radio support

**mutilator** · 06-22-2004, 01:21 AM

any plans to support more radios? like mabe support radiator or something? or the ability to load radio dlls?

tom.

**SilVert** · 06-30-2004, 10:56 AM

? please explain?

are you talking abotu extra hardware or other software?

**phat_bastard** · 06-30-2004, 01:50 PM

We've thought quite a lot about adding radios and tv tuner / capture cards. The problem is there are so many different chipsets / drivers to deal with, and everyone has a different one or would like some obscure feature of company x's software implemented.

In retrospect I think the best direction to move with this would be to narrow down the two or three most popular of each device that people are requesting support for, and go that direction. Also, free hardware samples can go a long way towards getting a device supported. We don't see much along the lines of donations, so most of the hardware support we implement is funded from our beer money. :-( Did I mention how much I love good beer?

**veetid** · 06-30-2004, 02:57 PM

just support radiator and that will cover most of the cards people want...

**SilVert** · 06-30-2004, 03:29 PM

lol...

just a quick question.. does DLink even make a FM Modulator anymore? i went on their website but have had some problems finding one...

and who makes this "radiator"

**phat_bastard** · 06-30-2004, 03:33 PM

That might be a good thing, we'll look into it. Too bad it doesn't support any AM capable tuners.

**antimatter** · 06-30-2004, 03:35 PM

It supports the Radioman... which is AM/FM but the software radiator just doesn't have a button to switch to AM

**SilVert** · 06-30-2004, 03:45 PM

bah, who uses AM anymore

**phat_bastard** · 07-01-2004, 09:57 AM

You'd be suprised at how many requests we've had for a supported AM tuner. Personally I'd like AM so I can listen to Cardinal's baseball on the local talk radio (it's not broadcast on any FM stations). Pretty sad how we've got XM support and hundreds of channels of supposed digital audio broadcasts, and I'd rather listen to Mike Shannon get intoxicated in static-plagued mono over the course of 9 innings.

**SilVert** · 07-01-2004, 12:17 PM

lol

here in DC we have a FM station for the redskins.. and if for some reason somebody wants to listen to baseball(sorry, id rather watch/listen to golf lol) we haev a sports talk channel(i think 98.0 or something)

the AM stations here are decent but alot of umm, alternative music(aka latin, latin, more latin, NPR, opera and stuff)