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> Done some more investigation...Seems to be even if I run mplayer from<br>
> the command line, I am getting the same errors as above. On the<br>
> channels, I am getting around 25-30% signal strength. Is this adequate,<br>
> or could this be the cause for some of the issue?<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Kelvin Smith<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>I think signal strength readings are tuner card dependant. My Nova-T-500 reports signal strength of around 50% and I get very good HD reception.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I too have a Nova-T 500 and anything less than 60% results in visual corruption. However, I think it is also important to look at the error count in the signal. I use dvbtune when fluffing around with signal issues. A-la:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>$ dvbtune -f 570000 -I 0 -qam 64 -gi 16 -cr 3_4 -bw 8 -tm 8 -m 1</div><div>Using DVB card "DiBcom 3000MC/P"</div><div>tuning DVB-T (in United Kingdom) to 570000000 Hz</div><div>polling....</div>
<div>Getting frontend event</div><div>FE_STATUS:</div><div>polling....</div><div>Getting frontend event</div><div>FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC</div><div>Event: Frequency: 570000000</div>
<div> SymbolRate: 0</div><div> FEC_inner: 3</div><div>Bit error rate: 0</div><div>Signal strength: 45804</div><div>SNR: 0</div><div>FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC</div>
<div>Signal=45802, Verror=0, SNR=0dB, BlockErrors=34, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</div><div>Signal=45799, Verror=0, SNR=0dB, BlockErrors=34, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</div><div>Signal=45809, Verror=0, SNR=0dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</div><div>
Signal=45820, Verror=0, SNR=0dB, BlockErrors=0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The -f option depends on where you are obviously. The others are a copy-paste special from this list.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div></div></div>