Enhancing Plex Server Efficiency: Implementing Dynamic Transcoding for Downloads

[bolagnaise]

Doubtful you will get anything out of the dev team here about this, i’ve had a feature request open about this for over a year, its low on their priorities.

[Feature Request] Ability to map new downloads feature transcodes to seperate path

With the introduction of the new downloads feature, all downloads that require transcoding of any kind are stored in the ’’Transcoder temporary directory‘’’path set inside plex settings. For those using ram as their transcoding path, either through a ramdisk or by using /tmp or /dev/shm, this can cause issues when multiple downloads are started and the client is remote and the upload is slow or the amount of ram available is low, it will cause the plex instance to crash due to out of memory iss…