librtlsdr VS dsd

Download the https://github.com/rtlsdrblog/rtl-sdr-blog or https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr version instead. Even try both, since there may be differences.

Give https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr a try?

I should have mentioned, I'm using this fork of the librtlsdr library, which contains a slightly different version of rtl_power with some extra features, and apparently the "-D" option is treated differently in the version I'm using. The forked version allows you to set a specific branch using the "-D" option, as described below:

There are a few variations of librtlsdr, f.e. this fork; https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr which adds features that aren't available in the version used in most Linux distributions. This adds some extra features and output that are really useful (most notably, regular output of max, min, mean power levels and noise floor). It also has some extra functions to fine tune signals.

Linux, librtlsdr and this port of DSD. FWIW, this port of DSD is newer and also has a Windows binary.

Next I moved onto try feeding the output of rtl_sdr (from https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr) to nrsc5 and that worked well!

You have an older librtlsdr; I'm using the GitHub version, which adds extra features; https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr

Thank you for your reply, I have tried it with the 'static' from the official GitHub https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr/releases , but the error remains? Do you mean an even newer version?

github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr may be worthy to check out.

Depends what version of DSD. The port I use tells you what type of data is being received (not all DMR transmissions carry voice data).

Linux, librtlsdr and this port of DSD. FWIW, this port of DSD is newer and also has a Windows binary.

In Linux, I use this particular port of DSD - this can be piped into from GQRX, rtl_fm+sox, SDR# or any other SDR software that can output the audio of said signal as raw, 44KHz PCM unsigned audio (mono).

I'd personally use this fork of DSD, has better TG/CC/DMR ID output... https://github.com/LouisErigHerve/dsd

I use this particular fork; https://github.com/LouisErigHerve/dsd as it has better output and supports dPMR decoder.

I personally prefer This DSD client

DMR, dPMR, Fusion and more with dsd

Oh I'm not on about SDR# tools, on about DSD from GitHub; https://github.com/LouisErigHerve/dsd (also supports digital encryption on PMR446). I don't use windows.