I have a couple computers on my network with PMS installed. They all show up in my single Plex/Web interface which is awesome. Most of my high quality movies are on one of those servers and when I am updating mine and my kid's iPads for a trip that one server has its CPU maxed out the whole time all by itself. It would be awesome if another PMS server can see that there is a transcode that needs to happen, direct stream the file from the main PMS server, then transcode. When it is done, it could serve it out the iPad or I guess it could get sent back.
I have a couple computers on my network with PMS installed. They all show up in my single Plex/Web interface which is awesome. Most of my high quality movies are on one of those servers and when I am updating mine and my kid's iPads for a trip that one server has its CPU maxed out the whole time all by itself. It would be awesome if another PMS server can see that there is a transcode that needs to happen, direct stream the file from the main PMS server, then transcode. When it is done, it could serve it out the iPad or I guess it could get sent back.
duplicate, pls vote here -> http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/61278-feature-request-separate-computer-for-transcoding-vs-streaming/?hl=cluster#entry367526
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate
