Thursday, May 19, 2005

DVB BER will always be zero

pchdtv.com :: View topic - pcHDTV 2000 and DVB: "BTW - the number isn't high bit-error-rate (BER). Neither card has BER capabilities, the HD3000 driver returns 0 if it cant support it, the HD2000 driver returns -1. The two drivers had to go through different linux approval paths to get to the same place and that is one of the dissagreements currently, out there (minor as it is) The DVB API is supposed to determine if the capability is present (which both drivers report they can't do) and only show a number if it means something. Hence what a device returns if it isn't supported is a non-issue so no one wants to pick something and run with it...

There is your bit of OpenSource trivia for the day...

Rusty"

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