linuxserver/plex¶
Plex organizes video, music and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to smart TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices. This container is packaged as a standalone Plex Media Server. Straightforward design and bulk actions mean getting things done faster.
Supported Architectures¶
We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.
Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.
The architectures supported by this image are:
| Architecture | Available | Tag |
|---|---|---|
| x86-64 | ✅ | amd64-<version tag> |
| arm64 | ✅ | arm64v8-<version tag> |
| armhf | ❌ |
Application Setup¶
Webui can be found at <your-ip>:32400/web
Note
If there is no value set for the VERSION variable, then no updates will take place.
Note
For new users, no updates will take place on the first run of the container as there is no preferences file to read your token from, to update restart the Docker container after logging in through the webui.
Valid settings for VERSION are:-
Info
YOU CANNOT UPDATE TO A PLEXPASS ONLY (BETA) VERSION IF YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN WITH A PLEXPASS ACCOUNT.
docker: Let Docker handle the Plex Version, we keep our Dockerhub Endpoint up to date with the latest public builds. This is the same as leaving this setting out of your create command.latest: will update plex to the latest version available that you are entitled to.public: will update plexpass users to the latest public version, useful for plexpass users that don't want to be on the bleeding edge but still want the latest public updates.<specific-version>: will select a specific version (eg 0.9.12.4.1192-9a47d21) of plex to install, note you cannot use this to access plexpass versions if you do not have plexpass.
Hardware Acceleration¶
Many desktop applications need access to a GPU to function properly and even some Desktop Environments have compositor effects that will not function without a GPU. However this is not a hard requirement and all base images will function without a video device mounted into the container.
Intel/ATI/AMD¶
To leverage hardware acceleration you will need to mount /dev/dri video device inside of the container.
--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri
+ plex - LinuxServer.io linuxserver/plex¶
Plex organizes video, music and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to smart TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices. This container is packaged as a standalone Plex Media Server. Straightforward design and bulk actions mean getting things done faster.
Supported Architectures¶
We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.
Simply pulling lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.
The architectures supported by this image are:
Architecture Available Tag x86-64 ✅ amd64-<version tag> arm64 ✅ arm64v8-<version tag> armhf ❌
Application Setup¶
Webui can be found at <your-ip>:32400/web
Note
If there is no value set for the VERSION variable, then no updates will take place.
Note
For new users, no updates will take place on the first run of the container as there is no preferences file to read your token from, to update restart the Docker container after logging in through the webui.
Valid settings for VERSION are:-
Info
YOU CANNOT UPDATE TO A PLEXPASS ONLY (BETA) VERSION IF YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN WITH A PLEXPASS ACCOUNT.
docker: Let Docker handle the Plex Version, we keep our Dockerhub Endpoint up to date with the latest public builds. This is the same as leaving this setting out of your create command.latest: will update plex to the latest version available that you are entitled to.public: will update plexpass users to the latest public version, useful for plexpass users that don't want to be on the bleeding edge but still want the latest public updates.<specific-version>: will select a specific version (eg 0.9.12.4.1192-9a47d21) of plex to install, note you cannot use this to access plexpass versions if you do not have plexpass.
Hardware Acceleration¶
Many desktop applications need access to a GPU to function properly and even some Desktop Environments have compositor effects that will not function without a GPU. However this is not a hard requirement and all base images will function without a video device mounted into the container.
Intel/ATI/AMD¶
To leverage hardware acceleration you will need to mount /dev/dri video device inside of the container.
We will automatically ensure the abc user inside of the container has the proper permissions to access this device.
Nvidia¶
Hardware acceleration users for Nvidia will need to install the container runtime provided by Nvidia on their host, instructions can be found here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit
We automatically add the necessary environment variable that will utilise all the features available on a GPU on the host. Once nvidia-container-toolkit is installed on your host you will need to re/create the docker container with the nvidia container runtime --runtime=nvidia and add an environment variable -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all (can also be set to a specific gpu's UUID, this can be discovered by running nvidia-smi --query-gpu=gpu_name,gpu_uuid --format=csv ). NVIDIA automatically mounts the GPU and drivers from your host into the container.
