Tvheadend

Hardware transcoding isn't available for the Pi yet AFAIA. Although I've seen "Unable to parse option value "high"" before, please open an issue for it.

As I've said:
I have transcoding running flawlessly on a RPI 3 with LibreElec and a TVH Plugin from here: https://www.kodinerds.net/index.php/Thread/58252-LibreELEC-Tvheadend-mit-GPU-Transcoding/

But I'd like to have it running on bare raspbian...

Manuel 3 wrote:

As I've said:
I have transcoding running flawlessly on a RPI 3 with LibreElec and a TVH Plugin from here: https://www.kodinerds.net/index.php/Thread/58252-LibreELEC-Tvheadend-mit-GPU-Transcoding/

But I'd like to have it running on bare raspbian...

Thanks for the link, I'll look into this and get back to you, please bump this thread if I don't reply in a few days!

Thank you!

Here some more Info about the working TvH with Transcoding on LE:
HTS Tvheadend 4.2.6-7 ~ LibreELEC Tvh-addon v8.2.113

log when transcode starts:
2018-11-26 10:34:59.252 mpegts: 12692H in DVB-S Network - tuning on Montage Technology DS3000 #0 : DVB-S #0
2018-11-26 10:34:59.335 subscription: 004C: "HTTP" subscribing on channel "", weight: 100, adapter: "Montage Technology DS3000 #0 : DVB-S #0", network: "DVB-S Network", mux: "12692H", provider: "", service: "", profile="3G", hostname="10.0.58.6", username="", client="VLC/3.0.4 LibVLC/3.0.4"
2018-11-26 10:34:59.769 transcode: Could not find requestd lang [gem] in stream, using first one
2018-11-26 10:34:59.770 transcode: 0001: 1:MPEG2VIDEO 720x576 > H264 720x576 (h264_omx)
2018-11-26 10:34:59.770 transcode: 0001: 2:MPEG2AUDIO > Passthrough
2018-11-26 10:34:59.770 transcode: 0001: 3:MPEG2AUDIO > Passthrough
2018-11-26 10:34:59.770 transcode: 0001: 4:AC3 > Passthrough
2018-11-26 10:34:59.828 transcode: 0001: 1:MPEG2VIDEO 720x576 > H264 720x576 (h264_omx)
2018-11-26 10:34:59.828 transcode: 0001: 2:MPEG2AUDIO > Passthrough
2018-11-26 10:34:59.828 transcode: 0001: 3:MPEG2AUDIO > Passthrough
2018-11-26 10:34:59.828 transcode: 0001: 4:AC3 > Passthrough
2018-11-26 10:35:00.861 transcode: 0001: Using preset ultrafast
2018-11-26 10:35:00.874 libav: Using OMX.broadcom.video_encode
2018-11-26 10:35:06.695 subscription: 004C: "HTTP" unsubscribing from "", hostname="10.0.58.6", username="", client="VLC/3.0.4 LibVLC/3.0.4"

I can also give you remote Access to this Rpi LibreElec via VNC and access to TVH if needed.

Could you give me the build lines in About? it's under "toggle details".

Thanks.

Sure.

TvH 4.2.6 (working but on LibreElec):

Configure arguments:
  --host=armv7ve-libreelec-linux-gnueabi --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --disable-static --enable-shared --prefix=/usr --arch=arm --cpu=cortex-a7 --cc=/home/chewitt/LibreELEC.82-addons/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2-devel/toolchain/bin/armv7ve-libreelec-linux-gnueabi-gcc --disable-ffmpeg_static --disable-libfdkaac_static --disable-libopus_static --disable-libtheora --disable-libtheora_static --disable-libvorbis_static --disable-libvpx_static --disable-libx264_static --disable-libx265_static --enable-libav --enable-libfdkaac --enable-libopus --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --disable-libvpx --disable-libx265 --enable-avahi --enable-bundle --disable-dbus_1 --enable-dvbcsa --enable-dvben50221 --enable-hdhomerun_client --enable-hdhomerun_static --enable-epoll --enable-inotify --enable-pngquant --disable-libmfx_static --disable-nvenc --disable-uriparser --enable-tvhcsa --enable-trace --nowerror --disable-bintray_cache --python=/home/chewitt/LibreELEC.82-addons/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2-devel/toolchain/bin/python

