[linux-dvb] Re: Cinergy 1200 DVB-T TDA10046H / auto mode causes problems

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Saturday 20 Nov 2004 00:09, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> On Friday 19 Nov 2004 22:46, Robert Schlabbach wrote:
> > From: "Andrew de Quincey" <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
> >
> > > It keeps going until it locks. But the thing is - it DOES lock very
> > > quickly - just that the data is very corrupt. The interesting thing
> > > is that the BER is always 0 post-lock.... assuming the BER measurement
> > > is OK, that means the data must be being lost after the demodulator
> >
> > stage.
> >
> > You mean corrupt in a way other than the transport error bit being set in
> > the MPEG-2 transport packet header? Maybe the transport stream interface
> > is behaving "weird" in this state? Then you might want to look at the
> > registers Conf_TS1 and Conf_TS2 (0x1E and 0x1F) and try e.g. output Mode
> > A and output Mode B and see if one of those doesn't have this problem...
>
> I'll give it a go - what I actually mean is lots of missing data - I have
> not tested to see if the contents of the packets I do receive themselves
> are corrupt.

Got it - on the KNC1 DVB-T, you have to set the "mux_pola_clk" bit - bit 7 of 
register 0x3a on the TDA10046. Now I get a perfect signal. Strange though, 
that was the very first thing I tried - I would have expected hours of 
fiddling :)