# Remote Optimize? Optimize a server's media using another active server's resources

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-optimize-optimize-a-servers-media-using-another-active-servers-resources/589068>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [May 12, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-optimize-optimize-a-servers-media-using-another-active-servers-resources/589068 "2020-05-12T04:01:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![tech\_enthusiast\_36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@tech\_enthusiast\_36](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tech_enthusiast_36)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-optimize-optimize-a-servers-media-using-another-active-servers-resources/589068/1 "2020-05-12T04:01:48Z")

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NAS setups are becoming more incredibly common these days. Most of them require less power than PC setups and are more capable of running 24/7. Maybe Plex Media Server can implement a feature that could **optimize NAS media server files using another PC media server’s hardware that is active on the network**.

_An underpowered server with less resources will queue an un-transcodable media to another much more powerful server’s conversion queue for optimization and will ask it to send the media back as another much playable version of the previous un-transcodable media._

**Server 1: [Untranscodable Media] -\> Server 2: [Media Conversion] -\> Server 1: [Optimized Media]**

I suggest a feature to remotely optimize media in multi-server setups. A underpowered server that can’t transcode media itself (typically a NAS) will have an option to optimize the media on another more powerful server (typically a PC) for future playbacks.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-optimize-optimize-a-servers-media-using-another-active-servers-resources/589068/2 "2020-05-12T09:46:15Z")

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Very similar request: [Distributed Transcoding/Scaling](https://forums.plex.tv/t/distributed-transcoding-scaling/76681/1)

Consider closing this thread and vote on the other instead, in order to prevent spreading the votes across several threads.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-optimize-optimize-a-servers-media-using-another-active-servers-resources/589068/3 "2021-02-27T22:15:21Z")

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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-optimize-optimize-a-servers-media-using-another-active-servers-resources/589068/4 "2021-06-10T00:22:11Z")

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