[mythtv-users] Mobo recommendations

[Yan Seiner]

Brian Wood napsal(a):
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>   
>> At this point the problem seems to be periodic; recordings are fine
>> during the day but start to flake out in the evening.  I suspect it  
>> has
>> to do with signal strength so I ordered power injectors for my
>> antennas.  We'll see how that goes.
>>
>>     
>
> Although possible, it's not very likely that you are having enough  
> signal level variation from night to day to cause things to "flake  
> out". VHF/UHF signals do not depend on atmospheric layers that change  
> with the sun. Amplifiers might cause more problems than they solve,  
> by creating overloads and distortion products.
>   
I suspect you may be right after all.  No, I didn't get any new 
hardware, but I did do some more reading, both on this list and on the 
ivtv list.

I found this:

<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/35222>

and unfortunately followed by this:

<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/35381>

(Of course, my tuner is the one affected.... But I don't know enough to 
tell if it breaks the driver, or just vbi...)

This affects everyone here using the ivtv 0.10 driver....

I've looked at the referenced patch, but frankly I have no clue what I 
am looking for and how I would go about fixing my driver.

:-(

But at least it's saved me several hundred $$$ in unnecessary hardware.

--Yan