On 20/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">timecop</b> <<a href="mailto:timecop@gmail.com">timecop@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I'm using MythTV (surprise), and the card gets a 'partial' lock (L_S is<br>> what's reported by myth), but the signal strength info seems a bit off the<br>> wall (97% strength, 4.8dB signal/noise). Scanning for the channels went
<br><br>I duno about everything else, but C/N ratio of 4.8dB is horrible.<br>Though I guess it's probably the driver failing it, just like every<br>other linux-dvb driver.<br><br>-tc<br></blockquote></div><br>If the signal's so bad, why does a scan find all the channels perfectly.
<br><br>The card's are kinda cheap, and there isn't any shielding
around any of the chips, but it's not as if I'm in a marginal area of
coverage (Central U.K. gets pretty good Astra coverage).<br><br>Here's the post I was talking about:
<a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-September/012873.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-September/012873.html
</a><br><br>quote:<br>I believe there have been changes in the tuning algorithm with the cx24123 cards. <br>/quote<br><pre><br></pre>Does anybody know anything about this?<br><br>James<br>