Actually this is from General Discussions but I think it should be here:
For example my Plex is working under a NAS on an Atom server ( AsRock C2750D4I ). While it’s pretty powerful by itself it may need a more powerful transcoder PC ( for 4K videos etc ). So, I also have a i7-6700K PC. Could it be possible to install a transcode server on this PC and Plex uses that whenever it’s available. What I mean is Plex should transcode media files on the server machine, but if the transcoder PC is available on network ( powered on ) it should prioritize to that machine for transcoding tasks. It would be better of course to share the work between machines, but what I suggest is easier to do because only one computer will transcode files like right now.
It is possible to use two different servers ( one on the PC, other on NAS ). But the media library will not be shared and if you watch an episode on one server, the other will not realize this and it’ll still show it as unwatched. This is not what I need.
What do you think about Plex Transcode Server?
