TVH compiled-no stream profile VP9 or H265 available

Jonas Lang · 2023-05-03T17:24:45+00:00

I just purchased an HP Elitedesk with Kaby Lake processor with Intel HD 630. It's running Ubuntu 22.04 lts with a locally compiled TVH 4.3-2120~g18effa8ad an...

Saen Acro

Accelerate building by this script.
https://tvheadend.org/d/4492-manual-building-deb-packages-on-clean-ubuntu-or-other-debian-distros#Automated-build-script

Jonas Lang

saen acro wrote:
> Accelerate building by this script.

> https://tvheadend.org/d/4492-manual-building-deb-packages-on-clean-ubuntu-or-other-debian-distros#Automated-build-script

What do you mean here by “accelerate building by this script”

ukn_unknown

Let's start with easy stuff: make sure 'hts' user has access to video render. From https://tvheadend.org/d/8186-tvheadend-build-and-install-on-lubuntu-20-04-64bit-with-igpu-8-for-gpu-transcoding?r=48662#message-48662 Follow the part:
!hts.png!

Restart the server and check if you can decode with VAAPI.

Enable GuC is a little more complicated task.
BTW: what CPU do you have? I might have gave you some wrong info ... You might have iGPU 9.5 (not iGPU 11).

Saen Acro

Jonas Lang wrote:
> saen acro wrote:
> > Accelerate building by this script.
> > https://tvheadend.org/d/4492-manual-building-deb-packages-on-clean-ubuntu-or-other-debian-distros#Automated-build-script >

> What do you mean here by “accelerate building by this script”

By no need to type long command on prompt.

Also build log created.

Read article.

Jonas Lang

Ukn Unknown wrote:
> Let's start with easy stuff: make sure 'hts' user has access to video render. From https://tvheadend.org/d/8186-tvheadend-build-and-install-on-lubuntu-20-04-64bit-with-igpu-8-for-gpu-transcoding?r=48662#message-48662 > Follow the part:
> !hts.png!
> Restart the server and check if you can decode with VAAPI.
>
> Enable GuC is a little more complicated task.

> BTW: what CPU do you have? I might have gave you some wrong info ... You might have iGPU 9.5 (not iGPU 11).

Just before I get into changing anything here’s the full spec on the PC I’m using

https://support.hp.com/ie-en/document/c05369814

I’m using the built in Intel HD 630 graphics for this. Could you have a look at the spec and let me know what you think is the best direction to go with this. It’s the i5 version of CPU.

Thanks again.

ukn_unknown

Your CPU has iGPU 9.5 (Intel names it iGPU 9): https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-intel_core_i5_7500 scroll down to internal graphics and hw codec support.
Instructions above should be used with any CPU type ... are related to OS.
with 24 EU and 192 Shaders ... probably you can transcode h264->hevc 1080 25 (decent quality).
BTW: I always use "./Autobuild.sh" to build (on all my intel platforms).

Jonas Lang

I’m using the Digibit Twin Sat>IP tuner and Kodi as a front end. Kodi refused to play any of the HEVC UHD demo channels on Astra 28.2 with hardware acceleration enabled for VAAPI HEVC in the settings section so I assumed my available profiles in TVH was the problem. With VAAPI HEVC disabled the software takes over and plays the TS streams.

As an experiment I installed Next PVR. Strangely enough this plays the HEVC UHD demo channels with VAAPI HEVC hardware acceleration enabled. I confirmed this by running intel_gpu_top.

This really is puzzling now.

Saen Acro

It's problem of Kodi or HTSP PVR plug-in in Kodi.
It was discussed before.
You can record this channel with TVH and play it with Kodi,
if no problem with this then
https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts

Jonas Lang

saen acro wrote:
> It's problem of Kodi or HTSP PVR plug-in in Kodi.
> It was discussed before.
> You can record this channel with TVH and play it with Kodi,
> if no problem with this then

> https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts

Yes I can record this transport stream and it will play in Kodi.

The problem does appear to lie with the Kodi PVR-HTS add on. I installed the latest PVR-HTS add on from the XBMC PPA which I added to Ubuntu.

Why would I want to compile this add on. Does the one from the XBMC PPA not work.

Saen Acro

Problem is in addon itself.

Addon do not send some info to Kodi or send it incorrectly.

Where I say something to compile it,
just send info how to contact creators of it.

Jonas Lang

saen acro wrote:
> Problem is in addon itself.
> Addon do not send some info to Kodi or send it incorrectly.
>
> Where I say something to compile it,

> just send info how to contact creators of it.

Yes I’ll report this behaviour to the add on maintainer but I don’t expect much of a response.

Strangely using LibreELEC which has the TVH server and PVR HTS packaged this behaviour is not shown. It works perfectly playing UHD Live TV.