Has Anyone cracked the digital Radio software for Digital Radio Mondial? (DRM)
 

The protocol is public. There is code (under GPL license) available at:
http://drm.sourceforge.net/

The only catch with the above is that they only provide the source. It would
take hours and hours to put together the development environment, compile
the libraries, and compile the executable. I know because I tried - and
failed. I had the necessary Visual Studio environment, but they also assume
that you own another third party tool called Trolltech QT 2.x which is not
free.



"NE1" wrote in message
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Has Anyone cracked the digital Radio software for Digital Radio
Mondial? (DRM)

Gavin Jacobs wrote:

The protocol is public. There is code (under GPL license) available at:
http://drm.sourceforge.net/

The only catch with the above is that they only provide the source. It
would take hours and hours to put together the development environment,
compile the libraries, and compile the executable. I know because I tried
- and failed. I had the necessary Visual Studio environment, but they also
assume that you own another third party tool called Trolltech QT 2.x which
is not free.

QT is free (as in GPL) for all OSs except windows. Very nice toolkit.

Web site's at: http://www.trolltech.com/

-Andrew

--
Andrew Stanley-Jones | "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
EE, LongEz N87KJ | -- Walt Disney

"ASJ" wrote in message
...
Gavin Jacobs wrote:

The protocol is public. There is code (under GPL license) available at:
http://drm.sourceforge.net/

The only catch with the above is that they only provide the source. It
would take hours and hours to put together the development environment,
compile the libraries, and compile the executable. I know because I
tried
- and failed. I had the necessary Visual Studio environment, but they
also
assume that you own another third party tool called Trolltech QT 2.x
which
is not free.

QT is free (as in GPL) for all OSs except windows. Very nice toolkit.

Web site's at: http://www.trolltech.com/

-Andrew


Thanks for the clarification; but since I use a Windows environment, it's
not free for me.

But, now I am wondering if it would be possible (and legal) for another user
to process the QT files and post the intermediate files? Does that make
sense?

Actually, there's a totally free, compiled version for Windows
available. It can be downloaded from:

http://home.t-online.de/home/sat-ser...at/DRM/DRM.htm

Look for "compiled DREAM software". Please be aware that the DREAM
software is no where near as good at decoding DRM as the Merlin (paid)
software is. However, with a strong station, it does give you some
idea of what DRM is capable of. I myself paid the 60 Euros for the
Merlin software and I think that it's worth every penny.

I whole-heartedly concurr. The Merlin software is much better than Dream.

"Fredric J. Einstein" wrote in message
s.com...
Actually, there's a totally free, compiled version for Windows
available. It can be downloaded from:

http://home.t-online.de/home/sat-ser...at/DRM/DRM.htm

Look for "compiled DREAM software". Please be aware that the DREAM
software is no where near as good at decoding DRM as the Merlin (paid)
software is. However, with a strong station, it does give you some
idea of what DRM is capable of. I myself paid the 60 Euros for the
Merlin software and I think that it's worth every penny.

And the WinRadio software is even better than Merlin's (same
performance as it is based on the same engine, but better user
rinterface with added recording functions):
http://www.winradio.com./home/g303-drm.htm


On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:42:20 -0500, "Robert Sillett"
wrote:

I whole-heartedly concurr. The Merlin software is much better than Dream.

"Fredric J. Einstein" wrote in message
ws.com...
Actually, there's a totally free, compiled version for Windows
available. It can be downloaded from:

http://home.t-online.de/home/sat-ser...at/DRM/DRM.htm

Look for "compiled DREAM software". Please be aware that the DREAM
software is no where near as good at decoding DRM as the Merlin (paid)
software is. However, with a strong station, it does give you some
idea of what DRM is capable of. I myself paid the 60 Euros for the
Merlin software and I think that it's worth every penny.