My personal setup here at home is that i have a QNAP NAS that holds my content and runs the PMS. The NAS runs 24/7. The NAS has a quad core atom CPU, which makes anything needing transcoding pretty much useless to me. Meanwhile i have several computers in my home, that are on when used. Thes…

I'm using a low powered linux machine with a celeron G540 for my PMS. It's capable of transcoding one 1080p stream. It's nice, if another transcode comes along, it just can't cope. This machine runs all the linux home server goodies you can think of. I also have an i7 iMac which whoops some serious …

what if, instead of some crazy asleep/awake elastic main-frame type setup, if you could run zencoder or encoding.com as a cloud-based extension, much like the cloud playback currently available to plexpass? That would let you offload encoding entirely, save for on-the-fly transcoding, and allow you …

Your NAS box is weak. yet is a perfect fileserver. you wish it to do the tasks of the an i3 of transcoding, but it can’t. forget all this off loading to another box malarkey. if you want capability at your fingertips. then you got to upgrade! surely a 4th gen i3 underclocked with an SSD and all th…

what if, instead of some crazy asleep/awake elastic main-frame type setup, if you could run zencoder or encoding.com as a cloud-based extension, much like the cloud playback currently available to plexpass? That would let you offload encoding entirely, save for on-the-fly transcoding, and allow yo…

forget all this off loading to another box malarkey. if you want capability at your fingertips. then you got to upgrade! Restructuring the transcoding as this thread requests would likely open the door to third party transcoding agents -- allowing one to create an agent for Intel Quick Sync (an…

Restructuring the transcoding as this thread requests would likely open the door to third party transcoding agents -- allowing one to create an agent for Intel Quick Sync (another request from NAS users) and the like, without having to wait for Plex. May be malarkey to you, but I think it's just …

Just seems a lot of work that Plex wouldn't want to do? It has PMS and PHT. Why would it want to setup slave PMT's [Plex Media Transcoders] that PMS can already do itself? I mean, even XBMC [KODI] just does direct play. It's not even interested in transcoding. The idea behind Plex is to keep it si…

I like the idea, my current server is only really capable of streaming to a few devices at the same time, the idea I could turn on my gaming rig and have it serve as a client to help out sounds very cool. But then again AMD's AM1 and some Intel Celerons CPU TDP is reaching Atom territory, my AMD 53…

+1 this would be a great way to maximize all the idle computers hanging about on my network.

Technically this is already doable / done when a shared library is used over DLNA -- tho it depends on if it would be more cost effective to transcode locally and push the raw file over the net, or transcode remotely and serve the transcoded stream by proxy on DLNA.... i wonder....

[REQUEST] Transcoding agents.

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[REQUEST] Transcoding agents.

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