Plex Transcoder actual sources

Plex Labs
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Hi there. I’ve found some topics where Plex provided sources for Plex Transcoder. As it is a modified ffmpeg and ffmpeg is LGPL.
Why dont you make a mirror repo on github?

Why I’m looking for it?

I’m and Raspbery Pi 3 user. Recently I’ve bought a new TV(Before it was and old one without Smart TV, DLNA etc). So mostly I was watching using direct stream to PC(connect pld tv via HDMI… argh paint…) and now I feel the power of Plex as it can diliver my content to any device.
RPi3 have a GPU with h264 encding/decoding support. I’ve made some tests for ffmpeg build with --enable-omx-rpi(This swith enables ffmpeg to use GPU of rpi for h264 transcoding) and perfomance is pretty good. I have to switch to another simular software(there for i have a Plex Pass for Year) - Emby. The main reason it uses system installed ffmpeg. So I can watch 1080p video with transcoding without any buffering on rpi3. But I want to watch it in Plex as it much better than Emby.
To prove that I’m not a liar here is some logs of transcoding from Emby:

720p h264 Hi10 4.3 Mb\s bitrate -> 720p h264 4.3Mb\s bitrate https://pastebin.com/0Qu50kkD
1080p h264 Hi10 12Mb\s bitrate -> 1080p h264 10Mb\s bitrate https://pastebin.com/tpP41084

So it will be nice to have a repo for transcoder or at least a link for tarball of actual version witch will be updated constantly.

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Hey there, I’ve asked internally about that flag, but in the meantime, this is the latest source ~ https://files.plexapp.com/elan/ffmpeg/plex-ffmpeg-2017-12-17.txz

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(Basically, it’s not a trivial endeavor for us to enable rPI as a supported architecture for h/w acceleration. We’d need to build with those extra flags/headers, figure out the best scaling/decoding parameters, test, and support. Not saying we’d never do it, just explaining why we haven’t thus far.)

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Great thx for tarball.