While attending Nebraska Code a few years back, one of the speakers mentioned the Jetson Nano. I thought I might try it out so I bought off Amazon while he was still speaking. I ended up later buying a second one and building them both out. What should I do with them?
Well, as it turns out, the only thing I ever did with these things was to load Docker on them both and launch a container that contained a Spring Batch Job. That job reads from Rabbit MQ, receives a specific file from the file share, launches FFMPEG and converts the file to a smaller MP4. It also removes the original when it successfully completes.
When Plex records an OTA show, it writes out a TS file. These files are very large in size and quite frankly they don’t need to be (IMHO). These two Nano machines just sit there in the background and churn away at any recorded files which are eventually added into the database sometime after they are finished.
This solution will scale quite easily but after recently scoping another kit out on Amazon, I can see the price has tripled. I can now get a new laptop cheaper. Rats. I really don’t need anything more in this pool either so it’s all good.