On Sunday 25 May 2008 10:00:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anybody got reasonable results with the ad-detection ?
[snip] > You are correct in thinking it is your antenna, most of the time it > is; together with all the bits-n-pieces. > > Of course you will have to have reasonably good coax and depending > where you live (or trying to DTV record), that you may be best getting > someone to check your signal strength at the your antenna and at the > end-points ti.e.: where cable connects to your DVB card/TV. > > Why? It is my experience that most people have old really crappy coax, > and highly suspect splitters/baluns/connections + you name it. You > can do this yourself if your got a laptop (running either dvb-scan or > scan-dvb. It will tell you the signal strengths for each channel), > with a USB DVB device and you can simply get to the antenna base point. [snip] Graham thanks for lots of input. What I was trying to establish was two stuff: I have a pair of bunny-ears above my table. The signal is crappy. SD and HD are perfect except for a stutter say once per hour. So ... 1) Does anybody get reasonable ad detection ? 2) If they do (and I don't) then it's probably the antenna I've used lots of backends from repos and from building from 0.14 to 0.21-fixes CPUs from Celeron 1700 thru the dual core AMDs. Everything-else (but antenna) is eliminated. Even recorded simultainously on differant TV cards and compared recordings. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
