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ivtv && Radio Data System (RDS) - is there something planned/already available

DISCUSSION wk 3 participants 5 messages Jun 19, 2009 – Jun 20, 2009 Media (V4L/DVB)

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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?

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Winfried

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Quoted 5 lines · 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.

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Hans

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Quoted 10 lines · Hans Verkuil
Quoted 5 lines · 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!

Ed

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Quoted 15 lines · Edouard Lafargue
Quoted 8 lines · Hans Verkuil
Quoted 6 lines · 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?

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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.

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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

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Quoted 10 lines · Hans Verkuil
Quoted 6 lines · 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.

Ok, if the hardware doesnt support it, further questions are meaningless..

thanks,
Winfried