UnicornTranscoder
Remote transcoder for Plex (by UnicornTranscoder)
Exoplayer
This project is deprecated and stale. The latest ExoPlayer code is available in https://github.com/androidx/media (by google)
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| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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UnicornTranscoder
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- outsource transcoding to GPU in another machine
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Just having support for a remote transcoder, along the lines of unicorn transcoder or rffmpeg would be a good first step to let us start homebrewing a solution.
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Two servers, same data
There's this project - https://github.com/UnicornTranscoder/UnicornTranscoder That lets you use a remote transcoder, but idk if the project is maintained anymore.
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Secondary Plex Server
There are some projects to distribute transcoding jobs like the Unicorn Transcoder (last activity in 2021), Remote Transcoder (last activity in 2017) or the Kubernetes project (last activity in 2020)
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Tonemapping Dolby Vision - Is it possible to achieve by replacing the ffmpeg binary?
Interesting, I wasn't aware they tweaked it so much. Projects like Unicorn Transcoder made it seem like you could just drop-in replace it with a different binary.
- Plex Raspberry Pi 4B and Windows PC with RTX 3080?
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Is it possible to run the "Optimize" functionality standalone? I want to run it on my powerful PC instead of my weak NAS CPU
There was/is a Project for remote transcoding, the Unicorn Trancoder which might help but the last commit in that project was made in Oct. 2021.
- Who is currently running two or more plex servers?
- Different encoders for different sessions
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Can I let my Plex Server convert files on another machine?
On the other hand, there is a Project called Unicorn Transcoder which is to offload the transcoding job on a different machine. If that works with plex optimization or just the "on-the-fly" transcoder, I don't know.
Exoplayer
Posts with mentions or reviews of Exoplayer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.
- ExoPlayer Deprecated: Transition to New Home on AndroidX Media
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Lost in Translation: The Bug That Spoke Russian and Crashed My App
According to some people on the Internet [0][1], it is. Apparently, Java's (Android's?) Locale.getLanguage() is broken for Russian locale and instead of returning "ru" as the docs promise [2], it returns "русский".
[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46916210/cannot-get-writ...
[1] https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/8251
[2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Locale.h...
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Another post for Stremio on LG Web OS
I tried using the Fire TV but it has huge problems with some 4K HDR video formats that goes black screen. It is an issue reported by multiple users for Plex but it's the same for all applications on FireTV. This is the issue on github for Exoplayer: https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/11096
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ExoPlayer vs MediaPlayer for playing audio only. Which should I use?
Media3 is the new home for APIs that enable you to create rich audio and video experiences. If you’ve used libraries like ExoPlayer, MediaCompat, or Media2, you’ll find Media3 to be familiar. However, instead of using these separate libraries, Media3 provides a unified API for playback use-cases and also expands to cover new use-cases like video editing and transcoding. The APIs are simple to use yet powerful, customizable to meet your needs, and reliable and optimized so you can build for the diverse Android device ecosystem. (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/media3-is-ready-to-play.html)
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ExoPlayer segment download
Haven't done video work in years, but checkout the DefaultTrackSelector and start following around in the source code. Android Studio should allow you to do this all in the IDE. It's really the only way to learn/understand this stuff.
- Hi everyone, I am working on ExoPlayer. Trying to implement CMCD on ExoPlayer. Has anyone had any experience related to CMCD?
- Dolby Vision on FireStick TV = just a black screen?
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How to stream other games to friends while in VR chat?
Also in regards to having to tell PC rtspt:// and Quest rtsp:// and waiting for ExoPlayer to fail over to TCP (8 seconds delay) https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/11069
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Audio - Video Out Of Sync
I wonder if it's an ExoPlayer bug?
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ExoPlayer 2.18.2 is out and with some Dolby Vision fallback improvements
See the full changelog of ExoPlayer 2.18.2. Some notable changes are:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UnicornTranscoder and Exoplayer you can also consider the following projects:
clusterplex - ClusterPlex is an extended version of Plex, which supports distributed Workers across a cluster to handle transcoding requests.
mpv-android - video player for Android based on libmpv ↦ #mpv-android @ irc.libera.chat
Plex-Remote-Transcoder - A distributed transcoding backend for Plex
VideoPlayView - Custom Android view with video player, loader and placeholder image
kube-plex - Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!
Easy-Video-Player