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Getting Playback Error: This server is not powerful enough to convert video.

See original GitHub issue

Hi,

I have done my best to configure my plex (running on a pi 3b+) to offload the transcoding tasks (which it obviously sucks at) to my other more powerful machine(s). I have created the following layout:

Pi: Plex server, UnicornLoadBalancer, Nginx reverse proxy to handle TLS and stuffs Other machine: Media library (mounted to the pi), pure Debian VM for the UnicornTranscoder with the 3000 port forwarded into it from the host (so should make no difference)

The transcoder works, and is accessible via both it’s internal ip (localhost:3000 from the host, to verify the portforward would work) and it’s external domain. Gives the neat 'You did things right after spending the night setting this up` purple page.

I have dropped port 32400 on the pi, moved the /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Relay file and replaced the /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder with the generated one.

However. When I try to start a transcode task (aka running a high-bitrate movie from a browser), I get the error:

Playback Error:
This server is not powerful enough to convert video.

Ehh what now? I am not really sure what logs to provide you with (nor really how to get them out of the software 😃), but any guidance would be much appreciated! The error would make me guess that I did in fact change the Plex Transcoder to something different; but it’s getting confused at recognizing the running transcoder? I can at least confirm that the transcoder is receiving no requests by keeping an eye on the nginx logs.

The next step would be for it to try to probe multiple machines for the transcoding tasks (e.g. multiple desktops/laptops around the house to see which ones are up); is this something unicorn can handle?