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| author | Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net> | 2009-02-12 18:55:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net> | 2009-02-12 18:55:45 +0100 |
| commit | ae85ab3edf003a61636030b72791577b41818bb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1672af994aa8f5cce56bf0a7e4860540fba2d90d /linux/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt | |
| parent | 404ee5d5dea9be4f51d5a436a2a33a00e47be1ed (diff) | |
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Documentation and code cleanups
From: Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net>
- "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.
Priority: normal
Signed-off-by: Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net>
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diff --git a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt index 49679e6aa..3a7823e01 100644 --- a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt +++ b/linux/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 ================= |