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The RF Decoders, Tools Suite & Export Tool are bundled into one easy to use release.

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Read The Readme For Basic Use

Dependencies

Microsoft Visual C++ 2022 Redistributable to be installed (Often already installed by other apps)

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GNU Radio Companion

Quality of Life Improvements

Setting .tbc files to always open with ld-analyse via right click --> open with then at the bottom look for anouther app on this PC then after browsing to ld-analyse.exe in your decode or ld-tools folder always use this app to open .tbc files and your done!

Usage

Windows Terminal is the quickest way, to have it always open as CMD go into settings --> default profile --> command prompt. then right click and open in terminal inside the decode directory.

You can also use CMD Command Prompt / Powershell directly and just cd to the directory.

Once your inside decode folder and run decode.exe followed by a space with the vhs / ld / cvbs for the respective decoders.

Options are vhs, ld, cvbs, hifi

Example:

decode.exe vhs --frequency 16 --system pal family-cut-16msps-8bit.flac Windows-Test-Decode-2023

NOTE

Commands are all the same as Linux all normal docs apply for usage and handling.

Exporting Video

tbc-video-export.exe Input.tbc

Now handles all of this and is part of the Standard Export Guide

ld-decode / cvbs-decode - Native Export via ld-chroma-decoder.exe will be intergrated into tbc-video-export at some point.

Compressing FM RF Captures

There is two ld-compress scripts ld-compress.bat & ld-compress-nvidia-gpu

These 2 take DomesDayDuplicator 10-bit packed 40msps captures to 16-bit FLAC compressed files from 2.8GB to 625MB per min +- a few MB.

There is also CXADC Compression Scripts

Issues & Level of Support

Windows builds are fully working to decode video, extract VBI data with ld-process-vbi inspect with ld-analyse and even playback the TBC files with the FL2K USB 3.0 adapters. HiFi-Decode in the windows builds is a work in progress, RTLSDR decode is universsally supported.

ld-decode (LaserDiscs)

• Capture (Via DdD)
• Decoding
• Video Export

NOTE RF capture is standardised around the DomesDayDuplicator (DdD) and its windows app all core tools required is fully working.

NOTE Some users might have slight RF drop issues on some builds of windows with the DdD.

cvbs-decode (Composite Video)

• Capture (CXADC - Linux USB Live Install)
• Decoding
• Video Export

Same as ld-decode in terms of one signal to one TBC file, however capture is only standardised with the CX Cards so SDR/ADC units with 28msps+ need to be vetted for windows side capture, but capture can be done today via Linux Live install.

Note! DomesDayDuplicator (Rev 3) does not work for CVBS capture.

vhs-decode (Tape Media)

• Capture (Via DdD)
• Decoding
• Video Export

ld-chroma-decoder.exe / FFmpeg Command can export B/W Luma full-frame or active area directly.

Composite formats like SMPTE 1" Type C are 1 TBC file however.

hifi-decode

Note there is RTLSDR Decode & HiFi-Decode

• Capture (DdD/RTL-SDR)
• Decoding to Audio (GNURadio/WSL2)

HiFi-Decode is intergrated into the windows build now but not fully tweaked yet.

Capture can be done with GNURadio/RTLSDR and hifi-decode can be used in WSL2, or you can install dependencys manually if the current build is not working.

Install FFmpeg/SoX/FLAC inside windows

These commands will install these in PATH so the tools are available system-wide.

Open a PowerShell Terminal as administrator.

Install Choco (chocolatey package manager)

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Then you can install the following system-wide without any hassle.

Install FFmpeg

choco install ffmpeg

Install FLAC

choco install flac

Install SoX

choco install sox.portable