Hello, all This small patch adds information about si470x radio listening. Probably, it's useful to add such notes in doc file, right ? Feel free to change words in the right way due to my possible bad english.
--- Patch adds information in si470x doc file about mplayer using to listening to the radio with this radio device. Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov <klimov.li...@gmail.com> -- diff -r aba639a17195 linux/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt --- a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt Mon Feb 02 21:09:06 2009 +0300 +++ b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/si470x.txt Tue Feb 03 06:20:29 2009 +0300 @@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ - gradio - GTK FM radio tuner - kradio - Comfortable Radio Application for KDE - radio - ncurses-based radio application +- mplayer - media player for Linux http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ +(see Audio Listening section below) 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 @@ -80,6 +82,12 @@ If you use arts try: arecord -D hw:1,0 -r96000 -c2 -f S16_LE | artsdsp aplay -B - +You can also try mplayer: +mplayer radio://95.23/capture -radio adevice=hw=1.0:arate=96000 -rawaudio rate=96000 +Of course, you should place right "adevice=hw=x.x" option, and you can read +man mplayer to know more about others parameters. Mplayer handles both v4l2-radio +control and sound redirecting, that's why this method is interesting. + Module Parameters ================= -- Best regards, Klimov Alexey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
