I have found a few posts in my brief searches, but nothing recent. Has anyone tried running Plex in Enterprise? I have a couple gen8 dl360p machines with 24 threads, 64gb ram, and 10g to the core in the MDF & 1g to the 6 IDFs.
My environment is for a nursing home of about 400 residents. They would be connecting via devices such as Roku sticks and smart TVs. They would be connected via meraki mr45 wifi 6 APs with 1g links to the LDFs.
Due to the way our infrastructure is, and the current pandemic, our residents are stuck in their rooms with little to no entertainment. Spinning up a Plex server or 2 to help, in my opinion is a quick and dirty solution, but I am concerned about the capsbilities.
I use Plex server at home on an older Dell poweredge, and my network is the bottleneck (family of 5 who all want to stream over wifi5) with the Enterprise gear available at work, that shouldn’t be the limiting factor.
What do you see as some issues I will run into? My guess is the unpredictable amount of transcodes will be my downfall, but I’d like to hear your thoughts.
Edit: typos
I run a very similar setup, but I have 4 bonded 1Gb uplinks to my switch. It is overkill for my home. You are correct that transcodes will be your biggest headache. A single 4K transcode can utilize 40% of my cpus. I also see spikes with h.265 transcodes. Keep your videos at 720p with AAC or AC3 audio using h.264 and you shouldn’t see a whole lot of problems with the dl360p. I have had 6 simultaneous streams and I don’t see a blip in the cpus, memory or network. Again, overkill for my home.
^^^ This
Go for stereo audio only.
If your source is a surround sound format, try to apply compression and attenuate the center channel during downmix.
You can modify the parameters in this post to achieve a file with one audio track only.
If you have subtitles, convert them to SRT format, because it is the one which doesn’t require transcoding on most client types.
can you keep this thread updated on your progress. working on something similar and would love feedback and experience. particularly on what your source is for content and 400 users/devices on one account.
From a licensing point, I urge you to reach out to https://www.plex.tv/contact/?option=plex-pass-billing
because Plex is neither allowed to be used commercially, nor are more than 100 shared users supported by default.
And cramming 400 devices into one account means performance issues and that all devices will share their playback progress and history and subtitle selections etc.
are there any commercial applications and licensing being done with plex?
For non-profit organizations and educative organizations there have already been special agreements in the past.
You need to ask as well, if you want to use Plex professionally. Please use the above link.
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