Hello!

Short question. Is it possible to install tvheadend with transcoding on Openelec? I have compiled by own tvheadend with enabled transcoding on Armbian, so I got deb file, but how to install it on OpenElec? Is it possible to convert it to Kodi's zipped plugin, or somehow create own repository?

Thanks in advance for answers... ;)

By tvheadend you mean backend (server)? Deb files are not installable here as primary filesystem is read only. I'm not familiar with tvheadend, but you can use OpenELEC build system to produce a zip file. If I understand everything correctly, tvheadend is already in unofficial repository and thus easily buildable by build system (zip file). All you need to do is to add patch files in patches/ subfolder.

Can you confirm that tvheadend you have in mind is the same as is in unofficial repository (minus your changes)? Then I can give you more detailed instructions.

Yes, I mean backend server. I use tvheadend backend server with two DVB-S tuners which is currently installed on PC. Tvheadend is attached to oscam proxy so I descramble also paied TV But I would like to have some SBC low power consumption server... I need transcoding as I would like to stream TV signal by internet - I want to watch TV at my second location where I dont have a possibility to install sattellite dish but I got small upload bandwith. Not compressed signal consumes almost all 100Mbit ethernet bandwidth I tried transcoding on Raspberry PI2 - its much too slow, Banana Pi M3 - no comments.... this board should ever been designed. And now Im trying to launch it on OPi. I think it might work as Your compilation of OpenElec is FUNTASTIC. TO be honest I havent seen faster KODI on SBC
So if decoding works OK with h.264 so why encode wouldnt work I tried to launch tvheadend backend server on Armbian and result is not satisfactory - but with my weak linux knowledge I think armbian does not support hardware decode-encode h.264 and OpenElec does... Thats why I want to use OpenElec...
Assuming. I have compiled tvheadend on armbian using this tutorial: https://tvheadend.org/boards/4/topics/13635 . Unfortunately I am not a guru in linux.... do You think it would be possible so You would build zip addon for Openelec?

I must disappoint you a bit. While HW encoding is definetly possible, there is no single library in OpenELEC which would do that. That means that you are limited to SW encoding. Did you check if existing tvheadend plugin in unofficial repository is enough for you?

I must disappoint you a bit. While HW encoding is definetly possible, there is no single library in OpenELEC which would do that. That means that you are limited to SW encoding. Did you check if existing tvheadend plugin in unofficial repository is enough for you?