Yes correct, prt is run as under plex user
@CB2131 said:
Yes correct, prt is run as under plex user
prt gets called by PMS, so the configuration of prt must be done as the user running PMS. su plex, then run prt add_host, then check ~/.prt.conf.
@CB2131 that seems absolutely great!
Just a quick question before trying it out : does it handles slaves being online / offline?
Thanks!
@foux I could be wrong, but it doesnāt seem like it handle slaves being online / offline at this point. However @wnielson would be the right person to confirm. All in all, its a great rough concept!
Thanks for the answer @CB2131
Sorry, I meant to mention @wnielson, I donāt know why I put your name instead 
@wnielson do you have an answer on this?
@foux said:
Thanks for the answer CB2131
Sorry, I meant to mention wnielson, I donāt know why I put your name instead
wnielson do you have an answer on this?
The most recent commit supports offline hostsāif a host cannot be reached, it is ignored. In the event that no remote hosts can be found, transcoding is done locally (on the master).
Improvements & Additional Features
Limit concurrent transcoding sessions per shared user.
Thanks a lot. Going to test it right now.
Read it. Iāll test it on my OSX.
@radar said:
Read it. Iāll test it on my OSX.
I have a few OS X machines, but I have not yet tested this on them. Let me know if you run into issues.
@radar, how did it go?
@wnielson Would it be possible for you to explain what the Port and User setting relates to when entering a new host?
@CB2131 said:
wnielson Would it be possible for you to explain what the Port and User setting relates to when entering a new host?
Remote transcode jobs are launched using SSH. Therefore, port and user refer to the SSH settings. The port will almost always be 22. On Linux the user will usual be āplexā, but on OS X the user will vary.
Also, for anyone interested, I have been working on developing an automatic scaling approach to take advantage of on demand VPS services such as EC2, GCE, DigitalOcean, etc, and will be posting a guide in the near future.
does a solution like Apache Mesos or proxmox could work too ?
@igowas said:
does a solution like Apache Mesos or proxmox could work too ?
Proxmox would work, but you would really only see performance benefits if you are using different physical hosts. At least thatās what Iāve gathered from what the Dev has posted. 
@wnielson said:
I am the developer of this project. Iāve just put together a guide here detailing how to get started with two Ubuntu machines.This is a work in progress, so feedback and bug reports are greatly appreciated.
Congrats, it is awesome that someone is devlopping this and in open source !!!
@peva said:
Proxmox would work, but you would really only see performance benefits if you are using different physical hosts. At least thatās what Iāve gathered from what the Dev has posted.
Right, I donāt see any reason why these wouldnāt work, but obviously the advantage comes from having multiple hosts for offloading transcoding too.
If you have a static collection of hosts, PRT works well as-is. If you want to be able to spin up hosts to do transcoding on demand, then more work is required. PRT supports both routes, but the second will require significant user configuration because specifics differ from platform to platform (think API differences between EC2, GCE, DigitalOcean, etc.).
Iām working on addressing the second route and am putting together a guide for doing so on DigitalOcean.
Very interested in thisā¦
Has anyone put a step by step guide on how to do this?
