5 Ways to optimize your Plex Media Server

These are 5 different things you can do to either make your #Plex #Media #server run faster, or give you better quality transcodes!

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[Doramius]

1:09 - Transcoder Quality
3:10 - RAM Transcoding
5:53 - Background x.264 Encoding
8:31 - Generate Video Preview Thumbnails
10:17 - Store Plex Metadata on an SSD

[bayboy]

Idk if yall heard but he has a powerful server

[olizelda]

9:00 Whoa whoa whoa, you're spoiling Back To The Future for me!

[imbadatthis]

never knew about the RAM transcoding, have now set it up! thanks for that. having 30gb of spare ram is now no longer pointless!

[IanSinclair]

The RAM disk stood out for me...will have a tinker tonight. Cheers for that - all good tips.

[asdf]

Loved the blooper at the end. Thanks for the tip on transcoding in RAM. Excellent idea, will get moar RAM and do this in my NAS. I’m building out Plex on a QNAP, so it’s getting installed on an NVMe volume. I’ll do, if possible on the QNAP, the ram disk thing. Media is on a RAID 6 HDD pool, and that appears fast enough to be able to serve the content without issue.

[chuffy-t]

Thank you for this video! It is still worthy 3 years later.

[DarioCruzII]

The Tip for Ram transcoding really helped my boost my plex server to the next level, Thanks for the Tip! 👍👍

[AVUSA]

I see a lot of unanswered questions and comments that we can still hear crickets on. I checked the YouTubers videos, and he’s still making “content” so apparently he’s still attempting to grow his channel. However, ghosting and ignoring viewers for three years is the way NOT to do it.

[gmc]

I set up a plex server on an old (about 5 years old) Intel NUC with an I3 CPU running Ubuntu server. It's got a 2T SSD. Performance is fantastic. The hardest part is ripping all the DVD's that I've bought or rented over the years.

[robertt]

Transcoding to ram to save wear and tear on SSDs is exactly what I want to do. I don't know how much it really speeds things up, but the wear and tear over SSDs seems more than worthwhile.

[OctaeveusWinters]

Thank you for all that you are teaching us. I appreciate it.

[B.Fenderer]

Keep in mind that /tmp is not always on the ram. So first make sure it is on the ram on your linux server, or modify /etc/fstab to mount it in the ram, otherwise there will be no difference :). Great video thanks

[itsmepale]

I'm sitting here running plex on my windows gaming pc, lol

[Khormologia]

Hi, when you said that the metada should be stored on SSD how did you do that ? did you install all the plex-software into your ssd ? then jailed it ?

[sch]

Just a quick suggestion about watching episodes that you may have synced. I set to sync my shows but I select "unwatched only" and limit to 5-10 items. That way as I watch the shows it will delete them from my phone then sync the next epsiode.

[BrooksyTech]

Jason always rocking the good plex tips!

[godyourestupid_]

RAM Transcoding .. holy shit that improved the performance of my movies! Since I run dual Hyper-V's of plex I made a VRAM drive on the server and then shared it out to the Hyper-V's for Plex. It runs so much better! Thank you so much! Great video!

[nightgyr]

great tips, thanks! Your video popped up, I imagined a russian voice (weird I know), until I heard that perfect English... thanks again!

[mnf]

Thank you so much for the information regarding temp file. My transcoding went from 12x to 500x!!!!