UnicornTranscoder VS sabnzbd

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.

You need a usenet provider like Fastusenet or whatever you prefer, then you need a client like sabnzb and then a search provider like NzbGeek.

Download client = sabnzbd

Get sabnzbd, this is kind of like your torrent client, you use this to download the .nzb files, there are many more clients if you prefer another one, here is the tutorial on how to setup SabNZBd

You are using 4.0.1? Then this is relevant: https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/discussions/2474 It is also listed in the https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/advanced/highspeed-downloading page.

SABnzbd 4 has been rewritten and optimized to such a degree that the GIL isn't really an issue any longer. On some multicore CPUs it even seems to spread the load better and give higher speed than nzbget. In your case you may need to tweak the config variables described here: https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/discussions/2474

There are multiple settings that can tweak performance, see: https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/discussions/2474 We are trying to find the most optimal default settings, so you can help us by letting us know the results on your system!

https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/releases/tag/4.0.0 ... better?