ODR-DabMux

CRC-DabMux is the free open source DAB Multiplexer developed by Communication Research Center (CRC) from Canada. It is a command line tool.

CRC have stopped releasing new versions, and the development now continues on GitHub with releases available on http://mpb.li

More information

Description can be found on http://mmbtools.crc.ca/content/view/39/65/

The last CRC version published is version 0.3.0.4

Build information for CRC-DABMUX-0.3.0.4-mpb

Prerequisites

You will need boost at least version 1.42. The one from your distribution is probably fine, and if you have installed GNURadio or UHD, you will already have it.

If you want to use the zeromq inputs or outputs, you need a recent (4.0.3 is best) version of ZeroMQ. It is probably preferred to install it from source:

wget http://download.zeromq.org/zeromq-4.0.3.tar.gz
cd zeromq-4.0.3
./configure
make
sudo make install

This will install it into /usr/local

CRC-DabMux also depends on libfec from Phil Karn. On 64-bit machines, the original libfec doesn't compile (" fec.h:267: Error: bad register name `%dil' "). A patched version that compiles on x86_64 (and even on ARM) is available on GitHub (.zip)

Compilation

Once the prerequisites are installed, do

./configure --with-debug-malloc=no --disable-debug --enable-input-zeromq --enable-output-zeromq
make
sudo make install

or, if you don't have zeromq:

./configure --with-debug-malloc=no --disable-debug
make
sudo make install

then you can execute, as a test

crc-dabmux -h

When building, be careful to disable debugging, otherwise there will be lot of wasted CPU usage.

Compilation from the git repository

If you cloned the git repository, you might need to call

./bootstrap.sh

to re-generate the autotools scripts and generate the ./configure script

After that, it's the same as above

Patch to increase page size

Some glitches have been noticed on some machines. They are due to underruns in the FIFO. This patch increases the buffer sizes in the mux. wrning, this patch will also increase the delay. To apply it use, the patch command. (for CRC-DabMux <=0.3.0.4)

--- src/dabInputFifo.cpp.org	2011-09-27 10:08:35.202323204 -0400
+++ src/dabInputFifo.cpp	2011-09-27 10:13:57.638315966 -0400
@@ -169,11 +169,12 @@
     if (data->buffer != NULL) {
         delete data->buffer;
     }
-    if (size == 0) {
-        size = 1024;
-    }
-    data->buffer = new unsigned char[size * 16];
     data->maxSize = size * 16;
+    int minSize = 2*getpagesize();
+    while (data->maxSize < minSize) {
+        data->maxSize += size;
+    }
+    data->buffer = new unsigned char[data->maxSize];
 #ifdef _WIN32
     ReleaseSemaphore(data->semBuffer, 1, NULL);
 #else

See the manpage for more info:

• CRC-DabMux man page