NZ Freeview Recording Dropouts

[engnz]

I've been using my HVR3000 for 2 months receiving the NZ Freeview. Recently however I noticed that a few of my recordings (dvr-ms) have dropouts and play only in spurts. The recording also fails to transcode to mpg.

It this because of the recent bad weather? Does GBPVR detect errors in the MPEG stream as it writes to file?

[sub]

I've been using my HVR3000 for 2 months receiving the NZ Freeview. Recently however I noticed that a few of my recordings (dvr-ms) have dropouts and play only in spurts. The recording also fails to transcode to mpg.

It this because of the recent bad weather?

Yeah, this is a likely cause.

Does GBPVR detect errors in the MPEG stream as it writes to file?

No, the data goes straight from the device, through the mux, to disk. GB-PVR does not monitor the data.

[stustunz]

have a look at your recording logs see what the signal strength and quality is like
i get blanks in mine to but if you looked at the dish im using you would be amaized i get any signal

[engnz]

I'm using an old Sky dish that hasn't been used for 4 yrs. I was quite surprised that the LNB still works There's now a few trees that's half blocking its line of sight to the sky so I wasn't even sure that I could get a signal.

The recording service log says Strength=-4699. Don't know what's it relative to. It this good or bad? Why is it negative?




2007-07-18 20:29:04.656 VERBOSE getSetting(BDASubmitTuningRequestTwiceOnRecord)
2007-07-18 20:29:04.656 INFO Starting graph...
2007-07-18 20:29:06.593 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=-4699 quality=100
2007-07-18 20:29:06.593 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)

[stustunz]

yeah my dish was laying down on the ground beside the garage now it nailed to a block of wood on the ground it would be like 8 years old trees close aswell they say it should be 5m from anything mine lucky to 1m from anything

um as for your readings mine say
2007-07-18 18:59:04.531 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=50 quality=100

different card though but would have thought yours would be similar

cut the tress or poison them your choice

[sub]

The recording service log says Strength=-4699. Don't know what's it relative to. It this good or bad? Why is it negative?

Annoyingly all the manufacturers use different scales, making it difficult to answer this. I'm not sure, but I thought Hauppauge told me that anything above zero is considered ok. (could be thinking of some other manufacturer though)