raspberry pi plex media server transcoding

The default is /home/pi/plex-media-server-ffmpeg/ffmpegĪ list of profiles indexed by name that are being used to adjust the plex parameters. The following options are available:ĭefines the ffmpeg executable that is invoked with the altered parameters. An example can be found in this repository as instructed to download above. The wrapper ffmpeg-transcode will replace the plex parameters according to the configuration file ffmpeg-transcode.yaml. Move the backup of the original plex transcoder script /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder Backup back into its proper place at /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder (will ask for superuser permissions).

uninstall.sh which will do the following:

Put a symlink in its place that will redirect all encoding calls to this projects wrapper script (will ask for superuser permissions).

Remove the original plex transcoder script /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder (will ask for superuser permissions).

Create a backup of the original plex transcoder script /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder as /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder Backup if not already present (will ask for superuser permissions).

If you want to manually adjust the configure parameters you can do so in the first few lines of the compile.sh script.

Configure and compile the ffmpeg source code.

Install all required dependencies (will ask for superuser permissions).

Download the latest version of the plex-ffmpeg forks source code.Cp '/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder' ~/plex-backup/Ĭompiling plex ffmpeg with custom optionsįirst of all make sure you are in the directory of this projects git repository.

Raspberry pi plex media server transcoding