[vdr] Re: maximum cable length for wintv nova-s

[Stefaan Coddé <stefaan.codde@pandora.be>]

Claas Hilbrecht wrote:

>Has anyone experience how long the maximum supported cable length by a 
>wintv nova-s pci card is? Currently I have the following setup:

>CAS 90 Kathrein -> UAS 485 Kathrein -> 10 m cable Axing SKB96 (2050 MHz
= 
>29 dB / 100m) -> Überspannungsschutz Axing mit 0,5 dB Dämpfung -> 23 m 
>cable (2050 MHz = 30,8 dB / 100m)

>With this setup vdr says soon after starting the recording: "ERROR:
video 
>data stream broken on device 1". If I change the 23 m cable with a low 
>budget 20 m cable I can record some very broken streams. With both
cables a 
>philips dbox2 works without any problems and the picture is pretty
good.

>Has anyone expierence what I can do to allow approx. 30 - 35 m cable
length?


the nova-s has no on-board mpeg decoder so unless you have not a second
card in your system
that has an on-board mpeg decoder then you won't be able to record
properly.




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