# Allow path for transcoder executable to be overridden. **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [January 4, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-path-for-transcoder-executable-to-be-overridden/52590 "2014-01-04T00:50:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-path-for-transcoder-executable-to-be-overridden/52590/7 "2021-03-21T23:49:55Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681): > > I realize this is a longshot but right now my plex server is a quad socket system and it's barely keeping up with user load, looking at 8 socket systems and they are just astronomically expensive which got me thinking about the huge surplus of cheap dual socket blade servers   what if there was a way of scaling plex itself to have separate compute/transcode nodes instead of just having one giant server...   so for example, you have one box running plex itself, then several slaved boxes that … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-path-for-transcoder-executable-to-be-overridden/52590)._