How To Get a Plex Server Docker Container on Synology Quickly!

[@jordant2]

I don’t have a Synology NAS, but I love docker, and I enjoy Lon’s videos. I’ve been running Plex in docker with hardware transcoding for years.

[@YazzyJ718]

You explained this clearly that I was able to migrate from DSM to docker for Plex and then use these similar steps to setup another docker

[@FrickDude824]

This is a great guide. I bet a lot of people don't have a NAS but can get their hands on a decently powerful but older machine and a guide on how to do the same video converting a old tower to a home server and get docker setup on it. That's where I'm at currently.

[@botsang13]

Thank you! I had alwasys set up my plex as a regular container in my synology but now I got hardware transcoding working!

[@semsuc9006]

Great video! But how do I map container volumes to shared folders on synology nas?

[@jgz2]

Great video. Thanks Lon. I have a ton of Movies and TV shows on the native Synology 7.2 plex app. DS920+ Works well. I've been correcting cover art and fixing matches for years. But... Here's my concern! I'm afraid the docker method will require a whole new scraping from Vol1 and subsequent fixes. Can I avoid the new scrape and just copy all the OLD Synology Appdata into the new docker Appdata? Thanks

[@LonSeidman]

I think if you copy the entire meta data folder over per this video you should be ok without a new scraping: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3KXeIClirplkMk

[@streets28mm]

Well, thank to you lots of my questions were answered and I set up my plex with my Nas. A couple of questions left if I may! My old setup was with my Shield and the plex was set in a removable SSD drive attached to Shield, that would feed three TVs, one attached to and run by shield, the other two run by google tv and fire stick! After watching a tv show I could delete the show right at plex player by long clicking on the episode. With NAS set up, I am not able to delete any files unless I go to NAS file station and delete the file that way, any suggestions?

[@MarcusOSullivan123]

Just a quick question, Now that Ubiquiti UNAS Drive has released would u recommend a video editor like myself with storage needs of 10 TB per year to go for something like Synology DS1522+ or this new UNAS to be my FIRST NAS storage unit?

[@dpt17]

Thanks for this video. I have been dockerizing processes on my Linux media server and was considering doing it with Plex. I will save this video for the future help with that, if and when I get to it.

[@TheNodeChannel]

Just saw this video after I finally got Hardware Transcoding working on my Proxmox container. Crazy how powerful Intel Quicksync is.

[@LonSeidman]

It's crazy powerful and even crazier is how long it's been around for.

[@Gnomicidal]

Excellent video. Everything worked perfectly and it was my first time using Docker. Thank you!

[@DAVIDC0015]

Hi Lon - two questions. 1) Others have asked but have not seen a reply (e.g. @DrTorbjorn below) Why did you put your media files inside the container folder? I was thinking of using a shared folder called media at the root of volume 1 (with subfolders for movies,, photos, music, etc.) and point Plex libraries there as I'm less concerned with redployability and more concerned with intuitiveness and ease of use ... but what do I need to do to browse and use those shared folder locations as I cannot currently do so following your instructions as presented? 2) Maybe this is related, but should there be a "plex user" with specific permissions as needed for plex to use for application purposes as well as media library access? Could you clarify what user Plex is running under your scenario. Thank you!

[@jeffreybugarin8766]

is there a way to map media outside docker folder? i cant seem to make mine work - /volume1/video:/video

[@nrnoble]

Love docker and I run Plex in a docker container on a UNRAID server, which is similar to Synology, but more of a DIY raid server because it runs on PC hardware that assemble yourself.

[@warrenmadden2586]

I used this guide and the compose file above to get Plex set up on my 923+ a few months ago, and it worked great. However, Container Manager never told me about any updates to the container, and I started to see messages in Plex about new Plex versions. I checked the container website, and it had been updated ten days ago. After looking over the linuxserver/plex page in the docker registry, I ended up editing my compose file to switch from VERSION=docker to VERSION=latest, and when I rebuilt it picked up the latest container version and now my Plex shows it has the latest version. I'm hoping I did this correctly - any advice? Any ideas why Container Manager wasn't notifying me that updates were available?

[@Mr_Bacciagalupe]

Can you enable the Plex Pass Hardware Transcoding option in Synology DSM 7.2, without using the Docker Container. Like how it worked in previous DSM 6, using no Docker container? Thanks!

[@littlefrank90]

13:33 this part didn't work for me at first, for anyone having this problem (and future me, hey, handsome, welcome back!) here is how I solved it: my container hadn't started correctly, you can check this by going into container manager --> container --> click on plex --> log tab, if it says "stderr permission denied" or something like that you have to go to your plex media folder and give permission to everyone to read/write on it

[@guritche]

Good video. Was wondering why you did not use the official plex container instead of the linuxserver container, especially this being a plex sponsored video?

[@LonSeidman]

I was using the Linuxserver one as it was the only one available when I first started playing with Docker. I think the team helped Plex develop their own. Either is fine and well supported.

