DABlin is a DAB and DAB+ receiver. It can play an audio service from a live digital radio transmission or from a previously stored ensemble recording, making it useful both for everyday listening and for examining captured DAB material.
There are console and GTK interfaces. The graphical version adds support for broadcast data applications alongside the selected audio service, while the command-line program is useful in scripts and processing pipelines.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Receives both DAB and DAB+ audio services.
- Supports MP2 audio used by traditional DAB services.
- Supports AAC-LC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2 used by DAB+ services.
- Can play services from live DAB transmissions.
- Reads stored ETI-NI ensemble recordings.
- Supports EDI AF input carrying ETI data.
- Offers separate console and GTK graphical interfaces.
- GTK interface displays Dynamic Label information transmitted with a service.
- Supports MOT Slideshow images in the graphical interface.
- Uses SDL for normal decoded audio playback.
- Decoded audio can instead be written as raw PCM for further processing.
- PCM output can be passed to other software such as a streaming server.
- Offers alternative AAC decoding support for DAB+ services.
- Suitable for use with receiver software that supplies a live DAB ensemble stream.
- Can be used without a graphical environment when only decoding or audio output is required.
Website: github.com/Opendigitalradio/dablin
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Developer: Opendigitalradio
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
DABlin is written in C++ and C. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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