From Marconi to DAB on Raspberry Pi
Federico Allegretti presented a DAB transmission solution based on the ODR-mmbTools at the Terni Maker Festival #TRMF17. Here are his Slides (in Italian). Many thanks to Federico for his presentation!
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ODR-DabMod gains support for the LimeSDR
The latest “next” version of ODR-DabMod can now use the SoapySDR library and drive the LimeSDR board. SoapySDR being a vendor-neutral library, it also supports other boards (i.e. HackRF). https://github.com/Opendigitalradio/ODR-DabMod/commits/next
ODR-DabMux v1.2.0 released
Hello all quite a few changes in the latest release of ODR-DabMux. Please see the Changelog.
Small-Scale DAB Setup Developed in Kaiserslautern
Several people from the Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation Rheinland-Pfalz (LMK) and from the University of Applied Sciences of Kaiserslautern have prepared a small transmitter setup based on the ODR-mmbTools. Immanuel Friedrichsen has recently published two repors (in german) describing the setup on the drm-radio-kl.eu website: Praxisberich Aufbau DAB Koffersender…
Two HSR Students Complete data-over-dab Bachelor Project
Tobias and Felix from the Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil have completed their Bachelor project on the topic of general-purpose data transmission over DAB, and their report is now public: https://eprints.hsr.ch/523/ The source code they wrote is available in the libdata repositories in the Opendigitalradio github. And example application to illustrate…
Reorganisation of FDK-AAC-DABplus
Hello all, up to now, the FDK-AAC-DABplus project contained four “things”: a patched FDK-AAC library libtoolame-dab the sources for the dabplus-enc tool mot-encoder This structure makes it difficult to follow updates happening in upstream FDK-AAC (and there are some interesting changes there that could improve audio quality!) and to contribute…
New Releases
Hello all, ODR-DabMux, ODR-DabMod and FDK-AAC-DABplus have been released to new versions today. ODR-DabMux has now become v1.0.0. The old carousel has been removed, some issues regarding EDI fixed, and ZeroMQ is now a mandatory dependency because of the ManagementServer. Now that version 1 is out, the goal is to…
FDK-AAC-DABplus release v0.8.0
FDK-AAC-DABplus has been released to version v0.8.0. The encoder in its new version 0.8.0 released today will now stop turning on the VLC audio compressor even if you didn’t ask it to, and allow you to turn on drift compensation when using libVLC, so as to compensate for slightly slow/fast…
FDK-AAC-DABplus release v0.7.4
FDK-AAC-DABplus has been released to version v0.7.4. dabplus-enc includes changes for libvlc settings (cache and audio compressor gain). Some issues have been fixed, and mono WAV files are now accepted. mot-encoder doesn-t add a border around images anymore, and ensures JPEGs are not using progressive encoding. It also strips useless…
ODR-mmbTools SFN enters production
After several weeks of tests we are delighted to announce the first production deployment of the ODR-mmbTools in Single Frequency Network operation. The SFN consists of two overlapping co-channel transmitters serving part of the city of London. The multiplex is operated by U.DAB. The multiplex launched on the 28th of…
