UnicornTranscoder
Remote transcoder for Plex (by UnicornTranscoder)
MediaInfoLib
Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. (by MediaArea)
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| MIT License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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.
MediaInfoLib
Posts with mentions or reviews of MediaInfoLib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
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On Export, Left audio is delayed by about half a second, is there a fix?
can you use https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo and post the text output. maybe there is something malformed in the source that the render engine is unhappy with. as soon as i see sync issues that dont make any sense, i always blame the source media and look to reencode it or somehow repackage it (like with handbrake) into a known and not wierdo format. remember mp4 is just a box. there might be a cat in that box, there might not be a cat at all.
- I want to use a horizontal video in a vertical timeline - Please help - info in comments
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Davinci does not let me drag screen recordings into the software
Footage specs - MediaInfo - please include the "Text" view of the file.
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Transcoding h264 source error
Is the problem with absolutely every AVC (h264) video you've tried, or only some? If it works with some and not others, can you share a MediaInfo report on a sample "faulty" file?
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TV series no sound
Need a little more info. What's the audio codec? Try converting the audio to AAC. Use mediainfo to see what codecs the file have.
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How to configure Jellyfin for best experience?
Can you give the MediaInfo report from one of the files that Jellyfin is having a "hard time" with?
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Some HEVC vídeos play normal but other dont.
Some can be encoded with 8bit others with 10bit, the device maybe doesn't play well with 10bit encoded videos. You can use mediainfo to see if was encoded with 8bit or 10bit.
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Chromecast wont play .mkv files anymore
What are the specifications of the file? Run MediaInfo on it and post the results here.
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Solutions to these problems?
Use MediaInfo on it and post the results.
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DaVinci Lagging Constantly on Timeline
Footage specs - MediaInfo - please include the "Text" view of the file.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UnicornTranscoder and MediaInfoLib 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.
GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework
Plex-Remote-Transcoder - A distributed transcoding backend for Plex
SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
kube-plex - Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!
libVLC