[V3tv-developer] FM-reception with TV tuner on PAL-version?

[Joergen P. <ra...@pi...>]

Yo!

When I first bought my Voodoo3 3500 TV, I felt a little disappointed with
the fact, that the PAL version doesn't have a FM tuner. Not any more!

I finally got around to try the drivers. They loaded fine, and I started
up KWinTV to test if I would get a picture. No picture, only stripes :-(
I don't know what's wrong, could be KWinTV does something the driver
doesn't expect yet???

Now comes the interesting part: Since it's possible to set arbitrary
tuner frequencies in KWinTV, I just _had_ to try to set somewhere in the
FM radio range...and right now I'm listening to a local FM radio station
called "Radio Nova" with my Voodoo card _without_ any FM tuner! Pretty
strange, huh!

The frequencies are all off by 10-15 MHz, and I can't find all the FM
stations that should be available, so somewhere there's a couple of bits
lost. And the sound comes out in mono, of course (no NICAM there) and I 
need to crank up the volume, but the reception is actually better than my
20-year-old FM-receiver!

Can anyone else confirm this, or is my card just acting weird? If this
works on all PAL-versions then I could look into the possibility of
writing a FM-tuner application for the PAL version. I wonder what 3Dfx has
to say about this :-)
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