On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 17:48 +0100, Robert wrote: > Do you by any change have an NVIDIA graphics card? > I do indeed. Asus Pundit P1 with integrated Nvidia graphics. > So it seems that somehow the NVIDIA graphics drivers were causing > interferrence with the DVB-S capture card. > > A few things you can try to see if the problem is the same : > > 1) Start a recording to disk, wait for 10 seconds, then start playing > back that file. See if the first 10 seconds of the recording are > artifact free, and then artifacts start after 10 seconds have passed > (when you started using the graphics) > > 2) Switch to the nv driver (if you using nvidia) and see if the problem > goes away. > > 3) Start a recording to disk, and play back an entirely different > recording - see if you get artifacts. > > 4) Check the quality output of szap (or whatever) and see if there is an > increased BER, or drop off in signal quality while playing back video. > > Thanks for the tips. I'll try this. You wouldn't by any chance know of any good devices to amplify / clean DVB signal befor it's fed into the DVB-card ? I tried with an ordinary antenna amplifier , but that even made my settopbox , which normally works fine, go bananas too . - Jarle _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb