UnicornTranscoder VS k8s-mediaserver-operator

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.

There's this project - https://github.com/UnicornTranscoder/UnicornTranscoder That lets you use a remote transcoder, but idk if the project is maintained anymore.

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)

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.

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.

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.

I'm having an issue with this, and I'm hoping someone can help. I am relatively new to Kubernetes, and to concepts such as custom resource definitions. I am trying to set up kubealex/k8s-mediaserver-operator, which first has you create a CRD via one YML file, and then apply a second file which should then use the CRD to actually create all of the objects.

https://github.com/kubealex/k8s-mediaserver-operator/blob/2e5b9e36f605f76789191303f9697bd15d4d7dd1/helm-charts/k8s-mediaserver/templates/radarr-deployment.yaml#L55