Manu Abraham wrote: > John Goacher wrote: >> Tony Grant wrote: >> >>> Le vendredi 14 décembre 2007 à 13:49 +0000, John Goacher a écrit : >>> >>>> Your success with Das Erste prompted me to >>>> temporarily re-align my dish (Sky minidish) to point to 19.2E to see if >>>> I could duplicate your results. The good news is that I get a >>>> perfect recording from Das Erste. I recorded about 15 minutes of data, >>>> then >>>> ran it through TSReader Lite to check for errors. There were absolutely >>>> no >>>> errors of any kind indicated ! I double checked this by viewing the >>>> recording in DVBViewer Pro under XP. >>>> >>>> This is interesting because the signal strength from Das Erste (as >>>> displayed >>>> by DVBViewer Pro under Windows XP) is much lower than I'm getting from >>>> Astra >>>> 28.2E (I'm based in the London area). Das Erste displays a signal >>>> strength >>>> reading >>>> of 41%, whereas the BBC channels at 28.2E (on which I'me seeing high >>>> error >>>> rates) >>>> show signal strengths of around 65%. I think this probably rules out >>>> signal >>>> quality as >>>> the issue, and suggests the problem is somehow related to the channel >>>> parameters. >>> I have issues with 28.2E compared to 19.2E and always have had. 19.2 >>> just works whereas 28.2 is much more finicky. Last week a big storm >>> cloud over the Pyreneans blocked all signal for about 10 minutes - BBC2 >>> just stopped and it is one of the better signals. During thunder storms >>> on 19.2 you have some artifacts but I have never lost the carrier. >>> >> >> Hi Tony, >> >> I take your point, but the fact that I can receive the 28.2E channels >> perfectly with the PCTV under Windows XP, but not under linux (with the >> same >> hardware and feed), strongly suggests the problem is not signal quality. >> Similarly, the fact that I can receive Das Erste perfectly under linux, >> despite the signal from 19.2E being much weaker at my location, also >> suggests this. >> > > When i looked at the pctv452 driver it was based on a older stb0899 driver > snapshot. > It still is based on the same ? There were many issues fixed in newer > changesets, so > i don't know whether the issue that you see is really a stb0899 driver > issue which has > been fixed already or maybe that the pctv device requires some specific > settings ? I > don't know.. I don't have much info on this device. > > Regards, > Manu > Hi Manu, I was using an older snapshot, but I've now rebuilt and re-installed the driver following the instructions in the wiki entry at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Pinnacle_PCTV_Sat_HDTV_Pro_USB_%28452e%29 I'm using what I believe to be the latest snapshot of STB0899 which is revision 5882 at http://linuxtv.org/hg/~manu/stb0899/rev/5b19ac1cddb5 Unfortunately, I still get the packet loss problem with this snapshot. regards, John _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
