Brian wrote:
tony wrote:
Le vendredi 18 février 2005 à 18:05 +0100, Lucian Muresan a écrit :
I watched some German TV a few days ago while playing with config stuff. I can no longer get a lock on anything at 19.2E. I guess that it is just me but still... Can't understand what might have gone wrong
OK I have compiled and installed vdr 1.3.21 with vdr-xine 0.7.1 and streamdev + femon
I am pointed at RTL 12188 Mhz - I am losing the carrier from time to time and strength of signal and carrier are topping out at 65%.
Pointed at the satellite with my analog tuner the signal is just fine so this has something to do with the DVB drivers. I am using dvb-kernel drivers loaded by hand.
Cheers
Tony PS Klaus 1.3.21 is much better where it does work (BskyB) congratulations.
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Tony, I have a "test" VDR that is running with a Budget Nova-S, I have some BER and very low SNR and STR using Femon. My "Production" VDR with two FF cards has far better signals (according to Femon) and no BER at all. I moved one of the FF cards to this box to check that all is really OK, cabling etc. With the FF I then got no BER, and the kind of STR and SNR values I am used to. As it happens the test machine is about 2M cable away from my multiswitch, the production box is about 10M away. The test box is a Kernel 2.6 with the supplied DVB drivers, the production box is 2.4 with DVB drivers from the middle of last year.
For me the values shown by Femon are very driver dependent. Either that or my Budget card is broken, but running it under windows show normal signal values so I dont think so.
Cheers Brian
Haven't looked at BER values and such, but I can confirm that my single Budget Nova-S system is working ok when I boot the non-udev gentoo-2.6.9 with the kernel-supplied drivers and vdr-1.3.14, and not working at all, when booting the fresh installed udev-enbled Gentoo-2.6.10 with the kernel-supplied drivers, and I tried all this FU weekend vdr-1.3.21 back to -20, -18 and -14 on this partition, with no results. I also asked for help in just some pointers where to look for the error in http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2005-February/000171.html bot I only got a suggestion from Darren Salt in this other thread Tony initiated. what do you think I could try? disable udev and go back to devfs? Downgrade the kernel? Use DVB-CVS drivers? the funny thing is that dvbscan is properly scanning for services at any of the 4 LNBs I have after the 4/1 DiseqC switch, and even dvbtune reports something like this, how does it look like? Any other clues?
htpc root # dvbtune -f 11431000 -p H -s 13350 -v 410 -a 411 -D 0 Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S" tuning DVB-S to L-Band:8, Pol:H Srate=13350000, 22kHz=off polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: polling.... Getting frontend event FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC Bit error rate: 46848 Signal strength: 55675 SNR: 42942 FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC A/V/TT Filters set
Thanx in advance, Lucian