From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:44975 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753531AbZFTIVE (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:21:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4A3C9BAD.5010106@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:19:57 +0200 From: wk MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edouard Lafargue CC: Hans Verkuil , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ivtv && Radio Data System (RDS) - is there something planned/already available References: <4A3B7851.6080008@gmx.de> <200906191343.59596.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <268161120906190505v4100f87eh68b8b9e774aa32e9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <268161120906190505v4100f87eh68b8b9e774aa32e9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Edouard Lafargue wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > >> On Friday 19 June 2009 13:36:49 wk wrote: >> >>> Is there anything planned/ongoing to support Radio Data System (RDS) >>> with ivtv supported cards? >>> Would be quite helpful for analogue radio channel scanning and finding >>> the matching channel names. >>> Is there something out to be tested? >>> >> As far as I know there are no ivtv-based cards with RDS functionality. If >> you have one that can do RDS under Windows, then please let me know and I >> can take a look. >> > > A workaround can be to use a 10$ USB radio with RDS support and use > it as a secondary (silent) tuner for doing the scanning operations in > the background, so that you can have a fully up to date radio stations > list all the time without impacting the listening of your main radio > tuner - works very well! > > Well, the idea was to integrate this into a channel scanning tool. So this wouldnt be an option. Winfried