Re: PVR x50 corrupts ATSC 115 streams

[David Engel <david@istwok.net>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:56:13AM -0500, Steven Toth wrote:
>> I then removed the 250 from slot 4 leaving the 115s in slots 1 and 2.
>> The ber was through the roof and the recorded strams were filled with
>> errors and were barely playable at best.
>
> This ^^^^ is bad, you have something wrong with your feeds. They're 
> probably over amp'd and your leaking RF like crazy.
>
> Go back to basics, put the single unsplit and unamped feed into a single 
> 115 and get that working reliably. Then, split (or amp) and try the 
> second 115.
>
> Try to work out what's causing BER to be > 0 and fix that first.
>
> Personally, I wouldn't add the 250/350 back into the system until I had 
> both 115's running flawlessly with 0 BER and 0 UNC.
>
> Chances are, the 250/350 will work correctly after this - unless the 
> drivers really do have a DMA issue. It's too early to say given the 
> BER/UNC issues you're seeing though.

OK.  I've got another window this evening where I can do some testing
without disupting things too much.

David
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