# Helper transcoders **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [September 16, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/helper-transcoders/308882 "2018-09-16T02:16:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrdrew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mrdrew/32/82803_2.png) [@mrdrew](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mrdrew)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/helper-transcoders/308882/1 "2018-09-16T02:16:37Z")
My Plex server isn’t the most powerful machine on my home network. How about a “Plex Helper” app for Windows that can take advantage of other powerful machines on the home LAN? PMS would look for Plex Helper apps on the same network, shuffle a full size video to them with a request for 3Mbps version etc, Plex Helper would convert and send back to PMS. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/helper-transcoders/308882/2 "2018-09-16T10:47:15Z")
A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes. > [@Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681/1): > > 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 dual socket blade servers   what if there was a way of scaling plex itself to have separate compute/transcode nodes instead of just having one giant server...   so for example, you have one box running plex itself, then several slaved boxes that … Therefore this one is closed. Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of re-voting in the other thread if you still want it. * * * Please **search** before creating a new suggestion thread. Only one feature per thread. See feature suggestions, sorted by **most popular** first [https://forums.plex.tv/c/general/feature-suggestions/l/votes](https://forums.plex.tv/c/general/feature-suggestions/l/votes) ---
**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:** [September 16, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/helper-transcoders/308882/3 "2018-09-16T10:47:18Z")