Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-08 Thread Biju Ravindran
Hi John, For audio rate systems, Fons (Cced..) has a proposed architecture. GNU Radio Audio sink (libalsa) --> "default" ALSA device (loopback) --> Pulseaudio (using libalsa) --> actual audio hardware For Pulseaudio, a Jack backend exists, so you could configure your Pulse audio to do Audio Sink

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-07 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi Biju -- I was mainly asking whether Benny had a proof of concept for his suggested approach. I understand about resamplers. The thought in my mind, though I don't know if I have the skills to implement it, is a block placed immediately before the audio sink that provides a buffer and mea

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-07 Thread Biju Ravindran
Hi John, I'm not aware of any gnu radio blocks available for audio synchronization. However, you're asking about resampling: Well, resamplers do exist :) ! We've got a totally different problem, though: To resample properly, you'd need to know (or better: estimate) the clock error. On Wed, Ju

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi Benny -- As I mentioned in another message, I'm struggling with the RF-audio interface now. Do you have any example code for your suggestion that I might play with (in my mind, the idea would be an "audio synchronizer" block that would take input at the nominal audio rate and output at the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I don't have a view whether an audio synchronizer (is that the right term?) is appropriate for GSoC, but it's a problem that's biting me right now. I'm doing a multi-channel nbfm receiver with a polyphase channelizer that feeds a bunch of power squelch/nbfm demod blocks, with the audio streams

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-06 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi ben, I love this topic of how to match hardware clocks just as much as you do, but I personally think that solving the two-clock problem between an SDR receiver and an audio device might be just a tiny bit out of scope of a GSoC project on a broadcast standard implementation. Also, it's not pa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC 17] DAB: updates of the week

2017-06-06 Thread Benny Alexandar
Hi Luca, Nice to see your progress so far. Once you have the DAB receiver audio listening in place, I would suggest to have an audio synchronization for continuous playback without any buffer overflow or under-runs. DAB+ audio super frame length is 120ms according to DAB+ standard (ETSI TS 102 5