Caution

As-of 2021, this product does not have a free support team anymore. If you want this product to be maintained, please support my work.

Note

(This product is available under a free and permissive license, but needs financial support to sustain its continued improvements. In addition to maintenance and stability there are many desirable features yet to be added.)

Tip

THIS REPOSITORY IS AUTO-UPDATED BY GITHUB-RELEASE-NOTIFIER (https://github.com/femtopixel/github-release-notifier)

Raspberry PI - Plex Video converter - Docker Image

This image purpose is to convert unsupported video files by Plex for Raspberry to mp4 which is supported.

Just run the container to convert all videos files to convert recursively on your media volume : Please note that this package is also hosted on Github Container Registry, just add ghcr.io/ before the image name (docker pull ghcr.io/jaymoulin/rpi-plex-video-converter instead of jaymoulin/rpi-plex-video-converter)

Note

0.7.0 update : you can add a compress=28 environment variable to compress all .mp4 files in the media path. The higher the number, the less the compression

Note

0.8.0 update : you can add a fallback=1 environment variable to use libx264 codec instead of libx265.

docker run --rm -t -v /path/to/your/media/folder:/media jaymoulin/rpi-plex-video-converter

This image is multiarch, which means it works either on your PC or Raspberry PI

Appendixes

Install Docker

If you don't have Docker installed yet, you can do it easily in one line using this command

curl -sSL "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jaymoulin/e749a189511cd965f45919f2f99e45f3/raw/0e650b38fde684c4ac534b254099d6d5543375f1/ARM%2520(Raspberry%2520PI)%2520Docker%2520Install" | sudo sh && sudo usermod -aG docker $USER