[linux-dvb] High number of uncorrected blocks with TT-C1500 andQAM256

[Kari Salmela]

>I have had similar experience like You with the same card (TT DVB
C1500) 
>regarding QAM64. I discovered that there had been a successful fix for 
>this done for QAM128 by changing the sweeprate, see 
>http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-February/008439.html
>So I made some test to find a working sweeprate for QAM64, see 
>http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-May/010141.html
>
>You might have to the same trip for QAM256?

>+       case QAM_256:
>+               delay = 200;
>+               sweeprate = YOUR_SWEEPRATE;
>+               break;
>
>         default:
>                 return -EINVAL;

I am experiencing same problem with QAM 256 .. Tried putting sweeprate =
250, but it seemed to make no visible difference. Is there any other way
to figure out what could be right than just trying different values and
recompiling?

--Kari


Petri Helin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not completely sure if this really is connected to the channel
> using QAM256, but that's what I suspect. I use Technotrend's TT-C1500
> budget card with appropriate common interface and Conax CAM. This
> combination works flawlessly on every channel which uses QAM64 or
> QAM128. Now the Finnish cable company, for which I am subscribed to,
> started broadcasting Canal+ Film HD some three months ago. This has
> worked otherwise quite well, but I get constant disturbances/artifacts
> in the picture. I used to think that it was just because the bit rate
> was five times the normal (17 Mbit/s compared to 3-4 Mbit/s).
> 
> But couple of days ago I noticed that this channel is actually the
> only one I am receiving that uses QAM256. Searching the Internet
> provided me with couple of forum threads/mailing list posts that
> suggested that certain DVB-C cards might have problems in receiving
> QAM256 modulated broadcast, but the hits were mainly on VDRportal and
> in German and I might have lost something in the translation... In
> addition to the picture getting garbled every now and then I can
> notice the problem also from the high values of UNC (uncorrected
> blocks) and BER (bit error rate). On Canal+ Film HD UNC is between 0
> and 20 and BER is about 250. On all other channels UNC is 0 and BER
> close to 0. STR ja SNR are the same on all channels, including Canal+
> Film HD.
> 
> Now what I am asking is for any experiences using DVB-C cards to
> receive QAM256 modulated broadcasts, no matter if HDTV or not.
> 
> -Petri
> 
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