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 …

+1 Official support for this feature would be awesome.

+1 This would be an awesome feature. I have a micro-cluster with 64 cores and several GPU-assisted workstations and it would be nice to be able to transcode my entire library using my cluster, especially during the initial setup. All of my systems are also on a high speed interconnect (100 Gbps 4…

Still waiting. This has been a very Active and popular request for nearly 5 years now.

+1 This would greatly help in my scenario. I’ve got 9 active transcode streams, and 4 direct, right now – and my server can barely keep up. Granted, it’s just an old workstation - but it’s an i7-3770 with 16gb. That’s not terrible. Instead of having to constantly upgrade hardware and migrate Plex,…

[image] cayars: Well the problem I see with that is that Plex uses the 32400 (or what ever port) to “advertise” what URL to access it self from the outside. You can only have one SSL going to a server from the WAN. So how are you going to do that? Not true. You can specify the listening por…

[image] kaboby: Instead of having to constantly upgrade hardware and migrate Plex, because at this point it would need to be a new box, it’d be great to have agents that can spin up on demand and off-load from the primary. Virtualize. Even if the machine is dedicated to Plex, get the P2V too…

+1 Almost 2020 and still nada (nothing), zero! :man_facepalming:

I’m sorry but this seems like a completely wasted feature for the vast majority of users. Unless every source file you have on the server is in 4k then transcoding it with decent quality should be fine on any six core CPU. Considering that AMD is literally throwing those at you for free paired with …

Well I run and maintain a number of servers just because of this issue… Distributed Transcoding would make my life so much easier… and eliminate the duplication of information that I have to store and scrape for each of my servers… Yes I guess I could by a power hungry machine to do it, and consi…

I would like to add, that not only load ballancing for transcoding would be nice, but also for upload bandwith. I want to setup an extra server on a different location with mirrored movie database (functions also as backup of my movies and if 1 server is offline plex still would be working). If plex…

Distributed Transcoding/Scaling

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There is also UnicornTranscoder to make Plex Great Again

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