Author: diego Date: Thu Aug 19 01:10:10 2010 New Revision: 31980 Log: Merge radio chapter into the usage chapter. This improves the overall structure of the documentation.
Deleted: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/radio.xml Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/en/usage.xml Changes in other areas also in this revision: Deleted: trunk/DOCS/xml/cs/radio.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/de/radio.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/es/radio.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/fr/radio.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/hu/radio.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/it/radio.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/pl/radio.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/ru/radio.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/zh_CN/radio.xml Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/cs/documentation.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/cs/usage.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/de/documentation.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/de/usage.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/es/usage.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/fr/documentation.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/fr/usage.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/hu/documentation.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/hu/usage.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/it/documentation.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/it/usage.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/pl/documentation.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/pl/usage.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/ru/documentation.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/ru/usage.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/zh_CN/documentation.xml trunk/DOCS/xml/zh_CN/usage.xml Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml Thu Aug 19 00:42:27 2010 (r31979) +++ trunk/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml Thu Aug 19 01:10:10 2010 (r31980) @@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ can be distributed under the terms of th &install.xml; &usage.xml; -&radio.xml; &video.xml; &ports.xml; &mencoder.xml; Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/usage.xml ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/xml/en/usage.xml Thu Aug 19 00:42:27 2010 (r31979) +++ trunk/DOCS/xml/en/usage.xml Thu Aug 19 01:10:10 2010 (r31980) @@ -1521,4 +1521,98 @@ Here is an example for Russian: </sect2> </sect1> + +<!-- ********** --> + +<sect1 id="radio"> +<title>Radio</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-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> + Make sure your tuner works with another radio software in Linux, for + example <application>XawTV</application>. +</para></listitem> +<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> _______________________________________________ MPlayer-DOCS mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-docs
