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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- $Revision$ --> <chapter id="radio"> <title>Radio</title> <sect1 id="radio-input" xreflabel="Radio input"> <title>Radio input</title> <para> This section is about how to enable listening to radio from a V4L-compatible radio tuner. See the man page for a description of radio options and keyboard controls. </para> <!-- ********** --> <sect2 id="radio-compilation"> <title>Compilation</title> <procedure> <step><para> First, you have to recompile <application>MPlayer</application> using <filename>./configure</filename> with <option>--enable-radio</option> and (if you want capture support) <option>--enable-radio-capture</option>. </para></step> <step><para> Make sure your tuner works with another radio software in Linux, for example <application>XawTV</application>. </para></step> </procedure> </sect2> <!-- ********** --> <sect2 id="radio-tips"> <title>Usage tips</title> <para> The full listing of the options is available in the manual page. Here are just a few tips: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> Use the <option>channels</option> option. An example: <screen>-radio channels=104.4-Sibir,103.9-Maximum</screen> Explanation: With this option, only the 104.4 and 103.9 radio stations will be usable. There will be a nice OSD text upon channel switching, displaying the channel's name. Spaces in the channel name must be replaced by the "_" character. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> There are several ways of capturing audio. You can grab the sound either using your sound card via an external cable connection between video card and line-in, or using the built-in ADC in the saa7134 chip. In the latter case, you have to load the <systemitem>saa7134-alsa</systemitem> or <systemitem>saa7134-oss</systemitem> driver. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <application>MEncoder</application> cannot be used for audio capture, because it requires a video stream to work. So your can either use <application>arecord</application> from ALSA project or use <option>-ao pcm:file=file.wav</option>. In the latter case you will not hear any sound (unless you are using a line-in cable and have switched line-in mute off). </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </sect2> <!-- ********** --> <sect2 id="radio-examples"> <title>Examples</title> <informalexample><para> Input from standard V4L (using line-in cable, capture switched off): <screen>mplayer radio://104.4</screen> </para></informalexample> <informalexample><para> Input from standard V4L (using line-in cable, capture switched off, V4Lv1 interface): <screen>mplayer -radio driver=v4l radio://104.4</screen> </para></informalexample> <informalexample><para> Playing second channel from channel list: <screen>mplayer -radio channels=104.4=Sibir,103.9=Maximm radio://2</screen> </para></informalexample> <informalexample> <para> Passing sound over the PCI bus from the radio card's internal ADC. In this example the tuner is used as a second sound card (ALSA device hw:1,0). For saa7134-based cards either the <systemitem>saa7134-alsa</systemitem> or <systemitem>saa7134-oss</systemitem> module must be loaded. <screen> mplayer -rawaudio rate=32000 radio://2/capture \ -radio adevice=hw=1.0:arate=32000:channels=104.4=Sibir,103.9=Maximm </screen> <note><para> When using ALSA device names colons must be replaced by equal signs, commas by periods. </para></note> </para> </informalexample> </sect2> </sect1> </chapter>