[@guritche]

@@LonSeidman Thanks! works great, just finished my installation😀.

[@S_T_Z_B_L]

Great video! I came across this when trying to set up Hardware transcoding on my DS920+. Your guide worked perfectly to get that going. In my research I came across discussions about transcoding using RAM and/or the M.2 caches. I don’t know if that’s applicable for Synology users but it may be something worth looking into to for further optimization.

[@chrisreese2620]

Good evening Lon, loved the video and all of the detail. Do you happen to have a video using portainer? If not would you be willing to do one?

[@randypentecostes5280]

Hi Lon, I’m setting up a ds 223j very soon. I’m confused on which to use as my server. Do i do this or is it better use a nvidia shield? Ps. Currently using my shield already as a server with a usb hdd attached.

[@phunperson64]

I will have to consider this i run plex on my 1618+ but I see I can't put docker on it even thought its intel. Its a pain where i have to manually do updates. Will consider for my next Synology Nas

[@revengec]

can i use a folder that is not in the docker container?

[@geofreypejsa54]

Excellent video again Lon. I have a Synology 1019+ and I set up the container as you suggested and did all the steps and it worked GREAT! Nice job. One question. Plex indicates an update is available for plex. How do i update Plex w/i container manager? Within Synology, I just download it and install manually via the package center. When I did that with the plex update, it came back as an invalid file format... Thanks again. I really enjoyed the video and all of your content

[@LonSeidman]

Check out the procedure I detail at 17:49 - you have to download and rebuild each time.

[@geofreypejsa54]

@@LonSeidman thanks Lon!!!

[@geofreypejsa54]

I had skipped over that section...duh...not a good idea; got it working and thanks for the specific reference. Docker and Synology are cool together

[@MomCallsMeJimmy]

Hey lon great video. I was having issues with hw transcoding with my ds918 +. I ended up putting plex on a windows computer and pointing files to my server. My question is how many transcode can it handle. That's real important to me.

[@tehsheik]

If you have plex pass (HW acceleration), 5 streams at 1080p in H264 with 8GB ram installed and running WD red 3.5" drives

[@andresvaldevit3692]

I’m kind of interested too, I getting a used ds918+ too. How is Plex, and the whole NAS in general, holding up in 2023? Any sluggish or abnormal behavior?

[@tehsheik]

This is for a native install. Not in a docker.

[@MomCallsMeJimmy]

@@tehsheik I also have plex pass and sane hdd's but 5 is not enough. It starts to buffer. I at times have 10 to 20 streams and it's not good.

[@MomCallsMeJimmy]

@@andresvaldevit3692 I love mine but it has limitations if you are sharing with more than 5 streamers apparently

[@revengec]

I keep getting an error about "config". What does that mean?

[@bbgarnettTotallyNotABot]

Keep up the great work

[@jjones2582]

14:52 How did you get the Abyss on Blu-ray?

[@SithLordDarthBane]

Does is use up less resources?

[@emirhano2tr]

Thanks much for this very very useful video

[@Deltax5]

Can you join a plex server you set up. from another location? and join where you are, lets say a cyber cafe or your home? Can multiple people join the same server?

[@LonSeidman]

Yes if you set it up to do that, either through a VPN or by opening a port on your router.

[@Deltax5]

One buddy told me why the internet connection he got just allow it. Doesn't make any sense to him why he needs to pay another fee to get a better service. Already paying the premium. Could just pay for a streaming service probably same amount.

[@LonSeidman]

@@Deltax5 I'm not sure what he's talking about.

[@Urosaurus]

Great, very useful.

[@bokkoman]

9:18 your folder setup is too much. Each mounted volume in docker is another filesystem. In your example it doesn't really matter. But for an easier solution, you could just mount "/volume1/docker/plextemp/media:/media" to have access to all subfolders in /media. Next to that, i recommend not using your docker mount as the place to store your media.

[@troyhickman8577]

Novice here, thank you for the advice on having just one filesystem ("/volume1/docker/plextemp/media:/media"). That will be much easier moving forward adding more media content then editing the yml file with changes. I am speculating that he has his media inside docker for security and ease of deployment onto other systems. I would prefer to have my media content outside of docker as I already have a working file structure for other applications. Thanks again!

[@davidchristensen6908]

What the heck is going on at Plex. The software has lost my credentials 4 times in the last 5 months. Do want to invest in Plex for anything else? Not sure? Is anyone else having Plex issues.

[@jmr]

This is why I won't recommend WD. Where is our container manager?

[@manslayerdbzgt]

Oh awesome Synology added transcoding for plex finally again back with AMD or no cuz there's no point if you cant do transcoding unless you're just going to use it at home and ain't worth it

[@bokkoman]

No, transcoding only works with Intel CPUs with quicksync (iGPU).

[@TheGundamZero]

What if you already have Plex on your NAS but want to move it to docker? I got to the point where you browse to NASName:32400/web but it opened my existing Plex.