[opensuse] Ongoing FM radio prob
Hi. Hoping that someone may be able to help me here - have been trying to get this going for 'quite a while'! Have posted in several forums, and generally haven't had any responses... Would have thought others would be having similar probs... Trying to get the FM radio section of a Kworld/Tevion DVBT-220RF hybrid card working. The DVB section works fine, and is great in, for example, Kaffeine (but can't see what devices Kafeine uses.. /dev/video1, but what else?) Picked up automatically, and never a prob, but... trying to also get the FM section working. Have tried kradio, gnomeradio and the basic ncurses radio, and it works fine, to a point. The stations are scanned, locks on and you can see from signal strength indicators that all is merry, but, no sound.... As this is an saa713x based PC card, with no audio out connectors on the card, I am assuming (dangerous!) that there should be a 'device' (ie /dev/xxx) setup for the audio out...? As far as I can tell, I have 2 radios (radio & radio0), video (video1) and vbi (vbi & vbi0) pointing at this card.... So, basically this is where my basic knowledge stops... Can anyone suggest what I can try to get the audio out of this device? Thanks, John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 19:46 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
Hi. Trying to get the FM radio section of a Kworld/Tevion DVBT-220RF hybrid card working. The DVB section works fine, but... trying to also get the FM section working. Have tried kradio, gnomeradio and the basic ncurses radio, and it works fine, to a point. The stations are scanned, locks on and you can see from signal strength indicators that all is merry, but, no sound....
John, I have this same card, and am using Gnome-Radio. The only problem that I had was discovering that the radio outputs sound through the line-out adaptor, which must then be connected to the line-in on your sound card. My card has an octopus-thingy which plugs into the s-video type socket on the back of the card. One of these is an audio out connector for analog sound. Once you have it connected you can watch/record analog TV and Digital TV simultaneously. Then you just configure Gnome-radio to use /dev/radio0 and 'line' as the mixer source. Cheers, Allen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Allen wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 19:46 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
Hi. Trying to get the FM radio section of a Kworld/Tevion DVBT-220RF hybrid card working. The DVB section works fine, but... trying to also get the FM section working. Have tried kradio, gnomeradio and the basic ncurses radio, and it works fine, to a point. The stations are scanned, locks on and you can see from signal strength indicators that all is merry, but, no sound....
John,
I have this same card, and am using Gnome-Radio.
The only problem that I had was discovering that the radio outputs sound through the line-out adaptor, which must then be connected to the line-in on your sound card. My card has an octopus-thingy which plugs into the s-video type socket on the back of the card. One of these is an audio out connector for analog sound. Once you have it connected you can watch/record analog TV and Digital TV simultaneously.
Then you just configure Gnome-radio to use /dev/radio0 and 'line' as the mixer source.
Cheers,
Allen
Hi Allen, Yeah, guess I will try that - Thanks for the suggestion. Forgot that that was a possibility, I stole the card off the young bloke, so hopefully he still has the adaptor floating around somewhere... Still, would have thought you could still get the audio through the devices... Works OK for the DVB side of the card, and the FM works OK in 'something' (Media Portal, I think - played with it ages ago..) in Windows..... John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Allen wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 19:46 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
Hi. Trying to get the FM radio section of a Kworld/Tevion DVBT-220RF hybrid card working. The DVB section works fine, but... trying to also get the FM section working. Have tried kradio, gnomeradio and the basic ncurses radio, and it works fine, to a point. The stations are scanned, locks on and you can see from signal strength indicators that all is merry, but, no sound....
John,
I have this same card, and am using Gnome-Radio.
The only problem that I had was discovering that the radio outputs sound through the line-out adaptor, which must then be connected to the line-in on your sound card. My card has an octopus-thingy which plugs into the s-video type socket on the back of the card. One of these is an audio out connector for analog sound. Once you have it connected you can watch/record analog TV and Digital TV simultaneously.
Then you just configure Gnome-radio to use /dev/radio0 and 'line' as the mixer source.
Cheers,
Allen
Well, that certainly fixed it, but, still interested to know if these cards will work without the external connectors...? Is it the fact that they are analog, therefore need the analog out/in thing...? Digital TV/Radio works OK passed through the PCI bus...? Anyone? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 02 March 2009 10:41:50 John Bennett wrote:
Well, that certainly fixed it, but, still interested to know if these cards will work without the external connectors...? Is it the fact that they are analog, therefore need the analog out/in thing...? Digital TV/Radio works OK passed through the PCI bus...?
I used to use an analog/USB radio with KRadio that worked in a similar way, you controlled it via USB and it output line level audio back into your soundcard. Since this is described in the 2.6.17 kernel changelog as a "analog/digital hybrid", I would not be surprised if the FM radio and DVB-T video hardware are completely independent and just share a power supply. FWIW KRadio has just been ported to KDE 4 and is available in KDE:KDE4:Community - I should dig out that USB radio again and try it. Will
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 19:41 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
Allen wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 19:46 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
Hi. Trying to get the FM radio section of a Kworld/Tevion DVBT-220RF hybrid card working.
The only problem that I had was discovering that the radio outputs sound through the line-out adaptor, which must then be connected to the line-in on your sound card.
Well, that certainly fixed it, but, still interested to know if these cards will work without the external connectors...?
Before I discovered the need for the cable, I did get it to work without the cable, but I can't remember how. All I can remember is that there was some sound-routing daemon which could capture the stream from the -- I think I found it. A google search turned up this page http://www.cs.aau.dk/~marius/sw/kworld.html which makes reference to sox and asound. Not sure what the parameters should be. I remember it didn't work at all very well, but then I didn't play with it for too long. I then plugged in the cable and ... problem solved. Cheers, Allen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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