Compiler:
  Using C compiler:                        ccache /home/chewitt/LibreELEC.82-addons/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2-devel/toolchain/bin/armv7ve-libreelec-linux-gnueabi-gcc
  Using C flags:                           -march=armv7ve -mabi=aapcs-linux -Wno-psabi -Wa,-mno-warn-deprecated -mcpu=cortex-a7 -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pipe -Os -flto -ffat-lto-objects  -I/home/chewitt/LibreELEC.82-addons/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2-devel/ffmpegx-3.4/.INSTALL_PKG/usr/local/include -I/home/chewitt/LibreELEC.82-addons/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2-devel/toolchain/armv7ve-libreelec-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/usr/include/iconv -L/home/chewitt/LibreELEC.82-addons/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2-devel/toolchain/armv7ve-libreelec-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/usr/lib/iconv
  Using LD flags:                          -march=armv7ve -mtune=cortex-a7 -Wl,--as-needed -fuse-ld=gold -fuse-linker-plugin -flto -L/home/chewitt/LibreELEC.82-addons/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2-devel/ffmpegx-3.4/.INSTALL_PKG/usr/local/lib -ldvbcsa -ldvben50221 -ldvbapi -lucsi
  Build for arch:                          arm

Binaries:
  Using PYTHON:                            /home/chewitt/LibreELEC.82-addons/build.LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2-devel/toolchain/bin/python
  Using GZIP:                              gzip
  Using BZIP2:                             bzip2

Options:
  pie                                      yes
  ccdebug                                  no
  cwc                                      yes
  capmt                                    yes
  constcw                                  yes
  linuxdvb                                 yes
  satip_server                             yes
  satip_client                             yes
  hdhomerun_client                         yes
  hdhomerun_static                         yes
  iptv                                     yes
  tsfile                                   yes
  dvbscan                                  yes
  timeshift                                yes
  trace                                    yes
  imagecache                               yes
  avahi                                    yes
  zlib                                     yes
  libav                                    yes
  ffmpeg_static                            no
  libx264                                  yes
  libx264_static                           no
  libx265                                  no
  libx265_static                           no
  libvpx                                   no
  libvpx_static                            no
  libtheora                                no
  libtheora_static                         no
  libvorbis                                yes
  libvorbis_static                         no
  libfdkaac                                yes
  libfdkaac_static                         no
  nvenc                                    no
  qsv                                      no
  libmfx_static                            no
  inotify                                  yes
  epoll                                    yes
  uriparser                                no
  ccache                                   yes
  tvhcsa                                   yes
  bundle                                   yes
  pngquant                                 yes
  dvbcsa                                   yes
  dvben50221                               yes
  kqueue                                   no
  dbus_1                                   no
  android                                  no
  tsdebug                                  no
  gtimer_check                             no
  slow_memoryinfo                          no
  libsystemd_daemon                        no
  bintray_cache                            no
  execinfo                                 yes
  W_unused_result                          yes
  getloadavg                               yes
  atomic32                                 yes
  atomic64                                 yes
  atomic_time_t                            yes
  bitops64                                 yes
  lockowner                                yes
  qsort_r                                  yes
  stime                                    yes
  gmtoff                                   yes
  recvmmsg                                 yes
  sendmmsg                                 yes
  libiconv                                 yes
  libdvben50221                            yes
  ifnames                                  yes
  py_gzip                                  yes
  bin_pkg_config                           yes
  bin_xgettext                             yes
  bin_msgmerge                             yes
  bin_gzip                                 yes
  bin_bzip2                                yes
  ssl                                      yes
  linuxdvbapi                              yes
  upnp                                     yes
  inotify_h                                yes
  inotify_init1                            yes
  linuxdvb_ca                              yes
  epoll_create1                            yes
  mpegts                                   yes
  mpegts_dvb                               yes

Packages:
  openssl                                  1.0.2o
  zlib                                     1.2.8
  avahi-client                             0.6.32
  libavfilter                              6.107.100
  libswresample                            2.9.100
  libavresample                            3.7.0
  libswscale                               4.8.100
  libavformat                              57.83.100
  libavcodec                               57.107.100
  libavutil                                55.78.100

Installation paths:
  Prefix:                                  /usr
  Binaries:                                /usr/bin
  Libraries:                               /usr/lib
  Data files:                              ${prefix}/share
  Man pages:                               ${datadir}/man@

the same for the debian stretch version: https://pastebin.com/EwVTVdTd

greetings

I've sent an e-mail to CvH to ask for info on how Libreelec is able to do this so I can look into getting it on Raspbian, I hope I have the right address!

You need at least the 4.3 builds from http://build.mycvh.de/ .
Unfortunately I had no idea that RPi transcoding works for Tvh at LE .

It was build with linking against a ffmpeg binary instead using tvh build in one (a holy mess with cross compiling). I only knew that the ffmpeg binary itself was supporting the rpi transcoding.

just have a look at the options used (there are x86_64/generic and rpi options)
https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/blob/master/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx/package.mk#L41

for Tvh I use this options
https://github.com/CvH/LibreELEC.tv/blob/9.0/tvh-4.3/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/package.mk#L21-L82

maybe some setting is missing somewhere for you ?

Thanks for your help guys!!

