Hello everyone, Today we are releasing the UnicornTranscoder, it’s a project composed of 3 software to create a fully scalable Plex transcoding cluster. The project is written in NodeJS. The three components are: UnicornLoadBalancer: It is installed in front of Plex Media Server, it will catch th…

Does this software take advantage of GPUs that are in a system or does it strictly only use CPU for the transcoding?

Not actually, feel free to make a pull request to support it

Do you mean that you have set this all up on a windows 10 machine? That’s what mine is running on and I want to try this out on there.

Will this work on Windows 10 machines?

In docker it works. We don’t support windows natively at the moment. Feel free to make a PR to support it

[image] duhasst: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/ Hi there, ist the latest version compatible with Plex (linux) Server 1.18.8.2527

Unicorn Transcoder 2.4.0 / Load Balancer 2.4.2 Changelog Fix major DASH issue (since an old ffmpeg update) Update mkdirp dependency (Security) Remove unused parameter in config.js Update notes about Plex Relay Support Plex 1.18.8.2527-740d4c206 Update notes Shutdown your transcoder/load-balancer U…

Unicorn Transcoder 2.4.2 Changelog Support Plex 1.18.9.2578-513b381af We have a sexy logo now :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: Update notes Shutdown your transcoder/load-balancer Update Plex to 1.18.9.2578-513b381af Remove Plex Relay Pull the 2.4.2 version npm i npm run install restart […

@Maxou44 I’ve got a lot going on over here. How can I help your team get GPU based hardware encoding working on this?

To support this feature we need time, we don’t use hardware transcoding on our side, it will be really complicated to support :thinking:

[Release] UnicornTranscoder, create a Plex Transcoding Cluster

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It could be possible but you need to patch the code, it’s not supported yet

Two NAS. One Library. CPU load balancing

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[Release] UnicornTranscoder, create a Plex Transcoding Cluster

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