Arm Devices¶
Best effort is made to install tools to allow mounting in /dev/dri on Arm devices. In most cases if /dev/dri exists on the host it should just work. If running a Raspberry Pi 4 be sure to enable dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d in your usercfg.txt.
Usage¶
To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli.
docker-compose (recommended, click here for more info)¶
The ARM variants can be built on x86_64 hardware using multiarch/qemu-user-static
Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.
Versions¶
- 18.07.24: - Rebase to Ubuntu Noble.
- 12.02.24: - Use universal hardware acceleration blurb
- 09.01.24: - Set ownership on TranscoderTempDirectory when it's been saved in Preferences.
- 16.08.23: - Install unrar from linuxserver repo.
- 03.07.23: - Deprecate armhf. As announced here
- 16.10.22: - Rebase to jammy. Update to s6v3. Remove opencl packages (bundled with plex).
- 18.07.22: - Pin all opencl related driver packages.
- 16.05.22: - Pin opencl version.
- 04.03.22: - Increase verbosity of video device permissions fix, attempt to fix missing group rw.
- 25.12.21: - Install Intel drivers from the official repo.
- 20.01.21: - Deprecate
UMASK_SET in favor of UMASK in baseimage, see above for more information. - 10.12.20: - Add latest Intel Compute packages from github repo for opencl support on latest gen igpu.
- 23.11.20: - Add Bionic branch make Focal default.
- 03.05.20: - Update exposed ports and example docs for bridge mode.
- 23.03.20: - Remove udev hack (no longer needed), suppress uuid error in log during first start.
- 04.12.19: - Add variable for setting PLEX_CLAIM. Remove
/transcode volume mapping as it is now set via plex gui and defaults to a location under /config. - 06.08.19: - Add variable for setting UMASK.
- 10.07.19: - Fix permissions for tuner (/dev/dvb) devices.
- 20.05.19: - Bugfix do not allow Root group for Intel QuickSync ownership rules.
- 23.03.19: - Switching to new Base images, shift to arm32v7 tag.
- 22.03.19: - Fix update logic for
VERSION=public. - 14.03.19: - Switch to new api endpoints, enable beta (plex pass) updates for armhf and aarch64.
- 15.02.19: - Clean up plex pid after unclean stop.
- 11.02.19: - Fix nvidia variables, add device variables.
- 16.01.19: - Add pipeline logic, multi arch, and HW transcoding configuration; remove avahi service.
- 07.09.18: - Rebase to ubuntu bionic, add udev package.
- 09.12.17: - Fix continuation lines.
- 12.07.17: - Add inspect commands to README, move to jenkins build and push.
- 28.05.17: - Add unrar package as per requests, for subzero plugin.
- 11.01.17: - Use Plex environment variables from pms docker, change abc home folder to /app to alleviate usermod chowning library
- 03.01.17: - Use case insensitive version variable matching rather than export and make lowercase.
- 17.10.16: - Allow use of uppercase version variable
- 01.10.16: - Add TZ info to README.
- 09.09.16: - Add layer badges to README.
- 27.08.16: - Add badges to README.
- 22.08.16: - Rebased to xenial and s6 overlay
- 07.04.16: - removed
/transcode volume support (upstream Plex change) and modified PlexPass download method to prevent unauthorised usage of paid PMS - 24.09.15: - added optional support for volume transcoding (/transcode), and various typo fixes.
- 17.09.15: - Changed to run chmod only once
- 19.09.15: - Plex updated their download servers from http to https
- 28.08.15: - Removed plexpass from routine, and now uses VERSION as a combination fix.
- 18.07.15: - Moved autoupdate to be hosted by linuxserver.io and implemented bugfix thanks to ljm42.
