[vdr] Re: Still distortions on ZDF

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

"Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:38:05PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > I'm still observing occasional distortions on the live signal
> > of the ZDF (ZDF:11954:h:0:27500:110:120:130:0:28006).
> > A few days ago I thought this could be because of heavy rain fall,
> > but right now it is happening again, and there is not a single drop of
> > rain falling right now (back then when it rained heavily the distortions
> > were a lot harder, though, so there might be something wrong with signal
> > strength).
> >
> > I have even realigned my dish to maximum signal strength, so I can
> > rule out a misaligned dish. The funny thing is that other channels
> > like RTL or Sat.1 work flawlessly. Only the ZDF has these distortions.
> > It is apparently also independent of the individual DVB card, since it
> > happens on my primary card as well as on others (i.e. when recording).
> >
> > Does anybody else see any distortions on the ZDF?
> 
> Yep, it seems to be the channel its self: its only the ZDF.
> No other channels shows that picture distortions.

I think I remember similar problems with earlier driver versions,
where only particular channels had problems. IIRC it had to do with the
amount of memory used for MPEG decoding in the driver/firmware.
Could it be that we are facing the same kind of problem again?

Klaus
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