(This is a resend of an email I sent directory to Mike - sorry, I wasn't thinking and should have sent it to the list.)
I'm writing to ask if pvrusb2-mci-20070114 supports stereo FM. I tried to make this short, but... Two years ago I bought a PVR USB2, really just wanting FM stereo radio. I _believe_ the unit is stereo but I guess I don't know for sure. Neither the WinTV box nor manual mentions FM stereo, but the web site does (and did back then, I believe, or I wouldn't have bought the unit). I bought it without researching the state of the Linux driver support very well and found that the driver didn't do radio. I made do by plugging an old external tuner into my Line-In. Since then I've moved to a new computer. It has a WinTV PVR-150 MCE. I got TV and Radio working, but the radio seems to be only FM _mono_. I was pleased to find that pvrusb2 now has radio support, so I built the latest pvrusb2-mci-20070114 and replaced the 2.6.18 kernel version. TV still works, but when I play the radio, it's still mono. I've tried with both a cable TV feed and the wire FM antena that comes with the PVR USB2. Is the pvrusb2 driver meant to support stereo? I can't play the radio as I would expect. Perhaps I'm using the wrong program (ivtv-radio)? I have to run "mplayer /dev/radio1" which gives an empty video window while the radio audio plays. mplayer says this about the audio: ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/14.58% (ratio: 28000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== Here is the internal WinTV radio playing OK with "ivtv-radio", but MONO: $ ivtv-radio -d /dev/radio0 -f 98.7 set to freq 98.70 Running: aplay -f dat < /dev/video24 Playing raw data 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo Here is the PVR USB2. I haven't located ivtv-detect yet: $ ivtv-radio -d /dev/radio1 -f 107.3 set to freq 107.30 /dev/video24 belongs to a different ivtv driver then /dev/radio1. Run ivtv-detect to discover the correct radio/PCM out combination. The above _does_ change the radio station. I can also change it with: echo 107300000 > /sys/class/pvrusb2/sn-7570160/ctl_frequency/cur_val Here are my devices. You can see by the date stamps that pvrusb2 caused /dev/radio1 and /dev/video2 to be created today. # ls -l /dev/rad* /dev/vid* crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 64 2007-01-15 22:24 /dev/radio0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 65 2007-01-18 16:14 /dev/radio1 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2007-01-15 22:24 /dev/video0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 1 2007-01-18 16:14 /dev/video1 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 24 2007-01-15 22:24 /dev/video24 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 32 2007-01-15 22:24 /dev/video32 Some more info: Debian "sid" system running kernel 2.6.18-3-686. WinTV USB2: 29032 Rev D158 NTSC/NTSC-J The manual says "QI-PVRUSB2-V2.5-ENG August 26, 2004", but that's probably just the manual version. Thanks, ...RickM... _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
