[mythtv-users] using WinTV PVR-350 to play AM/FM radio? (slightly OT)

[Steven C. Liu]

Steven Adeff wrote:

>On 4/5/06, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
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>>>it sounds like the tuner can't tune a station noise.
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>>>I also notice that when using "-j 100.1"  it says its tuning to freq
>>>00.0, so I'm thinking it may be a bug in the driver/software and that
>>>even though it *thinks* its tuning to the station you ask for, it is
>>>in reality not.
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>>hmm, that's just not right!
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>I know man, seriously! ;-)
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>>Does it do that for other stations, too, or just 100.1? I noticed that for
>>some stations, it would round to a weird number (101.7 goes to 101.69 for
>>example), but never just tuning to 00.0.
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>I tried 10 stations, all with the same outcome, all using my radio
>antenna that works fine on my stereo's tuner.
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I have no problems using ivtv-radio to tune to 100.1.  I'm using FC4 and 
0.19 MythTV and 0.4.3-106 ivtv rpm.

>>Have you tried tuning with gnomeradio? I just tried that on mine last night
>>and it worked like a charm, it could even scan through the stations and stop
>>on valid ones. (I had to use aplay in the background to play the audio from
>>it, however, since gnomeradio assumes that the audio comes into the sound
>>card as an input).
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>I did not think of that. I will try it next time I get a chance.
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I did not find an FC4 version of the rpm.  Is it ok that I use FC3, or 
should I just build the darn thing from a src-tarball?

Steve
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