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Message: <blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 6098" data-attributes="member: 174998">Sound being out-of-synch can be due to a few things. If your pc-card is not very fast, it can happen. But it's also possible that the PCR-PID is wrong....Most people are aware of Video-PIDs and Audio-PIDs (PID=Packet Identifier) which need to be correct to get picture and sound at all. But many people don't know what the PCR-PID is.In fact, PCR=Program Clock Reference. It is used to synchronise the video and audio signals. Many receivers allow this to be auto-selected. If yours doesn't, try values a little less or a little more than the value that's there by default. But note: most channels embed the audio in the video bit stream, so the PCR PID is not normally needed. More likely is that the poor synchronisation is due to a poor quality signal - either because of mis-salignment of the dish/LNB, or because the equipment is not capable of providing a stronger signal (eg dish is too small, or the LNB noise-rating is too high). With a poor signal, more error-correction is needed, increasing processing time. Don't pay too much attention to the recommended dish sizes in magazine transponder listings. They are very approximate, and can not take account for example of the different types of dish (is it 150cm mesh dish, solid dish, Cassegrain, Gregorian, what?? - all have different characteristics).Double-check your tranponder frequency settings, the FEC & symbol-rates, and the local-oscillator (LO) settings for your LNB. If these are wrong or badly-out for some channels, that explains why you can get some weak ones and not some strong ones. Hallmark used to be FTA on Intel707, but no longer. Check out Lyngsat and Satcodx sites for up to date info on transponder settings and encryption. What Satellite is notoriously out-of-date...Nilesat 7W Vertically-polarised signals are strong across most of Europe, but the Horizontal ones are very weak. I can just receive them from my location in mid-Netherlands using a 1.20x1.35m Gregorian (equivalent to a 1.50m standard offset dish). The Showtime package (most westerners'interest on Nilesat) are on the Horizontal transponders. But note part of the Showtime package transmits at 68.5East (PanAmSat) on a strong transponder that can be picked up (at least from my location) using an 80cm standard dish)2old</blockquote>

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