VDR without cVideorepacker seems to me more tollerant to such distortions in signal quality. For unknown reasons my budget card (satelco standard pci, secondary card) sometimes produces artefacts, even when the signalquality is OK (going to test a skystar2 soon, ordered at www.reichelt.de).

Is anyone else experiencing such a behaviour of a secondary budget card? A FF Card on the same LNB-cable won't produce block-artefacts.

The behaviour started some time ago, it worked flawlessly at first, but at some update (Driver, VDR?) it began, can't remember when. The behaviour isn't reproducable, it works fine for days, then it's there again.

Ciao, Dominique