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| author | Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net> | 2009-02-12 14:55:45 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-03-30 12:42:45 -0300 |
| commit | 00ec8d0799d56448525b51abbf2075951f637b37 (patch) | |
| tree | cbf7d98c974c8e4982b3f65c66606b186cbe3a0c /Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt | |
| parent | f74a61e3c6f218053742c2caf3e247fb41bf395e (diff) | |
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V4L/DVB (10530): Documentation and code cleanups
- "DealExtreme" sells the "PCear" radio and that comes from "Sanei Electric".
- MPlayer is also usable as radio application.
- Consistent usage of tabulators and blanks in the code.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt index 49679e6aaa76..3a7823e01b4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Driver for USB radios for the Silicon Labs Si470x FM Radio Receivers -Copyright (c) 2008 Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net> +Copyright (c) 2009 Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net> Information from Silicon Labs @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ chips are known to work: - 10c4:818a: Silicon Labs USB FM Radio Reference Design - 06e1:a155: ADS/Tech FM Radio Receiver (formerly Instant FM Music) (RDX-155-EF) - 1b80:d700: KWorld USB FM Radio SnapMusic Mobile 700 (FM700) -- 10c5:819a: DealExtreme USB Radio +- 10c5:819a: Sanei Electric, Inc. FM USB Radio (sold as DealExtreme.com PCear) Software @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Testing is usually done with most application under Debian/testing: - gradio - GTK FM radio tuner - kradio - Comfortable Radio Application for KDE - radio - ncurses-based radio application +- mplayer - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux There is also a library libv4l, which can be used. It's going to have a function for frequency seeking, either by using hardware functionality as in radio-si470x @@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ Audio Listing USB Audio is provided by the ALSA snd_usb_audio module. It is recommended to also select SND_USB_AUDIO, as this is required to get sound from the radio. For listing you have to redirect the sound, for example using one of the following -commands. +commands. Please adjust the audio devices to your needs (/dev/dsp* and hw:x,x). If you just want to test audio (very poor quality): cat /dev/dsp1 > /dev/dsp @@ -80,6 +81,10 @@ sox -2 --endian little -r 96000 -t oss /dev/dsp1 -t oss /dev/dsp If you use arts try: arecord -D hw:1,0 -r96000 -c2 -f S16_LE | artsdsp aplay -B - +If you use mplayer try: +mplayer -radio adevice=hw=1.0:arate=96000 \ + -rawaudio rate=96000 \ + radio://<frequency>/capture Module Parameters ================= |