On 09/11/05, Curtis Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Jerry Rubinow wrote: > > > On 09/11/05, Curtis Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Are you using firewire? I'm finding that my DCT-6200 box spits out > >> some pretty bad mpeg streams. I get a lot of errors like you are > >> seeing on HD channels. The weird thing is, some channels are better > >> than others. The HD movie channel and PBS are almost flawless. The > >> network HD channels are full of crap, it seems. I get jumpy audio and > >> lots of errors and prebuffering pauses on these channels. > >> > >> Curtis > > > > I had a problem with flaky firewire streams from a DCT-6200, only on > > certain channels, just like you describe. It turned out to be the > > coax cable to the cable box. I replaced it with a new one and the > > flakiness vanished. The flakiness was only on a couple of channels, > > the rest were totally fine. Don't know if that's your problem, but > > swapping out a cable is an easy things to check. > > > > -Jerry > > Ahh, thanks Jerry! I will try that. Mine's going through a splitter, > too. Do you have any suggestions for cable type or do you think you > just had a bad cable? > > Curtis
You might want to test it without the splitter as well, just run the cable coming out of the wall from the outside straight into the cable box. I don't have any specific suggestions as to cable type - I don't know that much about the technical differences between different types of cables. But the cable I replaced it with looked more sturdy and had better connectors on it. As far as I know, it was just better quality, not a different type of cable. -Jerry _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
