Feature Request - Converting more than one item in parallel

[someCynic]

This would be amazing!
I’ve requested the same thing in the past as well:

Optimize / Transcode content in parallel

It would be great if the Transcoder Settings had configuration to allow for the “Optimize” queue to support more than one processing job at a time. Currently I run Plex in a distributed manner in which actual transcoding jobs get offloaded to other servers in my network, so technically I could be optimizing multiple items in parallel and just have PMS monitor the progress without actually doing any of the work. However, the Conversion queue is fixed to just one job at a time leaving the server…

Combining this functionality of converting multiple items in parallel with the clusterplex dockermod (GitHub - pabloromeo/clusterplex: ClusterPlex is an extended version of Plex, which supports distributed Workers across a cluster to handle transcoding requests.) you could convert in parallel across a swarm of transcoding nodes without overloading PMS itself.