[vdr] Re: Tool to display signal quality?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Carsten Koch wrote:
> 
> Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> >
> > Martin Neuditschko wrote:
> >
> > > Download the newstruct dirvers and take a look at DVB/apps/scap.
> > > There is a tool called czap. It outputs every second the new
> > > signal strength, bit error rate, SNR and some other things.
> >
> > is VDR ready to use NEWSTRUCT drivers? if yes I'll change the tech patch
> > to work with it; as driver developers said already few months ago, in
> > the newstruct drivers the signal quality calls are much improved.
> 
> I believe vdr 1.0 is not and in vdr 1.1 NEWSTRUCT is optional.
> So I guess the patch for vdr 1.0 should stay as it is and a
> possible plugin for vdr 1.1 should work with both old and new
> drivers, like vdr 1.1 itself.
> 
> I have not personally tried the NEWSTRUCT drivers.
> Are they anywhere near ready for productive use?

There appears to still be a problem with live audio and video being
"blacked out" shortly every few seconds when VDR is running. I have
reported this to Holger Wächtler from convergence, but I guess he
hasn't had time to look into this yet.

Klaus
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