Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Hi again, > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Rogan Dawes wrote: >> I guess this is related to a weak/corrupted signal, although the ber >> showing up while running tzap seemed reasonable: > > A reasonable BER is 0 and (if the demod-driver is supporting) UNC should > be 0 as well. > > BER is the bit-error-rate, not the bitrate. > >> I guess I'll need to get a better DVB antenna. > > Try to open the window or to put the antenna outside, rotate the > antenna, check the cables and connector, while having femon running and > check which position is the best. > > Sometimes it helps, > Patrick. > Ok, so I tried unplugging and replugging the antenna, just to make sure that femon would pick up the crudest of changes, before I tried more refined ones. I got the following, but it also crashed my machine :-( rogan@athena:~$ tzap "eTV(ETV)" > /dev/null & [1] 5339 rogan@athena:~$ femon using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' FE: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T (TERRESTRIAL) status 00 | signal 8b8b | snr 3030 | ber 0001fffe | unc ffffffff | status 1f | signal 8989 | snr f6f6 | ber 0001a268 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8989 | snr 6565 | ber 0001fffe | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8989 | snr f6f6 | ber 0001b110 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8989 | snr ecec | ber 0001ac00 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8888 | snr f4f4 | ber 0001a84c | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 01 | signal 8989 | snr 6161 | ber 0001fffe | unc ffffffff | status 1f | signal 8888 | snr f2f2 | ber 0001b28c | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal 8989 | snr 2c2c | ber 0001fffe | unc ffffffff | status 1f | signal 8989 | snr f3f3 | ber 0001a590 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal 8787 | snr 6d6d | ber 0001fffe | unc ffffffff | status 1f | signal 8888 | snr f4f4 | ber 0001aeae | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 01 | signal 8989 | snr 8f8f | ber 0001fffe | unc ffffffff | status 1f | signal 8787 | snr f3f3 | ber 0001e982 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal 8d8d | snr 7171 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000001 | status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr f5f5 | ber 00014628 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8c8c | snr f8f8 | ber 00016fb0 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr f7f7 | ber 00013b8c | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8b8b | snr f7f7 | ber 000129d4 | unc 0000001e | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 8888 | snr f6f6 | ber 00017330 | unc ffffffff | FE_HAS_LOCK status 00 | signal 0000 | snr e0e0 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 3535 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 2c2c | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 3030 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal 0000 | snr e1e1 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal 0000 | snr ffff | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 3737 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 7d7d | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 | status 00 | signal 0000 | snr a9a9 | ber 0001fffe | unc 00000000 | This would seem to support the notion that I am not getting a good enough signal, right? Rogan _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
