Ubuntu Install

Ubuntu Install

This is a guide to get Plex Remote Transcoder setup on two Ubuntu machines. The first machine will be the master node with IP address 192.168.0.2 and the transcode slave node with IP address 192.168.0.3. This guide assumes that you have already installed the Plex Media Server (PMS) .deb package on the master. The slave should be a vanilla install of Ubuntu Server 14.04. A good way to test this out if you don't have access to multiple machines is to simply use something like VirtualBox. Let's get started.

Configure the Master Node

First off, let's install Plex Remote Transcoder:

git clone https://github.com/wnielson/Plex-Remote-Transcoder.git
cd Plex-Remote-Transcoder
sudo python setup.py install

You may need to install git (sudo apt-get install git) and setuptools (sudo apt-get install python-setuptools) if you don't already have them installed.

Now we need to configure Plex Remote Transcoder via prt

sudo prt install

You will be prompted for the IP address of the master node. In this example, it is 192.168.0.2. Behind the scenes this command will rename the original Plex New Transcoder to plex_trancoder and install a new Plex New Transcoder provided by Plex Remote Transcoder.

Now we need to tell the master about the transcode slave. We can do this via the following command

prt add_host

which will prompt you for the slave details. For our example, the values we should enter are

Host: 192.168.0.3
Port: 22
User: plex