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author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2009-05-08 18:29:27 -0700 |
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committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2009-05-08 18:29:27 -0700 |
commit | d585a021c0b10b0477d6b608c53e1feb8cde0507 (patch) | |
tree | 5ca059da1db7f15d4b29427644ad9c08270c885c /Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt | |
parent | 84e5b0d00f8f84c4ae226be131d4bebbcee88bd3 (diff) | |
parent | 091bf7624d1c90cec9e578a18529f615213ff847 (diff) |
Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into next
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diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt index 49679e6aaa7..3a7823e01b4 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 ================= |