Tvheadend for Ubuntu (PPA), built against FFmpeg 9 – Jammy, Noble and Resolute

Tvheadend is a TV streaming server and PVR backend for DVB, IPTV and other tuner sources, with transcoding support via FFmpeg.
ppa:dersobi/tvheadend packages Tvheadend straight from upstream’s master branch (there has been no tagged release since v4.3 in 2017, so this PPA tracks a specific,tested commit rather than a version tag) and links it against ppa:dersobi/ffmpeg9 instead of Ubuntu’s stock, older FFmpeg.
That gives you a Tvheadend build with a current transcoding engine, hardware encodingvia NVENC, and libfdk-aac audio encoding enabled.

Requirements

Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy), 24.04 (Noble) or 26.04 (Resolute) – amd64
software-properties-common (provides add-apt-repository)
ppa:dersobi/ffmpeg9 must also be enabled. This package’s binaries depend on library names such as libavcodec63 and libavutil61, which only exist in the FFmpeg 9 PPA — installing tvheadend from this PPA without also enabling ppa:dersobi/ffmpeg9 will fail to resolve dependencies.
An NVIDIA GPU with current drivers, only if you intend to use NVENC hardware encoding profiles — Tvheadend itself installs and runs without one.

Installation

Add both PPAs (FFmpeg 9 first, since Tvheadend depends on it):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dersobi/ffmpeg9
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dersobi/tvheadend
sudo apt update

Install Tvheadend:
```
sudo apt install tvheadend
```
The installer prompts for a Tvheadend administrator username and password.
Confirm the packages resolved against FFmpeg 9, not a stock build:
```
dpkg -l | grep libavcodec
```
You should see a libavcodec63 (or newer, matching the FFmpeg 9 PPA) package, not Ubuntu’s own older libavcodec version.
Open the web interface: http://<server-ip>:9981/

Notes

Versions in this PPA are named after the exact upstream commit they were built from, for example 4.3.0~pre+20260911~git06899e3-0build1~ubuntu24.04 — the date and short Git SHA identify precisely which upstream snapshot is packaged, since there is no upstream version tag to reference.
Because this build tracks upstream master, updates are prepared and tested manually against ppa:dersobi/ffmpeg9‘s current headers before being uploaded, rather than pushed automatically — this avoids shipping a build broken by an unrelated upstream API change.
If the machine also has Ubuntu Pro / ESM enabled, the same APT pinning described on the FFmpeg 9 PPA page applies here too, using o=LP-PPA-dersobi-tvheadend in the pin file’s origin match.