[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause

[John Finlay]

Yan Seiner wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Saturday 07 February 2009 13:57:46 Jay Summet wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> However, as your signal strength is less than 100, I don't think your
>>> signal is so strong as to be overwhelming the tuners. My suggestion: If
>>> your SNR is lower than 80, try repositioning one of the antennas
>>> radically (30-90 degrees) to see if that changes anything for your
>>> "problem" station.
>>>     
>>
>> Good suggestion. he may be getting multipath problems, a situation 
>> where you have lots of RF signal, but it's not usable due to it's 
>> coming from many different directions with differing time delays.
>>
>>   
> That's what I'm afraid of... I wonder if the HDHR is more sensitive to 
> multipath.  I have 2 highly directional antennas set at 90 degrees to 
> each other.  That means that one should get strong signal on that 
> channel and the other should get a weak signal or none at all.
>
> Instead, I get 96% and 93%.
>
> Channel 17: no problem.
>
> selene:/usr/src/hdhomerun# hdhomerun_config 1016467C set 
> /tuner0/channel 8vsb:17
> selene:/usr/src/hdhomerun# hdhomerun_config FFFFFFFF get /tuner0/status
> ch=8vsb:17 lock=8vsb ss=54 snq=35 seq=0 bps=19395584 pps=0
>
> Channel 39: problem.
>
> selene:/usr/src/hdhomerun# hdhomerun_config 1016467C set 
> /tuner0/channel 8vsb:29
> selene:/usr/src/hdhomerun# hdhomerun_config FFFFFFFF get /tuner0/status
> ch=8vsb:29 lock=8vsb ss=93 snq=66 seq=100 bps=0 pps=0
>
You sstate the problem channel is 39 but the status shows 29. Is the 39 
a typo?

John