I'm currently trying to compile tvh with the presented options,
will report my status back

btw: I have a pi transcoding DVBS Content since 2015: https://tvheadend.org/boards/4/topics/16680?r=16778#message-16778
So it should be quite clear that the RPI3 is more than capable to do this

I know that it is working with ffmpeg but I thought it is borked with Tvh for the RPi.

Thanks for your help,

compiling with the options from @CvH worked and transcodes fine!
(I used tvheadend-release-4.2)

./configure --disable-ffmpeg_static \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --bindir=/usr/bin \
  --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
  --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --libdir=/usr/lib \
  --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
  --localstatedir=/var \
  --disable-static \
  --enable-shared \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --arch=arm \
  --cpu=cortex-a7 \
  --disable-libfdkaac_static \
  --disable-libopus_static \
  --disable-libtheora \
  --disable-libtheora_static \
  --disable-libvorbis_static \
  --disable-libvpx_static \
  --disable-libx264_static \
  --disable-libx265_static \
  --enable-libav \
  --enable-libfdkaac \
  --enable-libopus \
  --enable-libvorbis \
  --enable-libvpx \
  --enable-libx264 \
  --enable-libx265 \
  --disable-libvpx \
  --disable-libx265 \
  --enable-mmal \
  --enable-omx \
  --enable-avahi \
  --enable-bundle \
  --disable-dbus_1 \
  --enable-dvbcsa \
  --enable-dvben50221 \
  --enable-epoll \
  --enable-inotify \
  --enable-pngquant \
  --disable-nvenc \
  --disable-uriparser \
  --enable-tvhcsa \
  --enable-trace \
  --nowerror \
  --disable-bintray_cache 

Thank you guys!!

Interestingly it does work, but only with 4.2 O.o. Anyway, I've updated #4572!

I have also a lot reports that HW transcoding is broken for 4.3 at LE with recent (1-2months) changes (x86_64).

Not sure that this is the actually problem but maybe (no time yet to search the problem)

[ ERROR] transcode: 0003: Unable to find libx264 encoder
[ INFO] transcode: 0003: 1:H264 > Passthrough
[ INFO] transcode: 0003: 2:MPEG2AUDIO > AAC (aac)
[WARNING] libav: Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
[WARNING] libav: Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.

Unfortunately I still have hiccups every few seconds on the raspbian build...
I'm using 4.2.7-34~g036b9cbab now but I cannot see where they come from, tvh doesn't log any errors.
gpu_mem is set to 256
Is there something tuned differently in libreelec?

we have an highly optimised build for RPi, but that shouldn't be the problem

maybe too old drivers/versions ?

I'm using a Sat>Ip receiver as a box so there shouldn't be any driver issues?
Only difference I see is the ffmpeg version, but LE reports something about version 8.?

Anyways I blame it on a propably fauly Power Supply, but it is remote, I get back there in a few days

depending, LE9 ships soon with ffmpeg 4.1, currently 4.0 for Tvh

I think this is a duplicate of #5308 and already fixed by @perexg in recent 4.2.7 and master branches. Maybe just build and try again...

I still have hiccups on transcoded streams on a fresh raspbian and following the instructions from #4572
There is no error output and it seems as if the Pi cannot keep up with transcoding, CPU is at ~50% with a single DVB SD stream.
I also switched power supply, but still...

It's working fine on LE though :/

use LE

C vH wrote:

use LE

hehe, yeah that would be the easiest solution ;)
I'd really like to run this on vanilla raspbian to test if HD is also possible, and I really don't need kodi.bin running on this one

i debugged the transcoding now for a bit and the only line which keeps popping up is:

mpegts: too much queued table input data (over 2MB), discarding new

(goes up to 50MB over time, the webui is frozen at that point)

and I really don't need kodi.bin running on this one

just to add (if someone else read it) you can add an

systemctl stop kodi

to the autoexec.sh to work "headless" - it works and is used a lot even we don't promote it

@C vH
Kudos for what you've achieved. These static dependencies are driving me crazy building for all the various Synology platforms with outdated kernel and driver versions as well. Are you actually integrating all those static ffmpeg patches in the dynamic versions you are linking or are you just "ignoring" them? Any advice appreciated.

We are building Tvh against https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/blob/master/packages/addons/addon-depends/ffmpegx/package.mk
nothing else is added.

Hint, don't use the Tvh included ffmpeg etc versions - thats a gigantic pain in the ass at cross compiling, we did this before and it worked horrible.
Build ffmpeg "nativly" btw crosscompile it and link Tvh against it. That works well and makes no difference at the end.

Cheers, mate. We stopped building ffmpeg statically more than a year ago as well. Gigantic PITA being the reason. :-)
Synology is still supporting ARM5, ARM7, ARM8, powerpc (qoriq), x86 and 64 platforms, partially with massively outdated kernels. I'll look at your link. Maybe some of your configuration carries over. Thanks again!