Plexus

A suite of tools to help manage the media behind a Plex server.

Docker

Rather than installing the dependencies and downloading Plexus locally, you can run the Plexus Docker image:

docker run -v $HOME/.config/plexus:/root/.config/plexus -v $HOME/.plexus:/root/.plexus -v /path/to/media:/media wolveix/plexus:latest 

Install

Automatic

You can automatically install Plexus by running the following line via a supported command line interface:

curl https://plexus.wolveix.com/install.sh | sudo bash

If you don't have superuser privileges or are using macOS, use this instead:

curl https://plexus.wolveix.com/install.sh | bash

Manual

Alternatively, you can manually install Plexus to a custom location on your device. You should install sudo if it doesn't already exist on your system. Install any missing dependencies (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get -qq -y update && sudo apt-get -qq -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -qq -y install curl ffmpeg rsync

Install any missing dependencies (CentOS/Rhel):

sudo yum -q -y install epel-release
sudo yum -q -y update && sudo yum -q -y upgrade
sudo yum -q -y localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -q -y install curl ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel rsync

Install any missing dependencies (macOS):

brew update && brew upgrade
brew install curl ffmpeg rsync

Create all of the temporary folders required:

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/plexus $HOME/.plexus/encode/convert $HOME/.plexus/encode/converted $HOME/.plexus/rclone /tmp/plexus

Download the default config file and move it into the correct location:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wolveix/plexus/master/plexus.conf
mv plexus.conf "$HOME"/.config/plexus/

Next, download the executable itself:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wolveix/plexus/master/plexus

Finally, correct the file permissions and move it into your respective operating system's application directory. The following example is for Linux:

chmod u+x plexus && chmod 755 plexus
sudo chown root:root plexus
sudo mv plexus /usr/bin/plexus

That's it!

Plexus natively supports RClone and a custom build of FFmpeg. You can install any dependencies via Plexus' built-in install function.

Configuration

This is the default config file:

audio_codec="aac"
blacklist_file="$HOME/.plexus/blacklist"
convert_dir="$HOME/.plexus/encode/convert"
converted_dir="$HOME/.plexus/encode/converted"
deinterlacing="true"
ffmpeg_binary=""
ffmpeg_threads="2"
ffmpeg_preset="faster"
ffprobe_binary=""
force_overwrite="true"
fusermount_binary=""
hardware_acceleration="false"
hardware_codec="opencl"
list_file="$HOME/.plexus/list.txt"
media_container="mkv"
media_dir="/mnt/plexdrive"
mount_dir=""
rclone_binary=""
rsync_binary=""
video_codec="h264"
video_library="libx264"

Without changing any options, Plexus will create a list of your media files that either don't use the MKV container, x264 video codec, or the aac audio codec. You can then process this list by running the encode command which will move through the list and re-encode each file to fit the above three conditions.

Original files are overwritten by default, you can disable this by setting force_overwrite to false. You can edit the config file directly ($HOME/.config/plexus/plexus.conf) or you can use the built-in config function by running plexus config.

Usage

This varies depending on whether you're planning on encoding local media or media contained on an RClone remote. Begin by specifying your preferred codecs via the config function.

Local Media

Run plexus list -d /path/to/media to start building a recursive list of your media which needs to be re-encoded.

Once the list compilation has completed, you can begin the encoding process using plexus encode -l /path/to/list.

Remote Media

Run plexus list -d /mount/path/path/to/media -m /mount/path to start building a recursive list of your media which needs to be re-encoded.

Once the list compilation has completed, you can begin the encoding process using plexus encode -l /path/to/list -r RCloneRemote:.

Support

If you run into any issues, please submit an issue via this repo. If the issue occurs during the encode command, please run the command again with the --verbose flag to give us a better idea of what's happening.

Credits

• Creator: Robert Thomas
• Help: Greg Probst, Mason Rowe
• License: GNU General Public License v3.0