[mythtv-users] Re:TV-tuner signal interference problem

[Ray Olszewski]

At 11:42 AM 5/2/2003 -0600, Alex Petkov wrote:
> >Or maybe a jpeg of it would clarify things.
>
>Definitely, I will do that tonight and provide you with a link. I
>understand your explanation about the encoding process and the resulting
>file size increase, it makes perfect sense.
>
>As far as moving the cables, I had the whole computer at a different
>location in the apartment. The problem was still there. I will try moving
>the cables around as you suggested though. At this point I will try anything.
>
>It seems that the problem is not the tv-tuner card itself. Otherwise why
>would it work fine in one machine and not another? Can it be deffective,
>but not really?

I would be surprised if the problem were the card, given what you say. But 
I'm no electronics hardware expert, so sometimes I do get surprised.

One other thing I have noticed is that card noise is sensitive to the 
location of the card in the PC. I've settled on always putting a vidcap 
card in the pci slot located farthest from the CPU ... which in my 
experience is always the leftmost (viewed from the front) pci slot. I've 
seen a lot more noise (in the form of vertical bards, though, not diagonal 
lines) if I place the card near the CPU.