On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Mac Michaels wrote: > My question/complaint level is exceeded. Time to do > something to reduce these questions. Lets hack this to so > it can be used. This proposal is a total hack to report > signal strength. > > If we have FE_LOCK return a signal strength of say 42 or 100 > or 0x7FFF or 0xFFFF (pick one) otherwise return 0. This This would be nice for application programmers. I don't want my programs to consider a channel tuned unless they can reasonably expect to receive valid data from it. If the signal strength is zero, then I don't expect to be able to receive valid data. This really happens with my or51132 based card with digital cable. Sometimes after tuning a new frequency, FE_LOCK is reported but signal strength starts at only about 1%, when it should be near 99%. I will not receive valid data when signal strength is so low. I have my code wait until signal strength rises before considering the channel fully tuned, and I have seen other code which does this too. This is useful to me (and others too it would seem) but will fail for a driver which always reports zero signal. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