- 09.07.15: - Now with ability to pick static version number.
- 08.07.15: - Now with autoupdates. (Hosted by fanart.tv)
- 03.07.15: - Fixed a mistake that allowed plex to run as user plex rather than abc (99:100). Thanks to double16 for spotting this.
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+Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with -f Dockerfile.aarch64.
Versions¶
- 18.07.24: - Rebase to Ubuntu Noble.
- 12.02.24: - Use universal hardware acceleration blurb
- 09.01.24: - Set ownership on TranscoderTempDirectory when it's been saved in Preferences.
- 16.08.23: - Install unrar from linuxserver repo.
- 03.07.23: - Deprecate armhf. As announced here
- 16.10.22: - Rebase to jammy. Update to s6v3. Remove opencl packages (bundled with plex).
- 18.07.22: - Pin all opencl related driver packages.
- 16.05.22: - Pin opencl version.
- 04.03.22: - Increase verbosity of video device permissions fix, attempt to fix missing group rw.
- 25.12.21: - Install Intel drivers from the official repo.
- 20.01.21: - Deprecate
UMASK_SETin favor of UMASK in baseimage, see above for more information. - 10.12.20: - Add latest Intel Compute packages from github repo for opencl support on latest gen igpu.
- 23.11.20: - Add Bionic branch make Focal default.
- 03.05.20: - Update exposed ports and example docs for bridge mode.
- 23.03.20: - Remove udev hack (no longer needed), suppress uuid error in log during first start.
- 04.12.19: - Add variable for setting PLEX_CLAIM. Remove
/transcodevolume mapping as it is now set via plex gui and defaults to a location under/config. - 06.08.19: - Add variable for setting UMASK.
- 10.07.19: - Fix permissions for tuner (/dev/dvb) devices.
- 20.05.19: - Bugfix do not allow Root group for Intel QuickSync ownership rules.
- 23.03.19: - Switching to new Base images, shift to arm32v7 tag.
- 22.03.19: - Fix update logic for
VERSION=public. - 14.03.19: - Switch to new api endpoints, enable beta (plex pass) updates for armhf and aarch64.
- 15.02.19: - Clean up plex pid after unclean stop.
- 11.02.19: - Fix nvidia variables, add device variables.
- 16.01.19: - Add pipeline logic, multi arch, and HW transcoding configuration; remove avahi service.
- 07.09.18: - Rebase to ubuntu bionic, add udev package.
- 09.12.17: - Fix continuation lines.
- 12.07.17: - Add inspect commands to README, move to jenkins build and push.
- 28.05.17: - Add unrar package as per requests, for subzero plugin.
- 11.01.17: - Use Plex environment variables from pms docker, change abc home folder to /app to alleviate usermod chowning library
- 03.01.17: - Use case insensitive version variable matching rather than export and make lowercase.
- 17.10.16: - Allow use of uppercase version variable
- 01.10.16: - Add TZ info to README.
- 09.09.16: - Add layer badges to README.
- 27.08.16: - Add badges to README.
- 22.08.16: - Rebased to xenial and s6 overlay
- 07.04.16: - removed
/transcodevolume support (upstream Plex change) and modified PlexPass download method to prevent unauthorised usage of paid PMS - 24.09.15: - added optional support for volume transcoding (/transcode), and various typo fixes.
- 17.09.15: - Changed to run chmod only once
- 19.09.15: - Plex updated their download servers from http to https
- 28.08.15: - Removed plexpass from routine, and now uses VERSION as a combination fix.
- 18.07.15: - Moved autoupdate to be hosted by linuxserver.io and implemented bugfix thanks to ljm42.
- 09.07.15: - Now with ability to pick static version number.
- 08.07.15: - Now with autoupdates. (Hosted by fanart.tv)
- 03.07.15: - Fixed a mistake that allowed plex to run as user plex rather than abc (99:100). Thanks to double16 for spotting this.