Okay, I’ve hit a dead end. Downloaded Dream 2.2, and unzipped into a folder I named dream under Program Files (x86). Found and installed the missing wpcap.dll and packet.dll. Got a not entirely expected “no Qt platform plugin could be initialised” message. Tried what was recommended in this web page, http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=748&page=21
both method 1 and 2, using copies of qwindows.dll I found elsewhere in my PC, but no nice. Anybody else banged there head against this and successfully broken through? I’m almost out of ideas…
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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If you figure it out I'd love to hear what you found. I spent days trying to get it to work - even tried compiling it. No cigar. QT5 is a huge headache. Sure wish the original Fraunhofer DRM Software radio was still supported and upgradeable. It decoded weaker signals than Dream. Hope the authors get this figured out soon.
Thanks
Paul
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I want to help, but my pre-compiled DREAM software only works on Win10 platform and ONLY on my computer! Due to underlying DLL files, if I copy the exe file to other computers, it pop up those error messages: programe failed to start(0xc000007b)??
To be honest, from my experience, I can not find too much difference between DREAM ver2.1 and ver2.2. If you just want to upgrade to xHE-AAC support, I can give you the xHE-AAC patch and compile ver2.1 or earlier versions locally, which is much simpler and works on win7 platform.
Last edit: zhongfanyang 2020-05-08
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To make xHE-AAC work on 2.1, you have to compile 2.1 over your platform. Did you have any success with that version? On top of that, the FDK library also needs to be compiled locally.
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My 2.1.1 version works except for xHE-AAC although it occasionally crashes for no apparent reason. As far as the FDK library can you explain a little more. Where do you get the files you used and how did you compile them? Then, do you just place it in the Dream folder? There is a "14 line fix for xHE-AAC" shown in one of the other posts. Where is it inserted or what does it replace? I've seen several FDK files and -AAC files in several places but dont know which to use. The more I delve into this the more confused I get. Can I try your patch?
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My source code for xHE-AAC is base on 2.1.1, and audio decoder is solely dependent on FDK(so FAAD is not needed). If you like to test on your platform, you can send me your email address via PM. Just copy and overwrite to your source files in your project , build and there you go.
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This is my first time installing Dream on anything. I would prefer using 2.2 because I understand you do not have to download, compile, etc. the decoding software. (faad2_drm.dll). If that still has to be done, screw it, I'll try 2.1. Might have to anyways if I can't get this figured out.
(Not a whole lot of DRM shortwave coming over for me to listen to anyways, but thought this would give me something to do during stay-at-home.)
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Thank you very much for the work you've done on this. I'm going to try
one last time to see if I can do it the way listed in the forum (if I
can get a hand from the QT forum), if I strike out on that I'll grab
your file and give it a go, and get back to you on the results. Are you
submitting to the team at Dream for inclusion? Perhaps you are one of
them and I'm dense.
I am not part of the team who developed DReaM, just a developer who is stubborn (and maybe a bit masochist) enough to fight with this stuff to make a build. I didn't modify any of the source (yet), just the dream.pro file (to add include paths and change versions of libraries).
It is a pain to build and I do not have an automated way to build it, I build the libraries manually and put them where the dream makefiles expect. The current build is apparently VS2019. I am going to try to recreate it in VS2015 (for Windows 7 compatiblity).
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I released an update last night. It might support as low as Windows 8.1 now (even though it was built on Windows 7 it won't run on it, lol). I also added more codec support (opus, speex and libsndfile). The build may also been slightly more stable as I realized some of the library SDKs were mismatched with the first release. Check the reddit post for the update. :)
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Okay, I’ve hit a dead end. Downloaded Dream 2.2, and unzipped into a folder I named dream under Program Files (x86). Found and installed the missing wpcap.dll and packet.dll. Got a not entirely expected “no Qt platform plugin could be initialised” message. Tried what was recommended in this web page,
http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=748&page=21
both method 1 and 2, using copies of qwindows.dll I found elsewhere in my PC, but no nice. Anybody else banged there head against this and successfully broken through? I’m almost out of ideas…
Thanks in advance,
Mike
If you figure it out I'd love to hear what you found. I spent days trying to get it to work - even tried compiling it. No cigar. QT5 is a huge headache. Sure wish the original Fraunhofer DRM Software radio was still supported and upgradeable. It decoded weaker signals than Dream. Hope the authors get this figured out soon.
Thanks
Paul
I want to help, but my pre-compiled DREAM software only works on Win10 platform and ONLY on my computer! Due to underlying DLL files, if I copy the exe file to other computers, it pop up those error messages: programe failed to start(0xc000007b)??
To be honest, from my experience, I can not find too much difference between DREAM ver2.1 and ver2.2. If you just want to upgrade to xHE-AAC support, I can give you the xHE-AAC patch and compile ver2.1 or earlier versions locally, which is much simpler and works on win7 platform.
Last edit: zhongfanyang 2020-05-08
I'm using Win10. If the patch works on 2.1 I love to try it.
