<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Andrea Giuliano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarkiaponius@alice.it">sarkiaponius@alice.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm seeing horrible artifacts in my DVB-S recordings, even though MythTV says the signal strength is 99%</blockquote></div><br><div>Signal strength isn't what you think it is. Signal strength is the strength of the electrical signal between the card and the LNB, *not* an indication of quality of the signal. More helpful for this is SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) and Bit Error. Low SNR or high bit error means bad quality signal. Repoint the dish.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Robert</div>