Poor cable television reception and dropped frames

I use vcr to capture television programs with a brooktree tuner/capture
card.  It seems that the channels at the lower end of the spectrum (ie
2,3,4) have poor reception due to bad in wall cables.  When I do
captures on these channels drop lots of frames in an hour. Channels at
the higher end of the spectrum do fine.

Machine is a dual P3 933 with 1 gig of ram, and 170 gig of ATA 100
7200rpm drives.

Capture thread exiting
         Captured 111504 frames.
             Frames dropped in capture: 652 (0.0%)
             Frames dropped in encoder: 1191 (0.0%)
         Exiting..
         Waiting for write thread
         MP3EncodeR::Close()
         Write thread exiting
         Waiting for audio thread
         Waiting for video thread
         All threads exited
         v4l1: VIDIOCCAPTURE in ::setCapture
         v4l1: VIDIOCSYNC in ::~v4l1if
         v4l1: ioctl VIDIOCCAPTURE in v4l1if::~v4l1if
         Total Unfree 3596428 bytes cnt 49 [0,0]

Can anyone shed any light on if this is an expected behavior?


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