Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:35:18 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxtv Message-ID: <19990518213517.A10289@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905182033450.25906-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:37:51PM -0400 References: <19990518201014.A8289@ipass.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905182033450.25906-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey: |Well, the first thing that comes to mind is a line from Fxtv, the |app-defaults file: | |!Fxtv.remoteType: X10 | ! Remote control type (if present) | |There's one or two others. Do you think they all might trace from the |work you refer to below? Yes, that's the X-10 Mouse Remote. It stinks as a mouse-pass-through (it emits spurious mouse move/button events -- maybe an EM filtering problem), but if you stick it on it's own serial port (i.e. a separate one from the mouse), it works like a champ. It's not infrared either, so you can use it through walls (doesn't have to be line-of-sight). That doesn't buy you much as a TV remote, but since the support is in moused, you can write apps that allow you to control things on your computer using the remote control while you're in another room (without an infrared relay). |What's a good X10 card I can stick in my computer, and is there anything |readable I could find? This is *interesting*. Here's the URL: http://www.x10.com/products/x10_mk19a.htm No board to stick in your computer. Just a little radio receiver job to plug into an unused serial port. |OK, I'll do that on Friday evening, just after my last final. I did |pretty well on the one today, and decided to give myself the rest of the |day off to look at this neat stuff. Glad I did, this is great. Good luck with it. Just finished my last one last Tuesday. |One point, tho, the mute on fxtv works, but the volume slider doesn't. |My hardware, my configuration, or a bug? Well, could be fxtv hasn't been configured to point to the audio channel you've chosen to use. Line input is the default. The mute function mutes the audio at the TV board, not the soundcard, so it's not surprising that that works but the volume control doesn't (volume is adjusted on the soundcard). You probably want to tweak this resource: Fxtv.mixerChannel: line Set it to "cd" if you have your TV audio piped into the CD input of your soundcard. If you have it plugged into the microphone input (I've only heard of one person that's done this), then well, you'll need to patch the source. In tvaudio.c, change: Mixer_dev_id = SOUND_MIXER_LINE; Mixer_dev_mask = SOUND_MASK_LINE; to: Mixer_dev_id = SOUND_MIXER_MIC; Mixer_dev_mask = SOUND_MASK_MIC; and Fxtv.mixerChannel to line. Note that for testing, you can also set the mixer channel via command line. E.g. "fxtv -mixerChannel cd" Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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