troubles, > or have you had > other problems as well? I guess the cards ain't some kind of > magic device > which can filter away noise from a crappy psu, hmm? Keep in > mind that it's > receiving fairly high frequencies, and noise is not it's best friend. >
The new powersupply fixed the bad reception. The only other problems I had was random lockups every few days when I used redhat9 with 2.4 kernel, but I belive they were caused by my analog bttv card. After I upgraded to fedora fc2 I haven't had any lockups, instead the bttv sometimes complains in the syslog and the picture goes all black, it only happends at the start of a recording that mythtv does. Some dvb channels do have uncorrectable errors which causes audio and video corruption, but it's a lot less with the new powerupply.
