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+Plex Elastic Transcoder
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+This is a simple tool that should be used in place of the "Plex New Transcoder" binary on your Plex Media Server host in order to distribute the load of Plex transcoding.
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+It works by scheduling a job on a Kubernetes cluster, with the appropriate media and transcode directories exported via NFS to the transcoding containers.
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