Tvheadend

Thanks for the fast response, but what do you mean with "old version"?
According to https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Releases version 4.2 is latest release.

Latest version is 4.3. 4.2 is so old and there have been many fixes and improvements since then, it's not a proper release though (at least not yet)

Since 4.3 is not an official release (yet), how to I upgrade my RPI4 to this version?

I can't finde 4.3 on github. Following command returns:

fatal: Remote branch release/4.3 not found in upstream origin

$ git clone -b release/4.3 https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git

Norbert Essl wrote:

I can't finde 4.3 on github. Following command returns:

just clone master until Flole Systems put new tag sometime in feature.

git clone https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git

It's not just the new tag (which would be 4.4 by the way) but also the entire changes on the build system which are needed I think. Creating that tag and branch is not an issue, but making sure that there are proper 4.4 build created and uploaded to the repository then is more difficult. I don't want everything to stay in a broken state for weeks so I want to make sure I have enough time to go through that process from the beginning to the (sucessfull) end (including any issues I will experience while doing so). I will also contact some of the old maintainers who previously made releases when I am ready and ask for help, they are all super nice people and if they can somehow help I am sure many will do that. Also currently something with the nvidia transcoding is broken and that regression should be fixed aswell before a release.

Long story short: Many excuses to not create the tag right now ;)

Well, following didn't work either:

$ git clone https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git
$ sudo apt install build-essential git libpcre2-dev pkg-config libssl-dev bzip2 wget libavahi-client-dev zlib1g-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libavresample-dev gettext cmake libiconv-hook-dev liburiparser-dev debhelper libcurl4-gnutls-dev 
$ cd tvheadend
$ ./Autobuild.sh

Last line (./Autobuild.sh) provide following results:

pi@raspberrypi:~/tvheadend $ ./Autobuild.sh
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package tvheadend
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Andreas Öman <andreas@tvheadend.org>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture armhf
 dpkg-source --before-build .
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: libdvbcsa-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)

https://tvheadend.org/boards/4/topics/24116

simple searching allways help

I've followed the instructions there, and following errors still show up after Autobuild:

make[5]: *** [Makefile:200: vpx_dsp/arm/intrapred_neon_asm.asm.S.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [Makefile:17: .DEFAULT] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/tvheadend/build.linux/ffmpeg/libvpx-1.9.0'
make[3]: *** [Makefile.ffmpeg:330: /home/pi/tvheadend/build.linux/ffmpeg/libvpx-1.9.0/.tvh_build] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/tvheadend'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:853: /home/pi/tvheadend/build.linux/ffmpeg/build/ffmpeg/lib/libavcodec.a] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/tvheadend'
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:15: override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/tvheadend'
make: *** [debian/rules:6: build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2

Wasn't able to find anything how to fix it in the MANUAL mentioned above.

I usually disable static_ffmpeg on the PI (I don't use transcoding on the PI):

sudo AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA=--disable-libx265\ --disable-pie\ --disable-libvpx\ --disable-ffmpeg_static ./Autobluid.sh

Strange, it says autobuild command not found:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA=--disable-libx265\ --disable-pie\ --disable-libvpx\ --disable-ffmpeg_static ./Autobuild.sh
sudo: ./Autobuild.sh: command not found

Norbert Essl wrote:

Strange, it says autobuild command not found:

[...]

Go to directory where clone tvh repo.

Autobuild finished wihtout major errors. But I'm still on version 4.2.8
Any idea why that might be? (I did reboot after Autobild was finished)

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tvheadend -v
tvheadend: version 4.2.8-34~g24a2f59e9

Did you install the package (sudo dpkg -i ...)?

How should the command look exactly? Where do I get the name of the package from? (The one mentioned in the manual (see below) looks to be for an old version(4.1))

sudo dpkg -i tvheadend_4.1-2398~gc38af4c_amd64.deb

I guess I figured it out. Last part of ./Autobuild.sh provides:

doozer-versioned-artifact:/home/pi/tvheadend/../ *tvheadend_4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1_armhf.deb* :deb:application/x-deb:tvheadend_4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1_armhf.deb
doozer-versioned-artifact:/home/pi/tvheadend/../tvheadend-dbg_4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1_armhf.deb:deb:application/x-deb:tvheadend-dbg_4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1_armhf.deb
doozer-versioned-artifact:/home/pi/tvheadend/../tvheadend_4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1_armhf.changes:changes:text/plain:tvheadend_4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1_armhf.changes

But still when using this version, I get an error:

pi@raspberrypi:~/tvheadend $ sudo dpkg -i *tvheadend_4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1_armhf.deb*
*dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'tvheadend_4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1_armhf.deb': No such file or directory*

Any idea anyone?

I managed to upgrade to new version:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tvheadend -v
tvheadend: version 4.3-1923~gaaca05cc1

But now Tvheadend log gives following error message every second:

2021-02-19 19:43:01.344 tvhpoll: epoll del failed [No such file or directory]

Also:

When switching to certain channels, I get continuity counter errors (examples see below) and channel does not start playing. When stopping channel and turning it on again, it works without errors most of the time.

2021-02-20 10:19:48.269 TS: DVB-S Network/11303H/ORF1 HD: AC3 #1921 Continuity counter error (total 1)
...
2021-02-20 10:21:08.235 TS: DVB-S Network/11303H/ServusTV HD Oesterreich: H264 #3583 Continuity counter error (total 1)
...
2021-02-20 10:33:39.658 TS: DVB-S Network