# 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:** ![Maxou44](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/maxou44/32/18226_2.png) [@Maxou44](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Maxou44)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681/223 "2020-04-23T22:00:31Z")

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There is also UnicornTranscoder to make Plex Great Again 😁

> [@\[Release\] 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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