Re: AVerMedia AVerTV Stereo: bad reception

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Which "Frequency table" are you using in xawtv ?

The difference between "us-cable" and "us-cable-hrc"
would explain deviations of 0.75 MHz

"John K. Hohm" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 Gunther.Mayer@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Do you have bad video, sound or both ?
> 
> Bad video.  The sound seems just fine, although there is one channel with
> no sound at all, and I'm not certain that stereo is really working.
> 
> > Does finetuning in xawtv improve reception ?
> 
> Finetuning, gee, what a novel idea! (duh! :-)  Yes, I can get quite good
> reception by finetuning every channel to between -3 and -9, except for one
> channel that needs +25.  I don't know if this is related, but the channels
> are all one off what I expect, e.g., channel 5 (which needs the +25) comes
> in as 6, channel 8 comes in as 9, etc.
> 
> Is there a way to save finetuning settings?  After I finetune a channel
> PgUp and PgDn reset my position in the channel list, which is rather
> inconvenient.
> 
> > Which tuner model is this really? Probably the tuner
> > sticker is hidden beneath the Avermedia sticker, you
> > can peel it carefully.
> 
> I'll remove it and examine it closely, and get back to you.  What exactly
> should I be looking for?
> 
> > "John K. Hohm" wrote:
> > >
> > > I have an AVerMedia AVerTV Stereo card, which looks just like the
> > > M168T+NE41S in the gallery, hooked up to a us-cable line.  It is
> > > autodetected as card=13 by bttv-0.7.97, but the default tuner=2 only gets
> > > me two stations.  Many of the other settings, including tuner=1 and
> > > tuner=3, get me indistinguishable results: every channel I expect to get.
> > > My problem is that most of the channels have rather poor reception,
> > > especially compared to the very good reception in Windows XP with
> > > AVerMedia's driver.  The best reception in Linux is about as good as the
> > > worst reception in XP.  I would be glad to do whatever reporting or
> > > debugging is necessary to improve the reception.  Hopefully this is a good
> > > start:
> 
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