On Saturday 29 May 2010 14:45:40 Konstantin Dimitrov wrote: > at least in driver for the frontend found on TBS 6980 Dual DVB-S2 card > i added options "esno" and "dbm" respectively for reporting SNR > (actually C/N) in EsNo dB and signal strength in dBm, which is at > least real statistics about the signal and not like almost meaningless > percents. so, that's one way to go. some DVB-S/S2 demodulators use > EsNo dB and other EbNo dB and so maybe step toward some > standardization is routines for conversion between those two. also, > maybe there will be common agreement how to convert signal strength in > dBm to percents and SNR (C/N) in EsNo or EbNo dB to percents. i > believe that will guarantee more standard way to give information > about the signal, but it's just my opinion. > > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:09 AM, VDR User <user.vdr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A lot of people were anticipating this happening but it seems to have > > stalled out. Does anyone know what the intentions are? Many users > > were also hoping to _finally_ get a good signal meter for linux as > > well. If anyone has any info, please share! > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html i think someone is too concerned about being precisely accurate. So much so that no-one can see the woods for the trees any more. Its not important to me that accuracy is spot on. I only want to know that when tuning the dish I'm getting \better or worse. A mate has fixed this locally. So will we get a plethora of patches all trying to do the same thing. Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
