btaudio
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- Intro
- =====
- people start bugging me about this with questions, looks like I
- should write up some documentation for this beast. That way I
- don't have to answer that much mails I hope. Yes, I'm lazy...
- You might have noticed that the bt878 grabber cards have actually
- _two_ PCI functions:
- $ lspci
- [ ... ]
- 00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 02)
- 00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 02)
- [ ... ]
- The first does video, it is backward compatible to the bt848. The second
- does audio. btaudio is a driver for the second function. It's a sound
- driver which can be used for recording sound (and _only_ recording, no
- playback). As most TV cards come with a short cable which can be plugged
- into your sound card's line-in you probably don't need this driver if all
- you want to do is just watching TV...
- Driver Status
- =============
- Still somewhat experimental. The driver should work stable, i.e. it
- should'nt crash your box. It might not work as expected, have bugs,
- not being fully OSS API compilant, ...
- Latest versions are available from http://bytesex.org/bttv/, the
- driver is in the bttv tarball. Kernel patches might be available too,
- have a look at http://bytesex.org/bttv/listing.html.
- The chip knows two different modes. btaudio registers two dsp
- devices, one for each mode. They can not be used at the same time.
- Digital audio mode
- ==================
- The chip gives you 16 bit stereo sound. The sample rate depends on
- the external source which feeds the bt878 with digital sound via I2S
- interface. There is a insmod option (rate) to tell the driver which
- sample rate the hardware uses (32000 is the default).
- One possible source for digital sound is the msp34xx audio processor
- chip which provides digital sound via I2S with 32 kHz sample rate. My
- Hauppauge board works this way.
- The Osprey-200 reportly gives you digital sound with 44100 Hz sample
- rate. It is also possible that you get no sound at all.
- analog mode (A/D)
- =================
- You can tell the driver to use this mode with the insmod option "analog=1".
- The chip has three analog inputs. Consequently you'll get a mixer device
- to control these.
- The analog mode supports mono only. Both 8 + 16 bit. Both are _signed_
- int, which is uncommon for the 8 bit case. Sample rate range is 119 kHz
- to 448 kHz. Yes, the number of digits is correct. The driver supports
- downsampling by powers of two, so you can ask for more usual sample rates
- like 44 kHz too.
- With my Hauppauge I get noisy sound on the second input (mapped to line2
- by the mixer device). Others get a useable signal on line1.
- some examples
- =============
- * read audio data from btaudio (dsp2), send to es1730 (dsp,dsp1):
- $ sox -w -r 32000 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
- * read audio data from btaudio, send to esound daemon (which might be
- running on another host):
- $ sox -c 2 -w -r 32000 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp2 -t sw - | esdcat -r 32000
- $ sox -c 1 -w -r 32000 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp2 -t sw - | esdcat -m -r 32000
- Have fun,
- Gerd
- --
- Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>