Pi Cluster and Plex

[Lithros]

I was watching videos about people building Pi Clusters and was wondering if there would be a benefit to making a cluster for a Plex server?

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can't cluster plux unless you consider multiple different plex servers to work as a cluster.

[Lithros]

For instance having one for video and another for music? So the current Pis can't share the load of transcoding?

[Windows7ge]

36 minutes ago, Lithros said:

For instance having one for video and another for music? So the current Pis can't share the load of transcoding?

I think it's more of an issue of serial vs parallel processing. Transcoding a video would be a serial operation. As data is requested it gets transcoded and sent out one chunk at a time by a single worker (CPU). You can't parallelize a process like that across multiple CPUs. It's a single data stream. To increase the performance of that you'd have to overclock the CPU adding CPUs wouldn't do much (or anything). Now if you needed multiple data streams then a cluster would theoretically work by giving each CPU the task of handling it's own data stream but even then it probably wouldn't work the way you'd hope it would.

[Lithros]

Thanks for the replies!