Run PLEX via container station

[teckel]

@teckel When using Plex qpkg it's not recommended to use ´/share/Multimedia´ for media. I don't know it this also affects CS.

That's only true if you're using other QNAP services that use the Multimedia share. I have all of those services turned off, so the QNAP isn't constantly messing with the Multimedia share, which can confuse Plex. If you're using Plex, you shouldn't need things like Video Station, Media Streaming, Photo Station, Music Station, QAirPlay, transcoding etc. Turn all those off as you don't need them anyway and you're free to use the Muiltimedia share with Plex without issue.

Tim

[MikeLagit]

I still created my own media folders outside the qnap stock folders. The last thing I want is some firmware upgrade to come along and turn stuff on repopulating those multimedia folders with qnap thumbnails and other garbage. I just don't trust it because I've seen it before (everyone remember the thumbnails from nowhere saga??). I have all qnap multimedia features turned off, but the default multimedia folders stay empty. So I have:

/share/Music
/share/Movies

Etc. Far aways from packaged qnap media bidness.

[teckel]

I still created my own media folders outside the qnap stock folders. The last thing I want is some firmware upgrade to come along and turn stuff on repopulating those multimedia folders with qnap thumbnails and other garbage. I just don't trust it because I've seen it before (everyone remember the thumbnails from nowhere saga??). I have all qnap multimedia features turned off, but the default multimedia folders stay empty. So I have:

/share/Music
/share/Movies

Etc. Far aways from packaged qnap media bidness.

My weekly script that I use for 264-265 transcoding/renaming also removes any thumbnails, in case anyone needs it:

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/opt/bin/find /share/Multimedia/Videos/TV/ -maxdepth 4 -name "*-thumb.jpg" -exec rm {} \;

But I haven't seen anything like this in a very long time. I've uninstalled all the QNAP media apps as there of no use to me anyway. I've had zero problems using the Multimedia shares, I believe this was a very old issue that simply isn't a problem anymore (I haven't seen any issues in like 4 years).

Tim

[moody_blue]

There have been cyclic problems with the Multimedia folder. The last one was caused by "Codex Pack". So it's safer to not use Multimedia folder for QNAP media.

[MikeLagit]

@Tim

One word of advice after looking at your creation script, I'd move your dockers to /share/docker/appdata instead of using /share Container. I've seen this advice in quite a few docker forums because a Container station update or removal or config change could destroy your containers by mishap.

-ML

[MikeLagit]

Any thoughts on this topic now that Plex have released an official docker image?

https://github.com/plexinc/pms-docker/b ... /README.md

As of May 2020, the plexinc docker does not work at all, and the linuxserver io one does. Just FYI for those reading through.

[MikeLagit]

I now have mine running the docker as well. I feel a lot better about it now.

1) Plex is running protected from the system inside a docker with read-only access to my file system
2) No risk of damage if I get hacked through Plex. FACT: Plex forum has an open thread more than 5 years old now asking for basic two-factor authentication for login. It absolutely blows my mind that it's 2020 and Plex hasn't enabled this very basic security feature!!
3) Plex is running as a user inside my container and not as admin on my regular filesystem

docker pull linuxserver/plex

docker run --restart unless-stopped -d \
--name="plex" \
--restart always \
--net=host \
-e TZ="America/Chicago" \
-e PLEX_CLAIM="claim-QtZ5saMRTPrpuy" \
-e VERSION=public \
-e PUID=1010 -e PGID=100 \
-v /share/docker/appdata/linuxserver-plex/config:/config:rw \
-v /share/docker/appdata/linuxserver-plex/transcode:/transcode:rw \
-v /share/Movies/Movies:/share/Movies/Movies:ro \
linuxserver/plex

To move the QPKG over to the docker, I moved only these folders:

drwxrwxrwx 4 plex everyone 4096 2020-05-07 17:41 Codecs/
drwxrwxrwx 3 plex everyone 4096 2020-05-14 01:50 Logs/
drwxrwxrwx 3 plex everyone 4096 2018-05-10 21:01 Media/
drwxrwxrwx 6 plex everyone 4096 2018-11-25 22:19 Metadata/
drwxrwxrwx 20 plex everyone 4096 2018-12-15 17:23 Plug-ins/
drwxrwxrwx 7 plex everyone 4096 2018-05-10 20:59 Plug-in Support/
-rw-rw-rw- 1 plex everyone 1670 2020-05-14 01:42 Preferences.xml

Copy command:

[/share/docker/appdata/linuxserver-plex/config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server] # cp -av /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/Plex\ Media\ Server/[put all the dirs above here] .

