[ivtv-users] Why doesn't the command ivtv-radio -j return?

[Roman Hausner]

Is there any information on this or anyone around who can answer this?

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Roman Hausner <roman.hausner at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is there some detailed documentation on the ivtv* commands?
> For example, why does the command to tune the tv,
>   ivtv-tune -f somefreq
> return immediately, but the command to tune the radio,
>   ivtv-radio -f somefreq -f
> does not? It keeps running until I terminate it with Ctrl-C
> However the radio (on /dev/radio0) stays tuned correctly after I
> terminated the command with Ctrl-C
>
> What does the ivtv-radio options -P and  -i do?
>
> I just want to set the frequency for the radio with a command that returns,
> just
> like with setting the frequency for the tv, because I want to run this
> command
> from a small GUI program. If the command does not return, the GUI program
> will lock up or will need to do odd things like killing the command.
>
>
>
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