From 00ec8d0799d56448525b51abbf2075951f637b37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Lorenz Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:55:45 -0300 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 +Copyright (c) 2009 Tobias Lorenz 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:///capture Module Parameters ================= -- cgit v1.2.3