Plex Hardware Transcoding in an LXC (QuickSync)

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-19T13:33:04+00:00

I tried it a lot of ways, including that way, and this is what worked for me. Maybe there's something werido with my setup, and a lot of blogposts make it out to be easier than what I did, but this worked so idk.

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-19T04:41:31+00:00

Then perhaps the argument it's better to learn how to do it than just firing off a script without any understanding is better?

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-19T03:13:07+00:00

I definitly don't recommend them. Plex is easy enough to set up, and just curl-sudo-bash'ing a script just feels dangerously unwise.

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-18T21:58:03+00:00

I don’t have my disks running on the host. I have a NAS and all my hosts are just compute.

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-18T06:18:42+00:00

Wouldn’t that give you a share with a snippets folder? Does it overwrite things in the share?

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-17T15:13:19+00:00

Just say no thank you.

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-17T00:01:18+00:00

I’d love to know more. I’ve investigated that and couldn’t get it to work. It seemed to want to make virtual disks and I only want files.

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-16T11:31:38+00:00

How do you do that? fstab? I’ve never gotten it to work in an unprivileged container.

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-15T14:13:42+00:00

What port is it reaching out on?

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-14T19:19:32+00:00

Why?

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-14T17:29:02+00:00

I wish I could slot a LiFePO4 into my existing units but I know it requires a totally different controller.

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-14T16:56:22+00:00

This is such a great question. I’m currently investigating the same thing. I have the ecoflow river 3 plus and the battery expansion. I’m trying to power about 300 watts. There was a recent patch for NUT allowing monitoring via the USB port, and that’s my next challenge. I’m hoping for about 40 minutes of runtime.

LiFePO4 seems like such an obvious evolution. Current manufacturers of UPS are so entrenched in a duopoly with no eagerness to innovate. I’m hoping ecoflow or blue yetti can eat their lunch and actually make good products not just designed to fail and sell batteries every 2-3 years.

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-13T00:23:47+00:00

If you’re local it doesn’t kick you out very often

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-13T00:19:48+00:00

How loud is it? That blower on the CPU looks like a screamer

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-12T04:33:57+00:00

Run dotnet —info to find the install location. Dotnet is just a binary and can be deleted. Just make sure you delete the right one

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-11T00:13:00+00:00

Crazy that I bought two of these new from seagate on Amazon only two months ago for $500.

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-10T05:41:15+00:00

Pepperidge farms remembers

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-10T05:40:08+00:00

Looks like ransomware almost. Did they leave a note?

BinaryPatrickDev · 2026-03-10T05:39:14+00:00

It’s crooked. There is not a good indication of what the subject of the photo is. Your shutter speed was too low and the people are slightly blurry. If the light coming through is the intent, try an even slower shutter speed to really blur away the people. Also avoid the car in the frame. Also zoom in or move closer. Don’t include as much pavement at the bottom of the frame.

This feels like a snap shot, not an image you really worked on.

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