Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Scheduler enhancement?

[Sylvain Munaut]

Hi,

> It's a little bit off-topic but if someone will change the gr-osmosdr,
> it would be great to have other stream tags that we are used to see at
> the output UHD source. For example if the source prints on the output
> that there is some problem with transmission it would be great to add a
> stream tag at that moment. In Multi-RTL
> (https://github.com/ptrkrysik/multi-rtl/) currently any such event means
> that synchronization of channels is lost until user manually calls
> resynchronization. Because there is no way to detect samples loss
> resynchronization can't be called automatically.

rtl-sdr can't detect sample loss ...

With USRP, the hw reports overflows to the host, but the rtl-sdr has
no such thing, it will drop sample silently if its internal buffers
overflow.


Cheers,

   Sylvain