Hi, I just got a Fusion HDTV5 Gold. I am attempting to use it to tune US Cable (QAM 256). It somewhat works. I have some feedback about cable if anybody is interested. I'm using 2.6.13 release, and the dvb/video4linux drivers as outlined in the "how to build from CVS" link posted in an earlier Fusion HDTV5 thread. I'm watching captured streams with mplayer. There seem to be 2 classes of channels I can get. One class seems to work, and the other has too much noise / uncorrectible errors to watch (though it works fine on my older LG-based HDTV's integrated tuner). When I tune a working channel like our PBS affiliate, which has 4 "SD" and 1 "HD" subchannels, and I capture a .ts file with test_dvr, the resulting stream is nearly unwatchable if I don't filter pids (eg, I use 0x2000). If I filter just the pids I want, then the resulting stream is nearly perfect. Here is azap & dvbtraffic output from a good channel (Cable 90): status 1f | signal 0000 | snr fcae | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr fc90 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr fc9e | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr fc7e | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK -PID--FREQ-----BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH- 0000 10 p/s 1 kb/s 16 kbit 0020 16 p/s 2 kb/s 25 kbit 0021 4650 p/s 853 kb/s 6993 kbit 0022 130 p/s 23 kb/s 196 kbit 0023 130 p/s 23 kb/s 196 kbit 0024 16 p/s 2 kb/s 25 kbit 0025 9975 p/s 1831 kb/s 15002 kbit 0026 262 p/s 48 kb/s 394 kbit 0030 16 p/s 2 kb/s 25 kbit 0031 993 p/s 182 kb/s 1493 kbit 0034 130 p/s 23 kb/s 196 kbit 0035 87 p/s 15 kb/s 132 kbit 0040 16 p/s 2 kb/s 25 kbit 0041 1199 p/s 220 kb/s 1804 kbit 0044 130 p/s 23 kb/s 196 kbit 0045 68 p/s 12 kb/s 103 kbit 0050 33 p/s 6 kb/s 50 kbit 0051 3104 p/s 569 kb/s 4669 kbit 0054 131 p/s 24 kb/s 198 kbit 0055 86 p/s 15 kb/s 130 kbit 00a0 16 p/s 2 kb/s 25 kbit 00a4 69 p/s 12 kb/s 105 kbit 00f0 65 p/s 11 kb/s 99 kbit 00f1 665 p/s 122 kb/s 1000 kbit 00f2 730 p/s 134 kb/s 1098 kbit 00f4 29 p/s 5 kb/s 44 kbit 1ffb 9 p/s 1 kb/s 14 kbit 1fff 3043 p/s 558 kb/s 4577 kbit 2000 25830 p/s 4742 kb/s 38848 kbit When I tune to our CBS affiliate (1 HD, and 3 SD channels), I get nothing but noise when I play back the full stream, and I can't find the correct pids to filter to try filter just one channel. Here is azap output from a bad channel (C85): status 1f | signal 0000 | snr fa03 | ber 00000000 | unc 00005e45 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr fa0b | ber 00000000 | unc 00005ed0 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr fa00 | ber 00000000 | unc 00005ea4 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 0000 | snr fa1c | ber 00000000 | unc 00005f60 | FE_HAS_LOCK I won't waste space with dvbtraffic because it is huge.., but it sums to around 25830 p/s, and there are tons of pids like this: 0006 0 p/s 0 kb/s 1 kbit So .. my questions: 1) Is the the fact that I can get a watchable stream using pid filtering a sign that the Fusion5 doesn't have enough internal bandwidth the capture a full QAM256 stream? Or some other problem? 2) Is there any way to get the "bad" channels to behave? They work fine on my TV's integrated LG tuner, and even my old Air2PC can pull those "bad" channels in quite a bit better than the LG. (Though the LG wins hands down on the good channels). Thanks for your help, Drew
