access done even from my office now. i have only to set up devices. what you use to protect port from external access?
I donโt expose it, but if you do, use Nginx Proxy Manager
@tteck I migrated Plex from my Nvidia Shield Pro to LXC using your script. As soon as I created the container, I noticed it was Ubuntu, then I installed Intel drivers through the script.
I then installed vainfo and checked versions:
root@plex:~# vainfo
error: can't connect to X server!
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.6.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 20.1.1 ()
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
Then I went on my docker LXC where I migrated frigate and had to manually passthrough the intel gpu with some modifications to the container config file, it is based on your LXC debian script:
root@traefik:~# vainfo
error: can't connect to X server!
libva info: VA-API version 1.10.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_10
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.10 (libva 2.10.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 21.1.1 ()
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
Versions are probably more updated on debian 11 because itโs a lot newer than Ubuntu 20.04. But it was nice to see that /dev/dri/renderD128 was already passed-through without modifications in the container, you accomplished that in the installation script? Does Plex support Ubuntu 21.x?
On my docker container, I didnโt install all those intel drivers, just did an apt install va-driver-all and debian installed all the latest intel driversโฆI think this should work on Ubuntu tooโฆ
root@traefik:~# apt info va-driver-all
Package: va-driver-all
Version: 2.10.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: video
Source: libva
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 24.6 kB
Depends: i965-va-driver | i965-va-driver-shaders, intel-media-va-driver | intel-media-va-driver-non-free, mesa-va-drivers
Homepage: https://01.org/linuxmedia/vaapi
Download-Size: 15.3 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://ftp.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
Description: Video Acceleration (VA) API -- driver metapackage
This package depends on the full suite of drivers for the Video Acceleration
API (VA API). It does not provide any drivers itself, and may be removed if
you wish to only have certain drivers installed.
Thanks for the info! I personally donโt have Intel CPU on my laptop so I couldnโt test. Testing was done by a few in the issues-feature request from my repo the script originally was using Debian but someone mentioned that Ubuntu 20 would work. Once I got it working, and no way to test myself, I just left it. May give you a shout later if youโre willing to test.
Ubuntu was advised probably because Plex officially supports only Ubuntu & Fedora: Using Hardware-Accelerated Streaming | Plex Support
But I read that the best Ubuntu version, with latest driver packages, is 21.x, and it also has a newer kernel that provides some benefit for the Plex container.
If you can prepare the same container, but with Ubuntu 21.x with all the needed modifications you did for 20.x, I can also test if installing only the va-driver-all metapackage is enough, so you can skip the extra intel drivers script.
If we want to have fun, we could also test the same container, but based on Debian 11. I bet it would work fine.
Ready for testing in dev branch. Ubuntu 21.10 with va-driver-all pre installed
My install with Ubuntu 21.10 and va-driver-all
root@plex:~# vainfo
error: can't connect to X server!
libva info: VA-API version 1.12.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_12
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.12 (libva 2.10.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 21.2.2 for AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0, 5.13.19-3-pve, LLVM 12.0.1)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
Great! As I imagined, Ubuntu 21.10 is way better in terms of updates. Youโre on AMD? Howโs HW encoding/decoding doing with Plex?
Can I update my container to 21.10 or do I have to restart from scratch? All data is in the containerโฆdonโt want to start scraping my 3800 movies againโฆ
Yes AMD. I still use Nvidia Shield for my PMS, havenโt tried it on Proxmox as my main PMS
I think Iโll do a PR, beings everything seems to work and with newer drivers.
Sorry a reinstall is required to get 21.10
Believe me, PMS in the LXC is incredible: it scraped all my movie library on the NAS in 10 minutesโฆon the Shield it takes 3 hours minimum. And cpu/mem usage is very very lowโฆincredible. After all the mess with Plex and Android 11 update on the Shield, I decided to migrate yesterday. Will use the Shield only as a plex client. 
Yesterday I got a deal for a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910x (i7-6700 with ambedded Intel HD 530 gpu, plus AMD Radeon RX 560, so I was checking if Plex supports AMD and found out itโs not officially supported, but thanks to this guy, that made a nice docker container version, it works:
Hereโs the docker repo: mauimauer/spritsail-plex - Docker Image | Docker Hub
And hereโs the github repo: GitHub - mauimauer/spritsail-plex-media-server: Worlds smallest Docker image for Plex Media Server, built on spritsail/busybox
Analyzing his dockerfile, you should be able to convert his install to an LXC probablyโฆ
Now I have to check where Plex saves its data so I can back it up and migrate it to the 21.10 container.
Use Webmin to browse to it and download 
the problem is not transferring it, but identifying it.
tar is so efficient for these thingsโฆ
Canโt remember if Webmin automatically compresses with .tar or .zip when downloading
Let me know how things go.
you want to do a Plex transfer script? 
Iโll let you knowโฆ
forward the data pathsโฆ Iโll create it
For Debian/Ubuntu Itโs only one folder, it contains everything, data & settings:
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So the Plex script now implements my recommendations? Can I run it to create the new PMS? Iโm backing up data nowโฆ
BTW: are you on Discord?
Yes
scriptโs ready 
bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tteck/Proxmox/main/misc/pms-copy-data.sh)"
yep
Iโll check it. In the destination server, PMS should be stopped before copying data, and restarted when transfer is complete.
tagname is the same?
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