[mythtvnz] DVB-T HD picture quality with NOVA-T

[Steven Ellis]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 4:24 pm, Steve V wrote:
>
>
>>> Frontend:
>>> ASUS M3N-HDMI  motherboard
>>> Athlon 6000 (dual core) CPU
>>> Built in NVIDIA 8300 graphics
>
>>Your built in NVidia 8300 should be capable of VDPAU.
>
> Should have said, I am using VDPAU on the frontend. I have JYAs
> repositories installed.
>
> I am sure that I have also tried without VDPAU and I still get the
> pixelation on TV1 and TV2. Without VDPAU I can't really play TV3, I get
> 100%CPU and stuttering (but that is not an issue to fix as I know the CPU
> is not up to decoding H264). 
>

Fine the frequency for one of the mutiplexes and post the output from
dvbtune. This is on my UK freecom USB stick, and I get zero BlockErrors
and zero Verrors.


dvbtune -c 0 -f 666000000 -m
Using DVB card "WideView USB DVB-T"
tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 666000000 Hz
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS:
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
Bit error rate: 0
Signal strength: 15420
SNR: 59881
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=59881dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=15420, Verror=0, SNR=60138dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)



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