[ivtv-users] hvr-1600, frame CRC mismatch - incomplete frame

Devin Heitmueller dheitmueller at kernellabs.com
Fri Feb 12 23:23:16 CET 2010


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Kyle Lil <kpl388 at msn.com> wrote:
> That's correct. The card is connected to a ClearQAM cable source.
>
> The cable is split once between the wall and the tuner card. There is about
> 15ft of cable to the wall and I live on the 4th floor. I wouldn't have
> guessed that signal strength would be my problem, as it seems to work OK in
> Windows or if I plug the cable into the QAM tuner on my TV. Does 0145 seem
> like a reasonable number for signal strength or SNR? I'm not sure how to
> translate that into % or dB...

The SNR field is expressed in 0.1dB increments.  Hence 0x0145
translates to 32.5 dB, which is pretty reasonable.  Also, I don't see
any sign of the SNR changing at the time of the UNC/BER condition.

Devin

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