[mythtv-users] announce: script for locating QAM channels

[Matt Mossholder]

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 22:10 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> You say you have "signal strength" problems. "Unwatchably choppy"  
> might describe what I have seen when using the azap/mplayer method on  
> the 288 streams that atscscan found on my system.
> 
> But the BER shows zero on all of these channels, so I don't think it  
> is a signal strength problem.
> 
> What did your system show for BER ?? I wonder if you are having the  
> same problem I am. If I just run azap it shows "FE has lock" on every  
> line, but when I run mplayer to try and watch a stream I then see  
> many lines without the lock message, although a lot of them have it  
> also.
> 

I've yet to have BER show as anything but 0 on my system, but if I have
a weak signal, I'll definitely get bad reception(artifacts, choppy
sound, etc.).  A amplifier cleared all that right up.

		--Matt