[vdr] Re: [OT] stream distortions

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2003 15:18 schrieb Johannes Schoeller:
> > > > I have on several channels stream distortions. I have today
> > > > adjusted the dish and the distortions are a lot lesser now. I
> > > > have used a signal strength monitor and the dish is adjusted
> > > > now as good as it can be. However, i have on SAT1 and PRO7
> > > > sevral distortions. Is there a way to find out if it is the
> > > > cable or the LNB ? Or are there known driver problems that coud
> > > > cause this ? could the card be defect ? I haven't seen the
> > > > distortions with a skystar 2 as receiver and the fujitsu
> > > > siemens as display card. Or is the skystar2 just not that
> > > > sensitive ?
> > > >
> > > > Any advices are welcome
> > >
> > > I had also problems with distortions. Mainly on KiKa.
> > >
> > > Now with cooling my DVBs 1.3 everything looks fine.
> >
> > What have you used to cool the card ? If i install my second card
> > again i want to have cooling on the card, but I'm not sure what to
> > buy. I also thought about buying a switch to reduce the needed
> > voltage of the cards, but i guess a switch is to expensive and an
> > enermax PSU should suffice to give the needed power.
>
> take a look here and you will find a heatsink attached to the dvbs
> card. here it does help a lot.


Where should i look ? Hmm i got a multiswitch 5x4 with powersupply cheap 
now and a quattro-lnb so i guess the cards don't get that hot anymore 
anyway. Am I right ? Hope i get it running tomorrow. 

Steffen



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