On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 00:05 -0400, Byron Poland wrote: > I've been playing around with getting my cable companies (Comcast, New > Castle Co. Delaware) QAM "free to air" broadcasts working with my > HD3000 card using the dvb drivers. I actuall am able to tune all the > local HD channels, INHD 1&2 and a lot of simulcast digital std > content. The problem is that most of it comes out like crap. lots of > continuity errors, audio drop outs, and just lots of problem. Pretty > much non watchable. In looking for channels, I did the tedious > searching with dvbstream, and spliting up the stream with dtvstream > (-tsprog in mplayer was unreliable). In doing this I recorded 15-180 > second chunks and looked at them. Things were decent at times, but > still tons of continuity errors. > > In recent years I've totally replace the wiring in my house with RG6 > Quad Shieled cable, and recently replaced my spliters. Currently we > subscribe to only regular analog cable, and have an onsite filter (on > the pole) that gives up HBO (the good old days of onsite content > scrambling). > > What I'm getting at is what are the chances of getting good quality > out of QAM (last thing I can thing to do is replace the wire from the > house to the pole with RG6 QS). Or will subing to digital cable and > getting a firewire enabled cable box give me better / more reliable > quality.
My local cable company only offers one(!) HD unencrypted QAM channel. (It's an NBC affiliate.) I have nearly maxed out signal strength using my HD3000 with DVB drivers and no continuity errors that I can recall. I can't say the same for my OTA 8VSB channels I tune with the Air2PC card however. I wonder, what signal strength does azap or the mythbackend.log report? -- Aran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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