TVH update scripts

Nils Bittmann

Hi Guys,

I thought I could share my scripts to update TVH with you and have uploaded them to GitHub.

1. tvhbuild.sh is a script which checks if your git clone is up to date if not it will build TVH and write the latest version into a file called latest.txt

2. tvhupdater.sh will check the latest file against your currently installed version and update if outdated

These scripts are on of my very first bash scripts and might look a bit messy but they work fine so far

Any feedback would be appreciated

Git repo is https://github.com/nbittmann/tvhupdater

Please open the .sh file to set your paths to meet your environment

I'm currently running the build script via cronjob every night and can then update as I want but you should be able to run the updater via cron as well.

Thanks

Saen Acro

Use Autobuild.sh with is already in Git
https://tvheadend.org/d/2855-i386-builds?r=16784#message-16784

Nils Bittmann

Thanks Yes I'm actually using the auto build.sh but my script will check if git is up to date and only build if it's outdated which makes it perfect to have nightly build via cronjob

Michael Kongedam

@Nils

will this script enable transcoding?

/Kongedam

ProfYaffle

Only if you pass it a couple of extra options, e.g.

AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA="--enable-trace --enable-libffmpeg_static --enable-libx264" ./Autobuild.sh -t <target>

EDIT

There appears to be a place for this in Nils' build script as well.

Michael Kongedam

Hi Prof Yaffle

I thught I should use this command

AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA=--enable-libffmpeg_static ./Autobuild.sh -t precise-amd64

What does the "--enable-libx264" do?

ProfYaffle

I believe it's the difference between whatever h.264 support ffmpeg includes (or looks for on your system by searching for libx264) versus grabbing the current version of x264 'natively' and compiling it in as part of the static ffmpeg elements. Don't quote me on that, though.

Michael Kongedam

Do you know what I need to change in the scripts to make this work?
AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA="--enable-trace --enable-libffmpeg_static --enable-libx264" ./Autobuild.sh -t <target>

ProfYaffle

tvhbuild.sh, lines 27-29:

# TVH Autobuild flags for Transconding uncommt line to use and comment out second line #flag=AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA=--enable-libffmpeg_static flag=

... so there's a clue :)

You can just switch the two flag= lines, or try adding the --enable-libx264 option as well (and --enable-libx265 if you want to collect the full set).

Note that those are just the flags, so the equivalent of the AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA="...." bit in my command line, above (i.e. it doesn't include the <target> bit).