The Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) was invited by the European Broadcasting Union to demonstrate CRC's mmbTools open platforms for mobile broadcasting at IBC 2010. These demonstrations will be part EBU's exhibit on "Hybrid Radio" in Hall 10, Booth 10.D21. 

In the logical continuity of our CRC mmbTools and Openmokast works for DAB/DMB, we have integrated and developed new approaches and tools to foster the development of innovative hybrid FM-RDS Internet radio applications and services. Here is a list of CRC contributions for this event:

• CRC mmbTools software (DAB+ audio encoder, multiplexer and mobulator) fo the live on-site 10 Watts DAB transmission
• DAB to Wifi "repeater" running on the OMAP-based IGEPv2 hardware platform.
• Real-time FM and RDS software modulators based on GNU Radio and the universal software defined radio platform USRP
• Real-time FM and RDS reception on the USRP with GNU Radio RDS monitoring
• CRC's Open source RDS decoding software library
• CRC mmbTools Live CD which now includes all our FM-RDS tools in addition to our DAB tools
• Demonstration of DAB and FM-RDS on various Android Smartphones: G1, Nexus One, SE Xperia x10 mini,  
• New release of the CRC FM Radio Player App on the Android Market. This demo shows how an FM App could work on Android if  FM APIs were available to 3rd party developers. This App cannot receive FM audio on Android but it receives and decodes real-time RDS arriving from a wifi connection. An RDS server is required to stream RDS over wifi. The App decodes some ODA data like phone numbers and http links.
• Demonstration of CRC's “CELT over DAB” application. CELT is a royalty-free audio codec developed by the Xiph.Org foundation.

Contact: François Lefebvre
Email: francois.lefebvre@crc.gc.ca
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Personal blog: http://www.broadcasting20.org

For technical details, online and off-line tools, source code and downloads please visit our projects websites:

http://mmbtools.crc.gc.ca
http://www.openmokast.org