[linux-dvb] Re: Newbie questions

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Thursday 09 January 2003 3:10 am, Bruno Prior wrote:
> Mike Albon wrote:
> > You'll want to add '-qam 16 -cr 3_4' to both the dvbtune and dvbstream
> > lines.
>
> Doesn't help. dvbtune -i -f 505833 -qam 16 -cr 3_4 gives:
>
>          FEC_inner:  3
> Bit error rate: 65535

That doesn't look too happy :/

Could you do this:

$ dvbtune -f 505833 -qam 16 -cr 3_4 

to tune the card.. and then this:

$ dvbtune -f 505833 -qam 16 -cr 3_4 -m

for a few seconds to let us see the signal strengths, etc.

> I can get a lower Bit error rate (= 69) if I specify the frequency in Hz
> rather than kHz, but otherwise no change. Running scan_uk-t.sh gives the
> same sort of response for each of the frequencies (conveniently, Crystal
> Palace is my local transmitter). 

Oh I see :/ Are you definately using dvbtune and dvbstream downloaded from 
the CVS respository on sourceforge.net ?

gdh


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