Symptoms of bad aerial signal?

[gEd]

I'm 4 miles NW of crystal palace, all working fine here!

btw: I found that good quality connectors, splitters and cable to be really important when you are sharing the aerial with the tv and 1 or more tuners. I found the really cheap plastic Y splitters to be problematic. Recording TV is much more sensitive to breaks in the stream as it screws up the timeline which is a non-issue when watching live tv.

[martint123]

I've always found a TV is mores sensitive and less liable to interference/noise than any PC tuner, digital or analogue, internal or USB.

[Kiwi]

I posted this in xbmc forum, but think it might be more relevant here...

I have been getting strange things happening with recorded shows lately. The show might read as 17 hours or so long, and the play bar reflects this. All is well for say 40 mins, then picture begins to break up and make those squiting sounds that digital does. Length of recording changes, and so does the current time played in the recording. Eventually the whole thing grinds to halt - or if trying to skip an add you timewarp to somewhere much later.
I don't have any signal problem when just watching on the tv via its own tuner though. And previously I have used a signal checking program that revealed nothing of interest on the pc in question. All else I can do is put my osciloscope on the aerial one time.
Has anyone else experienced these symptoms and am I correct in suspecting signal? Ot could it be codecs etc?
It was all working swimingly for a while, too

thanks,

Wow... occasionally I also got such a problem, just that I put it down to occasional signal issues and unable to bother about it. I still think it's signal issue though.

[Wilbour]

Wow... occasionally I also got such a problem, just that I put it down to occasional signal issues and unable to bother about it. I still think it's signal issue though.

I too have had similar problems with some shows. Our local transmitter has been shutting down each morning andd that seems to be the cause. This the time they use to repair the tower.