[linux-dvb] Re: fragments and framedrops with Hauppauge DVB-s

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Dominic Scharfe wrote:
> 
> status 1f | signal 5e5e | snr 1919 | ber 0003364e | unc ffffffff |
> FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal 6565 | snr 4040 | ber 0003364e | unc 00000027 |
> FE_HAS_LOCK
...
> i think the signal is ok, and mostly i hab FE_HAS_LOCK, but unc is
> really high, so i get many fragments and framedrops.
> 
> i have this problem also with other channels, mtv, has the best
> quality, at the most other channels i allways get unc ffffffff.

unc ffffffff means there were so many errors that the frontend's counter
overflowed. The signal is not OK.

> my distribution is debian woody, but i also had the same problem with mandrake 9.1.
> under windows it works, so it's not a hardware problem.

Well, if you run windows and Linux on the same box and there's really nothing
else changed, then the windows frontend driver seems to work better than the Linux
driver...


Johannes


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