<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Jeff Simpson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 4/4/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</B> <<A href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Apr 4, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:<BR><BR>> On 4/4/06, Brad DerManouelian <<A href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>> On Apr 4, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Steven Adeff wrote: <BR>>><BR>>>> On 4/4/06, Brad DerManouelian <<A href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>>>> Sorry to repost what's already in the thread, but:<BR>>>>> I'm able to get FM playing through my MythTV box with <BR>>>>> # ivtv-radio -f 90.3<BR>>>><BR>>>> sadly, all I get is noise from mine...<BR>>>><BR>>>> --<BR>>>> Steve<BR>>><BR>>> Do you have your antenna plugged in? You won't get anything <BR>>> without it.<BR>><BR>> first thing I did... but in fact it gives me the same noise with<BR>> or without it.<BR><BR>Ok, well mine was working and doesn't any more. Not sure what I would<BR>have changed to give me the same noise you're getting. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>What noise are we talking about? Is it a static no-signal kind of white noise? or a high-pitch screetchy sort of noise?<BR><BR>The output of /dev/video24 is raw audio, so if you don't tell aplay what format to read it in, it will sound like screetchy death-metal. Try using this command: <BR><BR>aplay -f dat < /dev/video24<BR><BR>the "dat" specifies 48000 Hz, 16 bits, stereo, little-endian<BR><BR>alternatively, you can pipe it through sox for an ogg or mp3 conversion:<BR><BR>cat /dev/video24 | sox -t raw -r 48000 -w -s -c 2 - -t ogg out.ogg<BR>cat /dev/video24 | sox -t raw -r 48000 -w -s -c 2 - -t mp3 out.mp3<BR><BR>I just learned all of this yesterday :-)<BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV>Yeah, aplay -f dat /dev/video24 plays the TV audio without a problem. This is what I get through ivtv-radio:</DIV><DIV>[mythtv@mythtv ~]$ ivtv-radio -f 95.5</DIV><DIV>set to freq 95.50</DIV><DIV>Running: aplay -f dat < /dev/video24</DIV><DIV>Playing raw data 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Starts off with a low rumbling noise, then changes to a normal "I can't get anything on this frequency" noise.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>