To make xHE-AAC work on 2.1, you have to compile 2.1 over your platform. Did you have any success with that version? On top of that, the FDK library also needs to be compiled locally.
My 2.1.1 version works except for xHE-AAC although it occasionally crashes for no apparent reason. As far as the FDK library can you explain a little more. Where do you get the files you used and how did you compile them? Then, do you just place it in the Dream folder? There is a "14 line fix for xHE-AAC" shown in one of the other posts. Where is it inserted or what does it replace? I've seen several FDK files and -AAC files in several places but dont know which to use. The more I delve into this the more confused I get. Can I try your patch?
My source code for xHE-AAC is base on 2.1.1, and audio decoder is solely dependent on FDK(so FAAD is not needed). If you like to test on your platform, you can send me your email address via PM. Just copy and overwrite to your source files in your project , build and there you go.
Hi,
I have installed Dream 2.1.1 on win 7 32 bit . Every thing works fine except xHE-ACC cannot decode . Need help
thanks
Hello
Please help provide the code, thank you very much
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https://www.drmrx.org/forum/forum/drm-reception-project/general-topics/1580-how-often-does-dream-start-to-crash-when-decoding-xhe-aac https://www.drmrx.org/forum/forum/drm-reception-project/general-topics/1580-how-often-does-dream-start-to-crash-when-decoding-xhe-aac
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主 题：[drm:discussion] Re: Installing Dream 2.2 on Windows (I want my DRM!)
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Please help provide the code, thank you very much
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Installing Dream 2.2 on Windows (I want my DRM!) https://sourceforge.net/p/drm/discussion/general/thread/21b4467660/?limit=25&page=1#57cc/482a/518b/efe8/64b5
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你好: 有关xHE-AAC 问题你到以下链接自行查看，尤其是第九楼的帖子，基本的步骤都有详述。原因是源代码有误(bug)，现在只需一个C文件替换，重新编译即可。整个过程不超过2分钟。
https://www.drmrx.org/forum/forum/drm-reception-project/general-topics/1580-how-often-does-dream-start-to-crash-when-decoding-xhe-aac https://www.drmrx.org/forum/forum/drm-reception-project/general-topics/1580-how-often-does-dream-start-to-crash-when-decoding-xhe-aac
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主 题：[drm:discussion] Re: Installing Dream 2.2 on Windows (I want my DRM!)
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Please help provide the code, thank you very much
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你好，win版本确实是可以正常工作了，但是我按kiwi提供的方法编译了树莓派PI5B用的Dream2.2时，执行程序 就提示错误，并且播放本地XHE-AAC 文件也不行，这是啥情况呀，而且在openwebrx里调用dream2.2也不能正常工作，是否有方法解决，感谢帮助！
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按KIWI 改的14行代码后重新编译后，播放本地XHE-AAC 文件提示以下日志：
像这个错误一样的提示
https://sourceforge.net/p/drm/discussion/general/thread/90dc5df0a5/
FAAD从来没有说过支持xHE-AAC解码， 你自己臆想出来的吧！你得使用FDK-AAC
大佬，可以否帮分享下dream-2.1.1-svn808.tar.gz这个版本的xHE-AAC补丁源代码哈, 目前发现还是用2.1.1的稳定些，谢过大佬了！ 我邮箱 45908351@qq.com 微信：Gerd-737
(用2.2的编译后很多错误，AAC 都解码不了，确实是有问题，看来只能用2.1.1版的liunx版本)
我是在树莓派PI5B上来编译运行dream的，内核版本是：
linux Raspberrypi5 6.12.34+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.34-1+rpt1~bookworm (2025-06-26)aarch64
This is my first time installing Dream on anything. I would prefer using 2.2 because I understand you do not have to download, compile, etc. the decoding software. (faad2_drm.dll). If that still has to be done, screw it, I'll try 2.1. Might have to anyways if I can't get this figured out.
(Not a whole lot of DRM shortwave coming over for me to listen to anyways, but thought this would give me something to do during stay-at-home.)
how-to-receive-DRMhow-to-receive-DRM
See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/grp6m2/dream_v221_for_windows_with_xheaac_support/
On 5/27/2020 2:58 PM, zefie wrote:
Anyways thanks again for your efforts
Mike
I am not part of the team who developed DReaM, just a developer who is stubborn (and maybe a bit masochist) enough to fight with this stuff to make a build. I didn't modify any of the source (yet), just the dream.pro file (to add include paths and change versions of libraries).
It is a pain to build and I do not have an automated way to build it, I build the libraries manually and put them where the dream makefiles expect. The current build is apparently VS2019. I am going to try to recreate it in VS2015 (for Windows 7 compatiblity).
I released an update last night. It might support as low as Windows 8.1 now (even though it was built on Windows 7 it won't run on it, lol). I also added more codec support (opus, speex and libsndfile). The build may also been slightly more stable as I realized some of the library SDKs were mismatched with the first release. Check the reddit post for the update. :)
The reddit link has the same problem. Missing files.