# Distributed Transcoding/Scaling

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [September 17, 2014, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681 "2014-09-17T08:35:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681/211 "2019-05-14T19:10:43Z")

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for some reason doesn’t appear to have been linked here, but see @

> [@\[Release\] UnicornTranscoder, create a Plex Transcoding Cluster](https://forums.plex.tv/t/release-unicorntranscoder-create-a-plex-transcoding-cluster/281679/):
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> Hello everyone, Today we are releasing the UnicornTranscoder, it’s a project composed of 3 software to create a fully scalable Plex transcoding cluster. The project is written in NodeJS. The three components are: UnicornLoadBalancer: It is installed in front of Plex Media Server, it will catch the request and forward it to a UnicornTranscoder UnicornTranscoder: It is the transcoder software, it will get the transcoding parameters from Plex and start the Job. UnicornFFMEG: It’s a binary to…

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