A friend of mine stumbled across this project and asked if I could make it compatible for his Windows Plex server which has a single hard drive attached with all their media so I added some simple code to translate the Windows Path to linux, you can accompany this containerized tool with WinNFSd on a Windows host utilizing nfs-version 3 while mounting on your container orchastration platform which in turn shares your media with your clipplex from a Windows desktop OS over NFS! This also likely can be paired with Docker for Windows to act as the Plex Server/storage/clipplex all-in-one but I have not attempted it.
Have you ever, while watching something on your plex server, wanted to easily extract a clip out of a good movie or tv show you're watching to share it with your friend, family or the world? While this was always possible, the process can be complex for something "so simple".
In this fork, I simply added a translator for the Windows paths so they are compatible with Linux, using a combination of WinNFSd and a simple batch script on startup called nfs_share.bat for example, containing the following:
.\WinNFSd.exe "L:/" /l
This will share the external drive L: as an NFS path [WIN_PLEX_IP]:/l/
Then I simply add the following config to the docker script:
-v /WIN_PLEX_IP/:/l \
And now we have the path mounted perfctly for clipplex to translate, enjoy clipping on your Windows servers!
| Variables | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| PUID | 1000 | Optional |
| GUID | 1000 | Optional |
| TZ | America/Toronto | Optional |
| PLEX_URL | link to plex | Mandatory |
| PLEX_TOKEN | token for plex | Mandatory |
| STREAMABLE_LOGIN | ... | Optional |
| STREAMABLE_PASSWORD | ... | Optional |
Finding Plex token: https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/
Volumes: You will need to mount two locations:
- one that point to your media, in the exact same fashion your plex access these media (as the path are absolutes)
- one where the new clips will be created.
media need to be mounted into the container path: /media when using Linux
media needs to be mounted exactly how the Windows path is, i.e. 'L:\TV Shows' = '/l/TV\ Shows'
clips need to be mounted into the container path: /app/app/static/media (yes, I'll get that better eventually).
Port: Port 5000 is used to serve the frontend. (yes I will serve flask with gunicorn at some point)
Network: Need to be on the same network as your plex instance.
docker run -d --name clipplex -p 9945:5000 -v /media:/media -v /volumes/clipplex:/app/app/static/media --restart always -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=America/Toronto -e PLEX_URL=YOURPLEXURL -e PLEX_TOKEN=YOURPLEXTOKEN ssgoku129/clipplex:latest
version: "3.5"
networks:
docker_internal_network:
name: plex_stack
clipplex:
image: jonnike/clipplex:latest
container_name: clipplex-alpha
networks:
- docker_internal_network
environment:
- PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=America/New_York
- PLEX_URL=YOUR_PLEX_URL (example: http://plex:32400)
- PLEX_TOKEN=YOUR_PLEX_TOKEN
- STREAMABLE_LOGIN=YOUR_STREAMABLE_LOGIN
- STREAMABLE_PASSWORD=YOUR_STREAMABLE_PASSWORD
volumes:
- /media:/media
- /volumes/clipplex:/app/app/static/media
ports:
- 9945:5000
ssgoku129 - expanded for use with Windows
Jo Nike - Original contributor
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0.0.9 Made the path conversion deal with special characters a little better
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0.0.8 Added Path conversions for Windows Servers
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0.0.3
Initial Release
Distributed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file information.