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From: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
To: Scott Bronson <bronson@rinspin.com>
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Unreliable tuning with HVR-950q
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:37:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D49A39.5010909@linuxtv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d87242f0809192255t49e112bfvd9c95e66bd3292a8@mail.gmail.com>

Scott Bronson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Scott Bronson <bronson@rinspin.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Devin Heitmueller
>> <devin.heitmueller@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What application are you using?  Kaffeine?  Scan?
>> mplayer and MythTV.  They seem to be about equally unreliable.
> 
> And scan of course.  I haven't noticed any problems with it missing channels.
> 
> Does scan try to acquire a lock?  Would it be useful for me to run it
> 5 or 6 times in a row and see how consistent its results are?

I guess it's possible that the frontend is being overwhelmed. What 
happens if you discinnect the antenna and hold it very close to the 
antenna connector on the usb device and try locking on a channel that 
doesn't normally lock (on a very close transmitter).

- Steve

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-20  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-19 21:25 Unreliable tuning with HVR-950q Scott Bronson
2008-09-19 21:28 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-09-20  3:05   ` Scott Bronson
2008-09-20  5:55     ` Scott Bronson
2008-09-20  6:37       ` Steven Toth [this message]
2008-09-21 20:16         ` Scott Bronson
2008-09-22  2:28           ` Steven Toth
2008-09-22 19:06             ` Scott Bronson
2008-09-22 19:22               ` Steven Toth
2008-09-23  6:35                 ` Scott Bronson
2008-09-23 15:14                   ` Steven Toth
2008-09-26 16:52                     ` Scott Bronson
2008-10-01 18:46                       ` Scott Bronson
2008-10-06 15:43                         ` Steven Toth
2008-10-06 15:53                           ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-10-06 15:57                             ` Steven Toth

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