Transcoding live streams question

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Thu Jun 4 22:37:46 BST 2015, iz wrote: 

> I found that I could use 
> --hls-livetv-opts="-acodec copy -vcodec copy" 
> to override the transcoding.

Hello :-) 
This is a most important find! 
I haven't really experimented with LiveTV inside GiP, 
(I am legally off-limits), the very little tests I conducted 
were via standalone FFmpeg commands for "academic" 
purposes... 
 I am aware of the analogous radio option,
--hls-liveradio-opts
but it only relates to re-muxing, since liveradio (AppleHLS 
streams) does not need recoding - so my mind did not go  
to "--hls-livetv-opts" which indeed, according to --helplong:

"Add custom options to ffmpeg HLS download encoding for livetv"

But, of course, your FFmpeg binary should support 
"-c:v copy -c:a copy" for the LiveTV HLS streams; 
have you updated yours manually?

@ John Warburton:
Looks like you won't have to edit the main script manually!

Many cheers, iz!
Vangelis.