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[media] radio-si470x doc: add info about v4l2-ctl and sox+alsa
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Patch adds information about using v4l2-ctl utility to tune the si470x
radio and example how to use sox+alsa to redirect sound from radio sound
device to another sound device.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Alexey Klimov authored and Mauro Carvalho Chehab committed Feb 13, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ Testing is usually done with most application under Debian/testing:
- kradio - Comfortable Radio Application for KDE
- radio - ncurses-based radio application
- mplayer - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
- v4l2-ctl - Collection of command line video4linux utilities
For example, you can use:
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/radio0 --set-ctrl=volume=10,mute=0 --set-freq=95.21 --all

There is also a library libv4l, which can be used. It's going to have a function
for frequency seeking, either by using hardware functionality as in radio-si470x
Expand All @@ -75,8 +78,10 @@ commands. Please adjust the audio devices to your needs (/dev/dsp* and hw:x,x).
If you just want to test audio (very poor quality):
cat /dev/dsp1 > /dev/dsp

If you use OSS try:
If you use sox + OSS try:
sox -2 --endian little -r 96000 -t oss /dev/dsp1 -t oss /dev/dsp
or using sox + alsa:
sox --endian little -c 2 -S -r 96000 -t alsa hw:1 -t alsa -r 96000 hw:0

If you use arts try:
arecord -D hw:1,0 -r96000 -c2 -f S16_LE | artsdsp aplay -B -
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