sdrtrunk VS vhs-decode

This might be a big ask but I would love some better software for streaming trunked radio systems, I'm using sdrtrunk to stream to broadcastify, but it requires running a whole desktop environment and I feel like it's a ton of overhead for nothing

A second vote for SDRTrunk. I typically don't use a Windows computer, but fired one up to try DSD+, and man, that seemed like a lot of work to get something working that didn't decode traffic all that reliably.

SDR Trunk. It's java so it should work with any OS that supports JVM

Might wanna give SDRTrunk a whirl, I found it infinitely easier to set up than Unitrunker.

SDRtrunk, comes with builtin DMR and other protocol support

It's worth mentioning that for trunked P25 systems, the voice channels are often spread out so they span more spectrum than the ~2.4 MHz bandwidth of an RTL-SDR, so you won't be able to monitor both the control channel and any voice channels that are too far away from it. I have had reasonable success decoding my county's trunked P25 public safety system with sdrtrunk and two RTL-SDRs, but that still only covers about 4.8 MHz of spectrum, so there are still channels that can't be received. I am considering upgrading to an SDR dongle with wider receive bandwidth (some will do 6 or 10 MHz, IIRC) so that sdrtrunk will be able to receive the control channel and any voice channels, and stop telling me it couldn't receive something because it didn't have a tuner available.

No, I’m using an ADC modified for use with LD captures [0]. I did this because it’s cheaper in theory, although with the amount of time I’ve dumped into getting it working and keeping it working, the $500 or so for the Domesday Duplicator may well have been a better choice.

[0]: https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/wiki/CX-Cards#what-is...

For NTSC, also check out https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

I'm very happy to make the announcement we are migrating not only FM RF but as time permits many full demo sets (RF+TBC+Video+Audio) and full re-masters of tapes from our community and userbase of including but not limted to lost media.

Your going to want to use vhs-decode and FM RF capture standard video captrue has long been supassed in terms of archival and resulting decoded quality.

There's VHS-Decode as well, a small fork specific for VHS, Beta, Video8, etc.

Directly capturing the output, without converting it, will provide the best results. With modern open-source decoders, you can even connect directly to the drum head signal, and capture with no further loss than what occurred during recording.

Furthermore, there are projects that seek to preserve (as accurately as can be sorted out) all of the information that is contained on any given VHS tape, such as this one: https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

Have a look into VHS-Decode, arguably the best way as its true raw capture and also probably the cheapest for the quality you get, but requires soldering and basic Linux skills. I've mostly stopped bothering with other methods.

But here have a look at Some CVBS Samples the source TBC files can be easily viewed with ld-analyse with the ld-tools for windows too.

There is only one way in the 2020s VHS-Decode & HiFi-Decode