From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx10.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.14]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nACKa4rB002330 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:36:04 -0500 Received: from mail14.bluewin.ch (mail14.bluewin.ch [195.186.19.62]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nACKa3Ms017157 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:36:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4AFC71A6.1020509@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:35:50 +0100 From: Roland Egli MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hermann pitton References: <4AF87D5D.5090205@gmx.net> <20091110145049.GA3282@bluebox.local> <1257901606.3246.30.camel@pc07.localdom.local> In-Reply-To: <1257901606.3246.30.camel@pc07.localdom.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Terratec Cinergy 600 TV MK3: Problem with Radio/RDS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com List-ID: hermann pitton wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 15:50 +0100 schrieb Hans J. Koch: > >> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:36:45PM +0100, Roland Egli wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> I have the TV card "Terratec Cinergy 600 TV MK3" with SAA7134HL. The >>> tuner is a Philips FM1216ME/H-3 and there is an additional RDS decoder >>> SAA6588T. >>> >>> For loading the module I use >>> $ modprobe saa7134 card=48 tuner=38 >>> >>> TV works fine, but I have a problem with the radio. The sound is very >>> noisy, not stereo and there is as well no RDS reception (saa6588 module >>> is loaded as well). >>> >> For RDS reception, you need a strong signal since the RDS carrier's >> level is well below the audio carrier level. Your only chance is to >> improve reception. What kind of antenna are you using? Are you sure it's >> connected to the _radio_ antenna jack and not the TV? >> >> Thanks, >> Hans >> >> > > Hans, for what I know it makes no difference on that tuner, if radio > comes in from the TV antenna connector or from the radio connector. > > At least we don't have some dedicated separating RF input switch for > that. > > For example, the other way round, if you have a cable TV provider also > providing radio, and radio freqs are not filtered from the TV input > connected, radio will just work fine from the TV antenna connector and > likely are all stereo. I can't tell anything for RDS. > > If you now also connect that cheap rabbit ears antenna mostly coming > with such cards, this might lead to overlapping frequencies noticed as > too much noise on radio. Maybe we still miss something, but it is not in > the tuner specs. > > Me and one single other guy reported loud thrilling noise for radio if > tuned into off on later driver revisions. I'm still not sure, if it is > only caused by machine specific interferences, a network cable had some > impact on it, but I saw/heard it later also on FMD hybrid devices on a > different machine. > > To connect the rabbit ears to the radio antenna connector will turn that > annoying noise into normal static. On that FMD hybrid you usually will > have the better radio reception from a roof mounted antenna for DVB-T > and there is also no active RF input switching like we only saw it later > on silicon hybrid devices. > > For radio stereo it needs still some v4l2 app and kradio and mplayer > with v4l2 radio support are still the best candidates, but I'm not on > latest on radio apps around currently. > > Reception improvement is of course still the best key for all. > > Thanks, > Hermann > > > Thanks for the answers and your further quesions, which I can answer here: - I receive Radio and TV via cable, so the signal strength is ok (for stereo and rds) - There are no frequency-filters so the tuner gets the whole bandwith - In Windows with the original Terratec-SW everything (incl. RDS) works fine. So I assume, there must be a problem in the driver in the area of radio. Thanks for further help in advance. Roland -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list