[ivtv-users] Call for Testers: HVR-1600 Improvements

[Daniel Flesner]

wow, much better. my old snr was about 0x128, now it's 0x14c and i
haven't had any BER errors all night.

thanks,
daniel

Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller at kernellabs.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> If you are an HVR-1600 user who has noticed the ClearQAM tuning
> performance under Linux was worse than under Windows, the following
> should make you happy.
>
> There is now a tree that contains various fixes for ClearQAM tuning.
> These have been measured to put the SNR performance on-par with the
> Windows driver.
>
> http://www.kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/hvr-1600-perf-2
>
> The goal is to submit this upstream, but before that we want to get
> some people to try it out first and submit feedback on their
> experience.
>
> Thanks go out to ONELAN Limited for sponsoring this work!
>
> Feedback (good or bad) on the KernelLabs blog or the linux-media
> mailing list would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Devin