rtl_fm problem with capture audio

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Vitaliy Kulchevych coolchevy at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 09:59:19 UTC 2012


Hi, KD9GN

I'm tried your example

$ rtl_fm -f 100.0e6 -N -s 170e3 -o 4 -A -r 32e3 -l 0 - | play -t raw
-r 32k -e signed-integer -b 16 -c 1 -V1 -

-: (raw)

  Encoding: Signed PCM
  Channels: 1 @ 16-bit
Samplerate: 32000Hz
Replaygain: off
  Duration: unknown

In:0.00% 00:00:00.00 [00:00:00.00] Out:0     [      |      ]
Clip:0    Found 1 device(s):
  0:  Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 00000013

Using device 0: ezcap USB 2.0 DVB-T/DAB/FM dongle
Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner
Oversampling input by: 2x.
Oversampling output by: 4x.
Buffer size: 6.02ms
Tuned to 100340000 Hz.
Sampling at 1360000 Hz.
Output at 32000 Hz.
Exact sample rate is: 1360000.050439 Hz
Tuner gain set to automatic.
In:0.00% 00:00:01.02 [00:00:00.00] Out:49.1k [!=====|=====!] Hd:0.0 Clip:39


But I listen only QRM, there are not music)

What I'm do wrong?


Kyle, thank you for explanation -E option

73! UT4UAZ

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:01 AM, KD9GN <kd9gn at lolling.org> wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 05:13 AM, Adam Nielsen wrote:
>>>
>>> Correct on the offset.  -E is something else entirely though.
>>
>>
>> Very interesting!  Thanks for the explanation.
>>
>> I had been wondering whether it was related to the new librtlsdr code
>> which appears to use a non-zero IF with the E4000 to avoid the centre spike,
>> so it's good to know what it's really for.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adam.
>>
>
> I am not sure if this helps anyone at all but I was playing around with the
> command line options available with rtl_fm while trying to listen to my
> favorite local FM Broadcast radio station and had pretty good audio results
> with this ....
>
> rtl_fm -f 88.9e6 -N -s 170e3 -o 4 -A -r 32e3 -l 0 - | play -t raw -r 32k -e
> signed-integer -b 16 -c 1 -V1 -
>
> as you probably already know, when you run rtl_fm without any options you
> get a list of all of the command line switches as well as some example
> commands.
>
> I couldn't tell much difference between using the -A option or not using it.
>
> By the way, I am using an eZcap 668 (E4000/rtl2832u)
>
> Hope this helps.
> 73 - Dave
> KD9GN
>
>



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