--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Marco Skambraks marco@ammec.de An: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Betreff: Re: [vdr] UPC vienna - several dropouts Datum: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 17:52:44 +0100 (CET)
hi, On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Gerhard Steiner wrote:
Hello Marco,
Some time ago I had to changed to kernel 2.6.x with the new driver,
since
then my digital VDR is unuseable because of dropouts. So I bought a PVR150 and everything is fine now.
I - personally - believe, that there is a software problem within the
new
driver, since with the drivers for 2.4.x it work perfectly.
do you really think it's a driver problem? or did UPC change anything in the cable-net?
I don't know exactly. Maybe not only a driver problem. But for sure it a mixture of this and of UPC. QAM256 is really very difficult to handle. You need good cables, a excelent signal quality. If you have this, it is maybe not a big problem. But if you don't have it, the driver is not able to help.
Some time ago I tried to boot an old linux version (with kernel 2.4.x) and the picture was really good again. Back on my machine the picture is unuseable. So I believe it is a driver problem at least. But maybe you have the time and knowledge to solve this?
Unfortunately I am not able to find this problem and I was not able to
find
someone, who could solve this (or help me).
I know that UPC does not transfer EPG and I also know that they do something with mac-addresses
UPC is transfering EPG, but noone found it till now. EPG via internet is much easier to handle.
so, it looks like that nobody in vienna can use a harddisc-recorder at all only the UPC motorola box is able to receive the signal correctly
Just use a PVR-System. It's really fine :-)
UPC is a strange company :-(
That's really true and very bad. :-(
marco
Best regards Gerhard