UnicornTranscoder
Remote transcoder for Plex (by UnicornTranscoder)
kube-plex
Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster! (by munnerz)
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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.
kube-plex
Posts with mentions or reviews of kube-plex.
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Run a single Plex server across multiple physical servers?
Example: https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex
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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)
- Multiple Servers to spread out processing power, looks like a single server to the user... Possible?
- Any Multi-Media (e.g. Plex) Which Works With Load Balancer (Multiple-Server)
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Plex on Kubernetes with hardware decoding... Victory
not OP, but I have some experience with Kubernetes, plex is the last service that I haven't yet migrated to my K3s cluster. Generally speaking, Kubernetes doesn't mean HA, it does mean that if a node goes down, plex will ideally spin on on another (assuming everything is correctly configured) but an application needs to be designed specifically to be deployed in a HA way in order to scale horizontally like you are suggesting. You can see in the picture that only 1 Pod (a unit that holds a container) is actually running. There is/was a project to separate our transcode jobs into their own pods to allow for horizontal scaling of transcode jobs, but it looks like it hasn't been updated in years, sounds a bit hacky and I haven't had the confidence to try it just yet.
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Serious: What is the use case for this as home user?
There is a project out there for Plex in Kubernetes btw!
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My custom-built 10-inch Raspberry Pi rack in IKEA Kallax
-> https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex
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32 Node KBN-I/5200 Kubernetes cluster running Debian 10/K8s 1.17/Intel Core i7/8GB RAM each. Used the standoffs and mounted each 8 stack to empty trays. Disks are 64GB USB3 sticks.
I've been there and it's not officially supported by Plex or even Jellyfin or Emby. There's kube-plex which is not maintained anymore, probably the most success you could have is with unicorn transcoder however it forces you to stay pinned to a Plex version until the maintainers push an update.
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Raspberry Pi POE cluster
Theres kube-plex, which does this https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex
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k8s-mediaserver-operator - Your all-in-one resource for your media needs! - Plex/Jackett/Radarr/Sonarr/Transmission
Btw it looks like kube-plex (with pod transcoding) isn't dead yet https://github.com/munnerz/kube-plex/pull/97#issuecomment-620610658
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UnicornTranscoder and kube-plex 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.
home-cluster - My home server cluster, managed by flux and defined as code here
Plex-Remote-Transcoder - A distributed transcoding backend for Plex
metallb - A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols
MediaInfoLib - Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
charts - ⚠️ Deprecated : Helm charts for applications you run at home