Folders not needed (or optional)

drwxrwxrwx 5 plex everyone 4096 2020-05-14 01:52 Cache/
drwxrwxrwx 3 plex everyone 4096 2020-05-14 00:44 Crash Reports/

[BigOldBoy]

Hey guys, I am late to docker game and just learning, however got it running (and a bunch of other services) running in container station using create. The main reason I was forced to do this is my dvr was all messed up. I have 2 HDHR turners and 2 IPTV services with xTeVe. Somehow, plex got all messed up and my dvr would not work for more than a couple of hours. I am happy I got this running.

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version: "2.1"
services:
  plex:
    image: linuxserver/plex
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - TZ=AMERICA/TORONTO
      - PUID=0
      - PGID=0
      - VERSION=docker
      - PLEX_CLAIM= #optional
    volumes:
      - /share/Cloud/docker/plex:/config
      - /share/Television/Building:/qtv
      - /share/Movies/To File on USB:/qmovies
      - /share/Music:/qmusic
      - /share/Music Videos:/qmusicvideos
    restart: unless-stopped

[nasuserj]

Critical: libusb_init failed

version: "3"
services:
plex:
image: linuxserver/plex
container_name: plex
user: 0:0
network_mode: "host"
volumes:
- /share/admin/jellyfin/config:/config
- /share/admin/jellyfin/cache:/cache
- /share/admin/video:/media
- /share/admin/tv:/tv
- /share/admin/movies:/movies
- /share/admin/video/jellyfish:/jellyfish

[nasuserj]

Hi,
I am getting an error " plex docker Critical: libusb_init failed". Can someone tell me what causes the error?


version: "2.1"
services:
plex:
image: linuxserver/plex
container_name: plex
network_mode: host
environment:
- TZ=America/St_Johns
- PUID=0
- PGID=0
- VERSION=docker
volumes:
- /share/admin/plex/transcode:/transcode
- /share/admin/plex/config:/config
- /share/admin/plex/cache:/cache
- /share/admin/video:/media
- /share/admin/tv:/tv
- /share/admin/movies:/movies
- /share/admin/video/jellyfish:/jellyfish

[Cbrad01]

The problem I have with plex in a container is hardware transcoding with the nivida graphics card.


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[nasuserj]

Did you get plex to work?

[Alez_G]

I got the "Critical: libusb_init failed" as well. I was concerned because I couldn't access plex. I assume this error message was the cause because it was the last message on the terminal. This error message isn't a big deal unless you use a USB turner. The issue was that when was I was accessing plex server locally using IP and port the webpage displayed: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. "

The solution was to add "/web" to the end of my url when accessing. So my url looks like this: http://*ipaddress*:32400/web

I also prefer to mount my whole media share oppose to each individual folder. So my scrip looked like this:

...
-e TZ="America/Los_Angeles" \
-v /share/Container/linuxserver-plex/config:/config:rw \
-v /share/Container/linuxserver-plex/transcode:/transcode:rw \
-v /share/Media:/data/Media:rw \
linuxserver/plex

[lucam1970]

Hope this helps another Docker noob!

Hi,
I'm a docker noob....
May you help me tranforming your script in a "docker compose" format?
It could be easier for me ...
thank you

edit:
sorry, I didn’t see the post of @BigOldBoy

[addwal]

anyone able to get the latest plexpass / beta version working with nvidia hw transcoding via docker?

I'm getting the following error and plex fails to start:

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Error relocating /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: drmGetDevices2: symbol not found