[mythtv-users] announce: script for locating QAM channels
Matt Mossholder
matt at mossholder.com
Sun Mar 5 13:27:40 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 22:10 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> You say you have "signal strength" problems. "Unwatchably choppy"
> might describe what I have seen when using the azap/mplayer method on
> the 288 streams that atscscan found on my system.
>
> But the BER shows zero on all of these channels, so I don't think it
> is a signal strength problem.
>
> What did your system show for BER ?? I wonder if you are having the
> same problem I am. If I just run azap it shows "FE has lock" on every
> line, but when I run mplayer to try and watch a stream I then see
> many lines without the lock message, although a lot of them have it
> also.
>
I've yet to have BER show as anything but 0 on my system, but if I have
a weak signal, I'll definitely get bad reception(artifacts, choppy
sound, etc.). A amplifier cleared all that right up.
--Matt
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