[afnog] sound off bt878*

[Patrick J Okui]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Brian Candler wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:22:54 +0100
> From: Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>
> To: Patrick J Okui <pokui at psg.com>
> Cc: afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: Re: [afnog] sound off bt878*
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:22:46AM +0000, Patrick J Okui wrote:
>> Hi all, if I have a bt878* card (err tv/FM capture card) are
>> there any options I can pass to the kernel so I can get the sound
>> off /dev/dspX (or similar) rather than loop a cable from the line
>> out of the TV card to the line in of my sound card? (err on a
>> Linux or Free/NetBSD box)?
>>
>> Alternatively, any other FM capture cards I can look out for in
>> which the driver has done this for me?
>
> I don't know if it can be done the way you want (perhaps you'd have to run a
> background process to copy the audio across).
>
> However another suggestion is that many sound cards have additional audio
> inputs (e.g. for CD, Line2, Line3) so you could perhaps wire an internal
> cable across, which wouldn't be so messy.

hmm... What I'm trying to avoid is having a soundcard in the 
system and still get the audio stream - that way I can fit more 
bt878 cards into the system unit.

>
> B.
>

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patrick