I was wondering if they are able to be ran on Windows
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There's a thread here at RR about that very thing:
http://forums.radioreference.com/so...-virtualbox-project-run-op25-windows-7-a.html
The problem is while the software itself can easily run in a virtual machine (the guest OS being Linux) on the host OS which is Windows, the problem comes from the audio subsystem which just can't produce good quality audio. Now, OP25 does sound fantastic, it really does, when it's running on a native bare metal installation of Linux meaning it's installed directly on the actual computer and not virtualized.
But whenever it's run in a virtual machine, even on some really powerful hardware with high end quad core processors with tons of RAM and even SSD storage for fast data transfers, the audio is still basically crap because of how the virtualized sound card drivers handle the latency.
In other words, yes OP25 will run but the audio/sound it produces when run in a virtual machine isn't worth the effort. You'll need to do a dual boot situation so Linux and OP25 can run on the bare metal hardware or use a dedicated machine just for OP25 itself.
And no, it doesn't matter if the host OS is XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or even 10 and it doesn't matter how powerful the PC is, in the end you won't be happy with the intermittent choppy and basically unreadable audio. There are solutions on Windows for P25 Phase I like DSD or DSD+, and hopefully at some point DSD+ will be able to add P25 Phase II decoding but we'll just have to wait and see.
Hope this helps.
http://forums.radioreference.com/so...-virtualbox-project-run-op25-windows-7-a.html
The problem is while the software itself can easily run in a virtual machine (the guest OS being Linux) on the host OS which is Windows, the problem comes from the audio subsystem which just can't produce good quality audio. Now, OP25 does sound fantastic, it really does, when it's running on a native bare metal installation of Linux meaning it's installed directly on the actual computer and not virtualized.
But whenever it's run in a virtual machine, even on some really powerful hardware with high end quad core processors with tons of RAM and even SSD storage for fast data transfers, the audio is still basically crap because of how the virtualized sound card drivers handle the latency.
In other words, yes OP25 will run but the audio/sound it produces when run in a virtual machine isn't worth the effort. You'll need to do a dual boot situation so Linux and OP25 can run on the bare metal hardware or use a dedicated machine just for OP25 itself.
And no, it doesn't matter if the host OS is XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or even 10 and it doesn't matter how powerful the PC is, in the end you won't be happy with the intermittent choppy and basically unreadable audio. There are solutions on Windows for P25 Phase I like DSD or DSD+, and hopefully at some point DSD+ will be able to add P25 Phase II decoding but we'll just have to wait and see.
Hope this helps.
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