[mythtv-users] Mobo recommendations
Yan Seiner
yan at seiner.com
Sun Apr 15 00:52:57 UTC 2007
Brian Wood napsal(a):
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>
>> At this point the problem seems to be periodic; recordings are fine
>> during the day but start to flake out in the evening. I suspect it
>> has
>> to do with signal strength so I ordered power injectors for my
>> antennas. We'll see how that goes.
>>
>>
>
> Although possible, it's not very likely that you are having enough
> signal level variation from night to day to cause things to "flake
> out". VHF/UHF signals do not depend on atmospheric layers that change
> with the sun. Amplifiers might cause more problems than they solve,
> by creating overloads and distortion products.
>
I suspect you may be right after all. No, I didn't get any new
hardware, but I did do some more reading, both on this list and on the
ivtv list.
I found this:
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/35222>
and unfortunately followed by this:
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/35381>
(Of course, my tuner is the one affected.... But I don't know enough to
tell if it breaks the driver, or just vbi...)
This affects everyone here using the ivtv 0.10 driver....
I've looked at the referenced patch, but frankly I have no clue what I
am looking for and how I would go about fixing my driver.
:-(
But at least it's saved me several hundred $$$ in unnecessary hardware.
--Yan
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