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Running Plex in an Unprivileged LXC with Intel QuickSync Passthrough

First setup an unprivileged Ubuntu container with Plex Media Server installed. Inside the container take note of the id of the plex group.

# Your Plex group's ID may be different
$ getent group plex | cut -d : -f3
998

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Bind Mount CIFS Volume to LXC Container

This example mounts a read-only Media share to the Promox hosts and bind mounts the volume to an LXC container running a Plex Media Server.

1. Open a shell on the Proxmox node
2. In the /root create a file called cifs_credentials.
3. Inside the file place the username and password for the share in the following format:

username=USERNAME

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# Most common ad servers via /r/privacy post:
# https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3tz3ph/blocking_most_advertising_servers_via_factory
# Chances are your PiHole is already blocking most of these, but it's nice to be sure.
adsense.com
adblade.com
207.net
247realmedia.com
2mdn.net
2o7.net
33across.com

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#! /usr/bin/env sh
# Painlessly setup a new peer on your wireguard server
#
# Peer config will be rendered as a QR code that can be
# scanned by a mobile device. The peer public key and 
# IP will be appended to the server's wireguard interface
# config.
#
# Requires qrencode to be installed on the system.
set -e

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#! /usr/bin/env bash
# This converts each flac file in a given folder into a raw PCM bit stream.
# The raw bit stream can be used to perform a metadata-agnostic comparison
# with other audio streams.
for file in *.flac; do
  # -ar = sampling rate
  # -ac = number of audio channels
  # -f = sample format (s16le = 16bit, little-endian)
  ffmpeg -i "$file" -loglevel error -ar 44100 -ac 2 -f s16le "$file.pcm"
  md5sum "$file.pcm"

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#! /usr/bin/env bash
# Recursively searches for flac files in the supplied
# directory and checks them for errors.

shopt -s globstar

error_log="$(pwd)/errors.log"

green='\033[0;32m'
red='\033[0;31m'