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plex

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Media server for organizing and streaming personal media

Run locally

Terminal
$ npx launchfile up plex

Requires Docker Desktop. No source code needed — pulls pre-built images and starts plex with all dependencies.

Image: plexinc/pms-docker:latest
Launchfile View on GitHub
# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://launchfile.dev/schema/v1
version: launch/v1
name: plex
description: "Media server for organizing and streaming personal media"

# GAP: Plex uses a non-standard port (32400) and may need GPU passthrough
# for transcoding. The claim token (PLEX_CLAIM) is a one-time-use token
# from plex.tv that expires after 4 minutes — the generator model
# cannot express this.

image: plexinc/pms-docker:latest
platform: linux/amd64
provides:
  - protocol: http
    port: 32400
    exposed: true
env:
  PLEX_CLAIM:
    description: "One-time claim token from https://plex.tv/claim (expires in 4 min)"
    sensitive: true
  TZ:
    default: "UTC"
    description: "Timezone for the Plex server"
storage:
  config:
    path: /config
    persistent: true
  transcode:
    path: /transcode
    persistent: false
  data:
    path: /data
    persistent: true
restart: always

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