[gst-devel] FM radio tuner element

[Alexey Chernov]

Hello,

a couple of weeks ago I posted a question concerning playing FM radio signal 
using v4l2src gstreamer element. Thiago Sousa Santos suggested me radiobin 
element and Stefan Kost gave an advice how to use v4l2src itself.

Unfortunately during my experiments I had no success in tuning to stations 
using v4l2src or v4lsrc. Perhaps it's because /dev/videoX and /dev/radioX are 
actually different tuners and it's not possible to set /dev/radioX as a device 
for v4l2src (it can't be recognized as GstTuner). Radiobin element works ok. 
And finally I decided to write new element for GStreamer on top of it to make 
it almost like v4l2src but for FM radio. I've added some code, make it 
implement GstTuner interface. And I want to show it here. I didn't upload the 
code to any repository yet, it can be downloaded here as tarball:

http://downmusic.ru/radiosrc.tar.bz2

Maybe GStreamer maintainers would find it useful to include this element to 
gstreamer-plugins in any form because now plugins really lack of possibility 
to receive FM radio. If I need to prepare or format code some way I'll do it. 
If it's not possible to include the element to gstreamer-plugins I'll upload 
code to some site as a project in hope all the interested people can use it.

Again, thanks to everyone for your help

Alexey Chernov