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>> Most of the time, TV is just fine. But sometimes the sound just drops
>> out, the sound disappears totally for up to 20 or 30 seconds. Usually
>> sound returns. When sound drops out, there is no error message.
>>
> If you use mplayer, mplayer will show you if there's some stream corruption.
> Other than that it could only be a codec issue.

I will try with mplayer later. What does codec issue mean? I think the
audio stream in DVB-C is a digital stream that does not need to be
changed or encoded in any way? I thought DVB playback simply is a kind
of pass thru the digital streamt to the media player....