c/selfhosted · by Blxter@lemmy.zip · 2y

ghcr.io/linuxserver/plex vs lscr.io/linuxserver/plex

Hey, this might be a dumb question but I would like to know the differences of these two images for plex or other docker images.
I am new to using docker and would like to know the differences if there is one in using one over the other. I can not seem to find anything about this.
Thanks

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Moonrise2473@feddit.it · 16 pts · 2y

For the first the bandwidth is paid by Microsoft via GitHub, the second from linuxserver.io via donations.

That's why I prefer the first one

MajinBlayze@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Those are two different repositories, one hosted by GitHub, the other by linuxserver.io. both are published by linuxserver, so there shouldn't be a practical difference between them.

Blxter@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y

Thanks :)

sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Unsolicited, but an urge for you to consider/reconsider Jellyfin over Plex

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 2y

Honestly anybody using Plex should be ready to jump to Jellyfin as Plex is going down hill and Jellyfin is getting better. Just remember to donate.

Blxter@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y

Oh yes I have jellyfin ready to go whenever I actually use it for books as of right now. Just moving over from a windows laptop to Linux and using docker.

rentar42@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y

They are in fact the same image, as you can verify by comparing their digest:

$ docker pull ghcr.io/linuxserver/plex
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from linuxserver/plex
Digest: sha256:476c057d677ff239d6b0b5c8e7efb2d572a705f69f9860bbe4221d5bbfdf2144
Status: Image is up to date for ghcr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
ghcr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
$ docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/plex
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from linuxserver/plex
Digest: sha256:476c057d677ff239d6b0b5c8e7efb2d572a705f69f9860bbe4221d5bbfdf2144
Status: Image is up to date for lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
$

See how both images have the digest sha256:476c057d677ff239d6b0b5c8e7efb2d572a705f69f9860bbe4221d5bbfdf2144. Since the digest uniquely identifies the exact content/image, that guarantees that those images are in fact byte-for-byte identical.

MaggiWuerze@feddit.de · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Just so you know, there is also an official image: https://github.com/plexinc/pms-docker

Seabass78@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Hardware transcoding broke for me using the official image, to be fair it was docker on a VM which I think Plex say doesn't work. The Linuxserver images work flawlessly though, so might be worth considering depending on your use case.

heck_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

I switched from the official image to linuxserver.io for the better nvidia GPU setup. Had issues getting the official image to utilise the GPU properly which was solved immediately when I switched.