Server Version#: 1.19.5.2889-52a517a93 (and older) FreeNAS. FreeBSD version manually installed in a jail. TLDR: I think Plex Transcoder is being unnecessarily throttled by PMS when processing background media tasks. I modified the Transcoder binary to test this theory, with great results. Generat…

1.19.4.2935, optimization/preview/intro jobs aren’t permanently throttled any more. Nice. I’ll split my comments about optimizer job settings to another thread. I found other optimizer job settings that don’t work at all, too.

Transcoder background tasks being throttled

Plex Media Server

Volts June 9, 2020, 9:52pm 9

Per comments in another thread, a fix may be on the way.

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Transcoder background tasks being throttled

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