[linux-dvb] Re: Newstruct and DVB-C with QAM_256

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Bruce Janson wrote:
> 
> Holger,
>     In the above output, both signal and snr are unusual 16-bit
> values in that they each appear to have identical most significant
> and least significant bytes.  Is this coincidence or are they really
> just duplicated 8-bit values?
> 

Some frontends supply the AGC gain as 8bit values, so we duplicate in 
order to allow values in the full range [0x0000...0xffff]. If we would 
scale them only by 256, the range would be [0x0000...0xff00].

Holger



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