noggin Can you elaborate? AC3 is an audio codec (it's another name for Dolby Digital) not a video codec?
Neil Duffy Yes.... a container with pass through video, but audio transcoded to dolby digital, ac3. I'd usually do with via ffmpeg cli, but not sure i can do that in TVH
Neil Duffy Oh wow, I've been hunting through the settings and docs, not seen anything like that, but it does sound like what I need. is it in the ppa releases, or do I need to build? Thanks Neil
Neil Duffy dpkg --list | grep tvh ii tvheadend 4.2.8-23~g74cdf3f16~bionic amd64 Tvheadend This was from https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/AptRepositories I've just looked at the output from ./configure --help and i see no mention of a 'spawn' profile I've searched for 'spawn' profiles and whilst I can see how it works (a nice shell script with ffmpeg, whatever inside), I cannot for the life of my, see how to make this an option available to me?
Saen Acro Neil Duffy wrote: > I've just looked at the output from ./configure --help and i see no mention of a 'spawn' profile It's embedded in code it's not a option. If you need help how to build latest version from git https://tvheadend.org/d/4492-manual-building-deb-packages-on-clean-ubuntu-or-other-debian-distros
Neil Duffy I'm a dev myself and I'm assuming there'd be a stream profile called 'spawn', where the option / argument would the binary plus args, or a shell script?
Neil Duffy Okay, I'll answer this myself... the 'spawn' feature is a part of the 'development' / unstable package.