Hello, i hope it's okay to ask here. I'm wondering how the SNR is calculated, and how someone can calculate the "real" snr in db. This caused me a lot of nerves and i don't seem to be able to calculate the correct snr. For that some examples. I'm using DVB-T and a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1200 (Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 02)) dvbsnoop reports cycle: 1 d_time: 0.001 s Sig: 63993 SNR: 185 BER: 9999839 UBLK: 11 Stat: 0x00 [] cycle: 2 d_time: 0.003 s Sig: 64507 SNR: 185 BER: 9999839 UBLK: 18 Stat: 0x00 [] cycle: 3 d_time: 0.003 s Sig: 63993 SNR: 168 BER: 9999839 UBLK: 28 Stat: 0x00 [] WITHOUT a antenna connected, WITHOUT a sender tuned. I guess it's quite unlikely that i have 185 db snr, without anything connected nor tuned. Alright. With a 42 db amplified antenna connected, i get SNRs between 143 and 178 (calculated with bash and tzap.. e.g.: ((snr_in_db=16#$snr_from_tzap)) -> ((var=16#0092)) echo $var 146 (should be db) Doing so, reports also db values of 215 which should be quite unlikely even when using cable (correct me if i'm wrong). So let's assume that the value which is reported needs to be subtracted from the above value. Then we would have: 215 - 185 = 30 db (sounds resonable) 146 - 185 = -39 db (errm... ok.. so this can't be) AAaaaanother try, some guy reported to calculate the snr (reported snr = 0f1f1 (though seems to be for dvb-s, and i'm dealing with dvb-t) like this: 0xf1 / 8 = 30.125 db (sounds reasonable) But why did he removed the last two parts? (0xf1 = 0f1f1 ???) ok.. so let's try agaaaaain: 0092 .. => 146. 146 / 8 = 18. So 18 db, sounds reasonable, though remember dvbsnoop reports 185 snr without anything connected, if i take this as "noise" and want to remove it to get the real value i'd have: 185 = 23 and 18 db - 23 db = -5 db. So.. errm. WTF? Who can enlighten me? -- 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
