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Remote transcoder for Plex (by UnicornTranscoder)
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A distributed transcoding backend for Plex (by wnielson)
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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.
Plex-Remote-Transcoder
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.
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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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1PC many Gamers? How about Many PC's One Gamer.
If you're looking for external transcoder for your plex instance, take a look here
- Load Balancer for plex transcoding
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Transcoding with Nvidia GPU's
You could also check out Remote Transcoder for plex to get some "transcoding load balancing".
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Just bought a new NAS for plex!
Better setup distributed transcoding with your NUC just in case... with https://github.com/wnielson/Plex-Remote-Transcoder or https://forums.plex.tv/t/release-unicorntranscoder-create-a-plex-transcoding-cluster/281679
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UnicornTranscoder and Plex-Remote-Transcoder you can also consider the following projects:
kube-plex - Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!
clusterplex - ClusterPlex is an extended version of Plex, which supports distributed Workers across a cluster to handle transcoding requests.
sabnzbd - SABnzbd - The automated Usenet download tool
k8s-mediaserver-operator - Repository for k8s Mediaserver Operator project
Exoplayer - An extensible media player for Android
Medusa - Automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic.
metallb - A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols
longhorn - Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes
kubebuilder - Kubebuilder - SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs
MediaInfoLib - Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
Jackett - API Support for your favorite torrent trackers
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