Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] atsc receiver error rate: 5.19e-05

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:18:26PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
> I thought this was pretty good for last night's recording of
> "Boston Legal":
>         
> end of file, exiting
> 661 errors out of 12727848 mpeg packets.  12727187 good packets.  Error
> rate = 5.19e-05
>         
>         
> That's for a 450Kw xmtr 10 miles away receiving with a scanner antenna.
>         
> What works so far is: recording an hour long program in 3 20-minute
> segments, making about 80Gb per segment. Then running gnuradio-0.9
> on 3 cpu's (with fake mc4020's on another 3 cpu's) and by about
> 10AM the next day they're done.  Then concatenate the 3 transport
> streams into 1 8Gb file, and running hdtv2dvd on it for 2 hours, 
> and out pops one hour long 720x480 ntsc high quality dvd, all from
> thin air.
>         
> Tonight's target video: Bones.
>         
> --Chuck

Cool.  

It's too bad you have to downsample to 720x480 from 1920x1080 or
whatever it was you started with.  Maybe you need to install MythTV?

Eric