Would it be possible for multiple PMS to access the same library? Why let one quad core i7 mac mini do all the transcoding when I’ve got 4 of the darn things. It used to be bandwidth was my bottleneck but now with gigabit up and down that’s not the issue. Even if there is no “central” server with load balancing, it could still spread the load if I have PMS1 through PMS4 for my users to pick from if the server they are on is overloaded at the moment.
I do not see any reason why this couldn’t work, if all of the shares are network accessible.
You can easily set up 4 servers which are pointing at the same media files.
But all the metadata and ‘watched’ will not be shared among those 4 servers.
There is no way to do that.
Actually, there is a workaround for the ‘watched’ status:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/plex-sync
Well that’s the fly in the ointment I guess - it would need to be able to update the watched status and such. Oh well, back to the drawing board I guess…
Perhaps its time to look into that “Remote Transcoder” item that some of the 3rd party people have been working on in another forum on here?
@OttoKerner said:
You can easily set up 4 servers which are pointing at the same media files.But all the metadata and ‘watched’ will not be shared among those 4 servers.
There is no way to do that.Actually, there is a workaround for the ‘watched’ status:
plex-sync - npm
I had a look at plex-sync and too hard for me.
I have currently 4 servers , 4 local users and 5 remote.
If it ever gets a gui I would pay for that!
Or when android/plex/nvidia allow me access to the pms folder my watched/unwatched info would be solved.
