Possibility to listen to DAB+ multiplexes from Eutelsat 9B

[QuinceROMs]

I've been using DVB-S/S2 tuners for my PC for a long time, I mostly use the TBS 5927 now, although I also have the TBS 5580. I have three LNBs - Hot Bird, Astra 1, and Eutelsat 9B. I installed the latter with the EUMETCast service in mind (and obtained satellite imagery from there for a while), but it was ported to Hot Bird. There aren't many channels there, but it turned out that several UK DAB+ multiplexes were among them. The data is encoded in MPEG-TS, and extracting the data, converting it, and listening to the services requires some effort. My coding skills are poor; I managed to compile the eti-tools and DABlin packages on Windows, but the FAAD library doesn't work properly, and I can't listen to stations via SDL, let alone the GTK GUI. So I used WSL on Windows and it worked.

To receive the transponder and stream it via UDP and TCP, I use VMA Stream Reader. To listen, I use the following line: nc 192.168.1.167 6969 | ts2na -p 1062 -s 12 | na2ni | dablin -1 (ts2na receives data from a specific PID and strips 12 bytes, converts the data to ETI-NA, na2ni to ETI-NI). Instead of -1, you can also specify a specific radio station SID. Audio streams are mostly as HE-AAC, some of them as MP2.

And here's my idea. Would it be possible to add listening to satellite DAB/DAB+ multiplexes in Qt-DAB? The data stream contains data from three multiplexes, a list of radio services, RDS, and the current time (and likely something else, like slides). Providing the data stream via TCP/UDP would, of course, be up to the user. :)

Some links:

https://github.com/piratfm/eti-tools
https://github.com/Opendigitalradio/dablin
https://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/arqiva-national-dab-feeds-on-4-8°e.170781/
https://www.radiodns.uk/multiplexes
https://flysat.com/en/satellite/eutelsat-9b

[andimik]

@QuinceROMs

You already can listen to these feeds. Just use ODR-DabMod and export it to a fifo file and open this fifo file in Qt-DAB.

That's what I've doing for many many years.

[QuinceROMs]

Thank you, I wasn't aware of this project. I usually listen to local DAB+ multiplexes on RSPdx, but the satellite feed on 9B is new to me and I only recently became interested in it.