trans-coding server switch ?

Feature Suggestions
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would it be possible in the future to have a seperate trans-coding / encoding client assigned to 1 plex server?

 

I'm running my plex server on a NAS and notice it's not very quick in optimizing the files for streaming.

My workstation is 4.0Ghz hexacore that does this fluently.

 

however, I don't want it to always be on just in case I want to watch a movie when I'm out of the house on a tablet.

 

Thus it would be great to have the main database and converting done on the machine where the server is installed,

but also to be able to add an additional server (within the same local network) to temporarily be assigned to take over all encoding work.

 

Currently I'd have to run 2 plex servers (and with it build up 2 databases of indexed files).

It would be great if there was a seperate encoding version that connects to an already existing database in the same local network.

 

 

Is this something that might happen in the near future?

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Yes, I'd like something like that too, I'm in the same boat. My nas is not really beefy, but there is always at least one other computer running in my network that could be used for stuff like that.

Jenkins CI does something like that for running compile jobs. Very handy. You just assign one or more 'worker nodes', and it farms out cpu- intensive tasks to those.

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I had the same idea as well. I have a Synology DS412+ which can do the job but if you want to stream several movies at the same time it is laggy! I have a simple HTPC with a AMD X1 fusion and it is waaaaaay faster to transcode so it would be nice to use it to transcode as it is almost always on as well.

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Already requested here: https://forums.plex.tv/topic/61278-feature-request-separate-computer-for-transcoding-vs-streaming/

'like' the first post to vote it up

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done!

+ This could also be a potential promising thread > https://forums.plex.tv/topic/93083-allow-path-for-transcoder-executable-to-be-overridden/

(thnx to MCboss86 for pointing it out in another thread)

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2021 clean-up: duplicate (see above)