Playing DRM Radio files on linux
No, not DRM as in the US law. By DRM radio I mean DRM as in "Digital Radio Mondiale", or digital radio below 30Mhz, i.e. the AM radio bands.
Let me first of all tell you what I'm trying to do; I have just recently bought a morphy richards radio which can recieve DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) transmissions, and it can easily be transferred to a PC as the radio has an unusual feature of being able to store radio to an SD card. I tried a few test recordings, connected a card reader to my PC with the SD card in it and mounted the SD card with no problems. However, the radio has saved the DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) files as ".drm" files - but just what is this file format? Mplayer can't seem to play them -- does Digital Radio Mondiale use some sort of AAC or MP4, and can it be played by linux? Thanks NB, Link to Digital Radio Mondiale - http://www.drm.org/ SP |
According to Wikipedia, the format is probably HE-AAC, but that's not guaranteed. Try using the file command on it and see what comes up.
If it is an AAC codec, you need the faad/faac libraries to play or convert them. |
Unfortunatly I think the file format is a propietary one used by the radio. Here is a link to a file I recorded though I have no idea of the format! I have the faac & faad libraries on my system. To date mplayer hasn't even managed to play this format!
Should anyone figure out the format, you should hear someone I believe speaking in german. Though no idea what they are saying! Some info on this DRM radio. Not sure if the file identified the file correctly though... Code:
bash-3.1$ file test.drm Mplayer; Code:
bash-3.1$ mplayer test.drm Code:
bash-3.1$ mpg321 test.drm Hex dump of the file in the zipfile, first few bytes.... Code:
00000000 49 44 33 03 00 00 00 00 00 1e 54 49 54 32 00 00 |ID3.......TIT2..| |
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