[mythtv-users] using WinTV PVR-350 to play AM/FM radio? (slightly OT)

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Sun Apr 2 08:07:32 UTC 2006


On Apr 2, 2006, at 1:24 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> On Apr 2, 2006, at 12:45 AM, Steven C. Liu wrote:
>
>> Sorry, folks, if this question is too OT for this list...
>>
>> I was wondering if it's possible to use my PVR-350 to play regular  
>> FM/AM radio?  I believe it has the capability, and I imagine I  
>> could do so easily enough on a WinXP box.  Surely I can do this in  
>> Linux/Myth - can't I?  FYI - I use FC4.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Steve
>
> There's this plugin that adds FM support, but I don't know if  
> anyone's gotten it to work in 0.19. I never got it working in 0.18,  
> but I honestly didn't try that hard.
>
> http://mythextra.napsi.net/mythFM.html
>
> Also, I see this:
>
> [mythtv at mythtv ~]$ ls -l /dev | grep radio
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root          6 Mar 31 18:45 radio -> radio0
> crw-------  1 mythtv root    81,  64 Mar 31 18:45 radio0
>
> So I assume it's just a matter of tuning to the frequency you want  
> and playing it through to your audio device. But again.. there  
> doesn't appear to be enough interest to get it working and  
> certainly hasn't been enough to include it in the standard mythtv  
> packages.

Just an update.. I'm able to get FM playing through my MythTV box  
with # ivtv-radio -f 90.3 so I guess it's a matter of adding stations  
to the TV lineup and issuing the right channel change command when it  
hits radio-specific "channels". Then making it play back with a nice  
screen showing the station recorded instead of the green screen that  
plays when you record it now. Of course everyone will want MP3  
compression built in as well.

Is anyone interested enough in pursuing this?

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