UnicornTranscoder
Remote transcoder for Plex (by UnicornTranscoder)
Radarr
Movie organizer/manager for usenet and torrent users. (by Radarr)
| UnicornTranscoder | Radarr | |
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| 37 | 407 | |
| 718 | 12,078 | |
| 0.6% | 1.5% | |
| 0.0 | 9.8 | |
| over 2 years ago | 3 days ago | |
| JavaScript | C# | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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UnicornTranscoder
Posts with mentions or reviews of UnicornTranscoder.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.
- outsource transcoding to GPU in another machine
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The Dim Media Manager is still active - Help us by filling out our survey!
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.
Radarr
Posts with mentions or reviews of Radarr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-17.
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HomeLab
Radarr – movies
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Copy-paste on big screen. Analyzing errors and oddities in Radarr code
To perform the analysis, we used the source code available on GitHub via this link.
- Radarr: Automate Movie Downloads and Management via Usenet and Torrents
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My Home Lab setup
Movies: Radarr
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Gzip compression questions for 2 use cases
I use Nginx for Sonarr/Radarr would I see any general performance benefit when loading their webpages in general? If so, what level of compression would be ideal for this case?
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I am looking for a troubled/bad open source codebase
In the /r/selfhosted community Sonarr and Radarr are staples, but their code isn't particularly great and there are lots of bugs people just deal with. Radarr forked Sonarr, their interface is similar but they suffer from disjoint bugs.
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/r/Plex's Moronic Mondays' No Stupid Questions Thread - 2023-07-10
There may be better places, since I've just stuck to the same one for years now (and don't need them often enough to look into alternatives), but I usually use either subscene or opensubtitles. There are also programs that can automate it like bazarr, but it requires you to also use Sonarr/Radarr.
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Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me!! Recent streaming services, prices and shows getting butchered, finally decided its time. Here's how a basic self-hosted 'Netflix' would look like. Fully automated once its setup. Using only a makeshift homelab server from second hand parts.
Radarr: Automatically downloads movies.
- How do i move my files and rename them but also keep it seeding with the original title for torrents?
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HELP! :)
Radarr is for movies. Sonarr is for TV shows.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UnicornTranscoder and Radarr 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.
Sonarr - Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users.
Plex-Remote-Transcoder - A distributed transcoding backend for Plex
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.
kube-plex - Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!
CouchPotato - Automatic Movie Downloading via NZBs & Torrents