A friend of mine recently upgraded her TV tuner, and gave me her two older TV Tuners. Her oldest TV Tuner was one of the Hauppauge WinTV models which came with an FM Tuner. I was wondering if anyone has seen a "Radio VCR" project for Linux using an internal FM Tuner card.
I am excited about the prospect of being able to schedule radio recordings, especially as an FM Tuner should surely be able to be changed internally to record from different stations automatically. I've done some scheduled recordings before but it was always through Line-In and an external radio set to one station only. I'd like to be able to set up a system to record different radio shows off different radio stations, much like a VCR can record off several different TV stations. I was especially interested in the use of the "btaudio" driver to permit sound coming into the TV/FM Tuner Card to be transmitted directly over the PCI bus, instead of having to run it through the Line-In on the sound card.
The card is fully supported under Linux, FM Tuner included, but all the Linux radio projects I've found through LinuxTV.org seem to be "listening-only", as opposed to a "Radio VCR".
http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Radio_Listening_Applications
(TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/yp5dwj)
Gnomeradio has the option of recording, but you have to be there to push the "Record" button, and still there to shut off the recording, making it rather useless.
http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/gnomeradio/
I've found an old "Linux Gazette" article from 2003, which used ecasound, lame, and cron to schedule radio programming, but his equipment choice was an external programmable USB radio, as opposed to an internal FM Tuner.
http://linuxgazette.net/issue94/yan-fa.html
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