# Plex Remote Transcoder - A distributed transcoding backend for Plex **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev/API Corner\ **Tags:** other-dev\ **Created:** [August 21, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-remote-transcoder-a-distributed-transcoding-backend-for-plex/112681 "2015-08-21T16:06:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 517
**Author:** ![someCynic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/somecynic/32/135289_2.png) [@someCynic](https://forums.plex.tv/u/someCynic)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-remote-transcoder-a-distributed-transcoding-backend-for-plex/112681/517 "2020-04-18T15:50:13Z")
In case anyone is interested, I’ve created another alternative solution, by running plex with a cluster of remote plex transcoders. I still haven’t gotten around to writing proper documentation on how to run it. But it is relatively simple, all using docker and based on Plex’s base images, so Plex updates automatically work just by rebuilding the docker images. I mostly built it for my own use, but others might be interested. I’ve posted more details in this other thread: > [@Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681/222): > > Wow, 6 years and this thread is still active. Now, it may not fit everyone’s needs, but I have built something for myself that accomplishes part of what has been described in this thread, and may be of use to someone or give some ideas. In my case I decided to shoot myself in the foot, and instead of buying proper standalone hardware, I’m running most of my apps at home on a Raspberry Pi 3 cluster of half a dozen nodes, using Docker Swarm. And that includes running PMS on it as well (I know, I… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-remote-transcoder-a-distributed-transcoding-backend-for-plex/112681)._