# \[Feature Request\] Plex Transcoding Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [March 10, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-transcoding-server/183843 "2017-03-10T17:39:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MattWeiler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mattweiler/32/23102_2.png) [@MattWeiler](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MattWeiler)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-transcoding-server/183843/1 "2017-03-10T17:39:36Z")
I’ve only been using my **Plex Media Server** for about 4 months now, but I love it. It would be great if there was a trimmed-down version of the **Plex Media Server** (_really just the video transcoder_) which could be installed on additional machines. These additional machines could be referenced by the primary **Plex Media Server** as encoding slaves. This would allow a **Plex Media Server** to scale horizontally instead of having to buy a bigger/better CPU since getting a better CPU gets very expensive very quickly and has an upper limit. I found a discussion wherein there exists an unofficial 3rd party tool which does this, but it currently only works for Linux installs and sounds very fragile as changes made to the **Plex Media Server** could easily break it. [forums.plex.tv/discussion/178320/plex-remote-transcoder-a-distributed-transcoding-backend-for-plex](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/178320/plex-remote-transcoder-a-distributed-transcoding-backend-for-plex "https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/178320/plex-remote-transcoder-a-distributed-transcoding-backend-for-plex") ---
**Author:** ![sam.hinsley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@sam.hinsley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sam.hinsley)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-transcoding-server/183843/2 "2017-03-11T00:18:39Z")
So in effect you want to create a networked cluster for transcoding purposes? Sounds like a good idea, especially if you, like me, have some more horsepower sitting around the house when you’re not at home. ---
**Author:** ![MattWeiler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mattweiler/32/23102_2.png) [@MattWeiler](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MattWeiler)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-transcoding-server/183843/3 "2017-03-11T00:30:50Z")
> @sam.hinsley said: > So in effect you want to create a networked cluster for transcoding purposes? Sounds like a good idea, especially if you, like me, have some more horsepower sitting around the house when you’re not at home. Yes, exactly. My NAS has an Intel i3 and it can transcode 3 videos at once without lagging. I’d love to be able to build a cheap Linux box, or a few, to transcode several streams at once. It’s always cheaper to scale horizontally than vertically especially since you can top out in CPU power quickly. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-transcoding-server/183843/4 "2017-03-11T02:01:41Z")
duplicate feature request > **[Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/121215/distributed-transcoding-scaling/p1#top)** > > 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... closing please respect the rules for this subforum - search first if the request has already been posted before - only [one feature per post](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/46128/rules-for-this-forum-inc-how-to-vote#top "one feature per post") ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-plex-transcoding-server/183843/5 "2018-08-13T09:43:56Z")