FM radio (v4l) listening software?

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Hello, I want to listen fm radio over my V4L (Philips SAA7134 tv/fm) tuner. I have the appropriate configuration in kernel and module options, but I can't find any software to play it
Here is the big enough list of suggested software, but nothing is in Portage.
Only fmtools is available, but how to play? That how-to describes recording via sox (but syntax contains old OSS /dev/audio API... it's useless). There's another guide, but I get silence and nothing more.

Need help



ps It's working on Debian (this package), so the hardware is ok.

[fedeliallalinea]

You tried gqradio ?

EDIT: also mplayer seems be to able listing radio
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[soundrolf]

This will do the job

media-sound/fmtools

[Marlo]

Hi,

Listening to the radio through a web browser is easier.
Try this Dutch university site. --> http://radio.garden/
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[Hu]

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Thanks to ALL for replies.
There's my saa7134 card:

[Marlo]

[soundrolf]

You need an analog radio card to use media-sound/fmtools
Receiving the signal with antenna or cable

To use fmtolls simply do 'fm on'
then fm -d /dev/radio0 'MHz of your station' 65535
Now you hear your radio station

At my home I do 'fm -d /dev/radio0 98.80 65535 this is WDR broadcast station in cologne/germany FM Radio frequency

To switch off fmtools do 'fm off'

Thats it.

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[soundrolf]

test with 'ls /dev' if there is a radio0 device

if not you don't have an analog radio card or card not working

the Philips SAA7134 tv/fm chipset is heavy stuff to figure out how to run it proper
there are so many driver options

something to read:

https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Fmtools

https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Saa713x_devices

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/media/v4l-drivers/saa7134.html

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/media/v4l-drivers/saa7134.html

[cord]

Of course it is there. You see dmesg I showed above, didn't you

[soundrolf]

You are right devices are there.

There are ton's of parameters for different saa7134 chips
Figure out which card exactly is used. You may check which saa7134 is built in

Start here: /usr/src/linux-4.19.97-gentoo/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/
saa7134-cardlist.rst and saa7134-cardlist.txt and saa7134.rst

Create a "/etc/modprobe.d/saa7134.conf" file with this sole content: "options saa7134 i2c_scan=1"
They are ton's of parameters you can try out.
modprobe -vr saa7134_dvb
modprobe -vr saa7134_alsa
modprobe -vr saa7134
modprobe -v saa7134 card=40 <-- here you place your card

I tried it with an Medion MD5044 on an older Computer. It's like hell to figure out the right parameters
No way, my radio does not work. I have a Hauppage TV+Radio card,in my computer now this does the job

Hope it helps

[cord]

Yes, it is defined, I have AVerMedia Cardbus TV/Radio (E501R), which is 'card=158' insmod option (all this you can see in dmesg). And this is the driver/options, which is working on Debian with that package. Unfortunately, Gentoo doesn't have it in portage.

[soundrolf]

This works on my Gentoo box

Open terminal and then
mplayer radio://98.80 <---- set your own radiostation fm frequency

may be you must use alsamixer to set up sound level and unmute channel
My tv/fm card has a line output this output is connected with line input to my onboard soundcard by stereo minijack cable

with alsamixer I have to unmute line input and increase volume line level

Radio from antenna (analog) works as requested

Hope you get it working

[cboldt]

I've used ivtv-radio from media-tv/ivtv-utils

Haven't tried to compile mplayer with USE=radio support, but that sounds (hahahah) intriguing.

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[elsandosgrande]

This is probably a stupid question, but did anybody try looking for radio packages in the Gentoo overlays?

[cboldt]

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[cboldt]

My capture/radio card drivers/modules provide /dev/radio0 /dev/video0 /dev/video24 /dev/video32

/de/video24 is an audio-only device, and on my system points to the same hardware (capture card, FM tuner), same set of modules, and so on.

[cord]

There's only /dev/video0 and /dev/radio0 in my system (as well as in Debian).

[cord]

Alright, the only application, which is working (not good, but at all) is mplayer.
Here's output:

[soundrolf]

You may check which use flags are enabled

These is my /etc/portage/package.use/mplayer file

media-video/mplayer bidi cdio cddb cdparanoia fbcon iconv jpeg libcaca mad mp3 network dvdnav enca faac faad libmpeg2 mng osdmenu pnm png radio rtc rtmp sdl speex theora truetype unicode shm tga toolame twolame vcd vidix yuv4mpeg dvd ggi v4l gif xinerama x264 dvb oss

hope it helps

Regard

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