I demand that Trent Piepho may or may not have written... > On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: [snip] >> The average user doesn't care about "dB" or "BER" or whatever. He wants to >> know whether the signal is "strong" and "good". At least that's what the >> STBs I've seen show. > This hasn't been my experience. All my STBs have reported SNR in dB on > their diagnostic page. I've yet to see one which does that - IME, they report signal strength as a percentage, though my Pace DVB-T STB also reports BER (its display uses the words "bit error rate") and uncorrected errors per second. [snip] > Suppose my driver says signal level is 0xb48c, is that good? Probably. I'd assume that 0xFFFF indicates a very strong signal, and 0xb48c is "reasonably strong" (assuming a linear mapping to what my STB reports). [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 => avoid boiling weather. TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST*. Expect a letter from a friend who will ask a favour of you. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
