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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 own repositories usually lag several major versions behind upstream FFmpeg, and Ubuntu Pro / ESM machines make this worse by actively pinning an older ESM-provided build over anything newer. ppa:dersobi/ffmpeg9 packages current FFmpeg 9 (and its full dependency chain – libavcodec, libavfilter, libavformat, libswscale, libswresample, libavutil, plus the codec libraries FFmpeg links...