Can anyone explain why so many disable ffmpeg-static and various options?

D M

I didn't disable or enable any options when building tvheadend. I used ./Autobuild.sh, and that's it. I notice most people disable FFmpeg, HDHomeRun, and so on. Can anyone explain the significance of disabling these options? Is there a reason I should disable FFmpeg?

davep

If ffmpeg_static is enabled, the build procedure will download and compile an old version of ffmpeg (v4.4.1, latest is 5.1.2). I believe this was necessary at one time because newer ffmpeg versions were incompatible with Tvheadend.

Without ffmpeg_static, Tvheadend by default will look for libav (which is provided by the ffmpeg package installed from your distribution). If that is not installed then transcoding using ffmpeg will not be available.

Although some folks (including me!) use '--disable-ffmpeg' when building Tvheadend, that option is not in the configure script; the correct one is '--disable-libav'.

Turning off the various other options is mainly about housekeeping, reducing the build time and size of the binary.

Jonas Lang

It’s purely a matter of choice. I don’t need HD Homerun for example so I disable it. No unnecessary clutter. Ffmpeg static may include libraries that the user doesn’t require so they are free to build whatever package they choose. Other options in the build process may cause issues for certain users so again they are free to disable them. Using the following build method appears to give you the most freedom of all as you are compiling manually

cd /tmp mkdir -p makepkg cd makepkg git clone https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git cd tvheadend echo "LANGUAGES_ALL = en_GB" > Makefile.common ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --enable-ffmpeg_static \ --disable-ffmpeg make -j3 make install

davep

Apologies. Tvheadend is not compatible with ffmpeg v5 - see https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/pull/1460. Fortunately most distributions (including Debian and Ubuntu but not Arch) are still including v4.

D M

Jonas Lang wrote:
> It’s purely a matter of choice. I don’t need HD Homerun for example so I disable it. No unnecessary clutter. Ffmpeg static may include libraries that the user doesn’t require so they are free to build whatever package they choose. Other options in the build process may cause issues for certain users so again they are free to disable them. Using the following build method appears to give you the most freedom of all as you are compiling manually
>

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Thanks for the update. I decided to stick with the following. DIsabling ffmpeg doesn't work for me. Is there a way to build just for a specific language?


BUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA="--disable-dvbscan --disable-hdhomerun_client --disable-hdhomerun_static --disable-linuxdvb --disable-satip_server --disable-satip_client" ./Autobuild.sh -t bullseye-amd64

Jonas Lang

Are you talking about the web UI. Something like this

webui LANGUAGES="bg cs da de en_US en_GB es et fa fi fr he hr hu it lv nl pl pt ru sv uk"