epoch1970 wrote: 
> DI am wandering around integrating some all-in-one box (I have yet
> another pcengines alix2 in my hands.)
> FM and digital radio would be a nice thing to have. I've been looking at
> devices that include the Realtek RTL2832U radio chip and Elonics E4000
> tuner. (see http://superkuh.com/rtlsdr.html)
> Then I thought I would rely on 'rtl_sdr' (http://www.rtlsdr.org) or
> possibly rtl_tcp to tune the dongle.
> 
> I am a lazy person. I didn't look at your Sharkplay plugin. Do you think
> I could hook the rtl_ binaries with your plugin, or was the griffin
> device another beast entirely ?

Also I am being lazy and didn't look at the rtl stuff.

There are two parts making a tuner work with the plugin

1. Tune in a frequency
2. Playing the audio stream.

Radioshark does not support the linux TV/radio tuner stanrd v4l and so
there is a special command line application (shark2) which takes
parameters: radio frequency and also led control.
Once tune - the Radioshark audio is on a standard USBV audio and so
"arecord" is used to play audio from the Radio shark.

If your tuner implements v4l - then you will need to edit the SHARK.pm
file and replace the "shark2" tuning instances with an v4l tuning
executable such as ivtv-tune.  Then you need to modify is the
custom-convert.conf to get audio from your tuner - if it is standard USB
audio - I guess custom-convert.conf "arecord" may need a few small
changes to the parameters to suit your tuner..


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