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From: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
To: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-dvb <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] A/V sync issues with DVB-S
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:07:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AC2527.1090209@linuxtv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48AC1087.2010503@iki.fi>

Antti Palosaari wrote:
> Thomas Börkel wrote:
>> hermann pitton wrote:
>> Measuring the strength and SNR is not so easy now. My SAT receiver
>> always says strength 70% and SNR 80%. My new Nova S Plus cards always
>> report strength 97% and SNR 99%. Only my TT 1500s reported reasonable
>> numbers like strength 63-80% and SNR 75-90%.
> 
> What is the recommended way to report signal strength or SNR by the 
> driver? Both of those are 16bit unsigned value. Is it better to scale 
> 0-0xffff or return as decibels? If SNR is reported as decibels it will 
> look like very small value...
> 
> Antti

May of the drivers I've added recently report their values in db, but I 
typically also have one precision point. So I report 20.4 as 204 decimal.

- Steve


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-20 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-18  5:13 [linux-dvb] A/V sync issues with DVB-S Thomas Börkel
2008-08-19  2:31 ` hermann pitton
2008-08-20  4:52   ` Thomas Börkel
2008-08-20 12:39     ` Antti Palosaari
2008-08-20 14:07       ` Steven Toth [this message]
2008-08-20 23:40         ` hermann pitton
2008-08-21  9:59         ` Simon Kenyon

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