UnicornTranscoder
Remote transcoder for Plex (by UnicornTranscoder)
clusterplex
ClusterPlex is an extended version of Plex, which supports distributed Workers across a cluster to handle transcoding requests. (by pabloromeo)
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| MIT License | MIT 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.
clusterplex
Posts with mentions or reviews of clusterplex.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-30.
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Run a single Plex server across multiple physical servers?
Clusterplex
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Plex on Kubernetes with intel iGPU passthrough - Small how to
I'm also very interested in distributing transcoding jobs via https://github.com/pabloromeo/clusterplex. Have you tried that yet?
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Has anyone used HAproxy for load balancing their PMS?
Here is a link to one of the Cluster projects: https://github.com/pabloromeo/clusterplex
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[FS][USA-CT] Intel NUC NUC6i7KYK Skull Canyon (32GB RAM, 256GB NVME SSD)
I use a forked version of this: https://github.com/pabloromeo/clusterplex which has been working awesome.
- Unraid, Plex transcoding and Rocket/Alder/Raptor lake or GPU
- Tdarr is a lifechanger!
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4k transcoding performance, CPU or old Nvidia card?
This is not true. You could setup Plex in a cluster and based on which content is requested let it handle by a certain transcoding worker. You have Clusterplex or you have UnicornTranscoder. Both are actively maintained repositories. This does however require some knowledge of Linux/Kubernetes so if OP (/u/slacktopuss) doesn't know how Ubuntu and Kubernetes works, it's going to take a long time before you're up and running.
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Transcode Media on different machine
And if UnicornTranscoder isn't it, you can always look intoClusterPlex's implementation. Basically the same as how UnicornTranscoder works (Node.JS as balancer and some remote FFMPEG installs).
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Multi-arch docker images the easy way, with Github Actions
To see full working examples of this we can take a look at the builds of two pet projects of mine: Docker-Dogecoin and ClusterPlex.
- /r/Plex's Share Your Build Thread - 2021-11-20
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UnicornTranscoder and clusterplex you can also consider the following projects:
Plex-Remote-Transcoder - A distributed transcoding backend for Plex
home-cluster - Talos cluster using gitops and renovate automation
kube-plex - Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!
intel-device-plugins-for-kubernetes - Collection of Intel device plugins for Kubernetes
MediaInfoLib - Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
HBBatchBeast - A free GUI application for HandBrake and FFmpeg/FFprobe with an emphasis on batch conversion (including recursive folder scans and folder watching) -Windows, macOS, Linux & Docker