Apple Silicon support for Plex player (At least)

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Hi there,
I saw a lot of topic without any answer to this question.

Is there any reason for not releasing a new version of Plex player for mac with the M1 support? Qt is now available since months.

The app is actually so broken, its laggy even on M1 ultra.

Guys, please do it.

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Yeah, but he says that the server is hard to make it work on M1 dues to dependencies.
On the player side, there is way less dependencies (in my opinion… ^^’).

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Ok then, I can only image a player released first the forum would be full of all the outcries.

Also wouldn’t a player have dependences to a Server, so why would you duplicate?

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In most case, the server is on x86 architecture (that’s my case). There is way more user of Plex player than Plex server on mac so releasing it first make sense.

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Good luck with that theory

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  • One here - would like to see at least the Player-App as AppleSilicon (resp. Universal). The Current Player behaves since the last update no longrer stable and crashes extremly frequently out of nothing… thx.
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I cannot even launch it anymore after an update I think. :frowning:

Player is no go too:
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Hi - as the Player App (not Plex for Mac) is from 2020 (veery ancient and old) i did not install it - and I use the Plex App instead to connect to my server. I now have completely uninstalled it (including App…support/Plex in Library) and for now, it is stable (since 30 min no crash). But will prefer Universal Binary non the less… BR.

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+1 for me. Waiting for a native Apple Silicon version asap.

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I also want to see M1 support for the Plex Player on Mac.

What I do not understand is why they don’t take their iOS/iPadOS Player and port it over. In fact I was able to get this working to some degree so it really shouldn’t be that difficult.

I understand the Plex Media Server is a different animal, but the player is essentially already finished, they just need to apply a Desktop UI to the iOS version and they are done.

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There is now a successor of Plex Media Player called Plex HTPC. You can download it here => Plex HTPC for Mac, Windows, and Linux - #11 by Moussa maybe try that. (:

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Thanks @Mitzsch - but I prefer “the one” source/official support of Silicon Binary from Plex whan and if available - shan’t take long now, universal binaries are only 1 and a half years old…

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same here

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Now that a server version with native Apple Silicon support has been released (1.28.0.5999), maybe the chances of a client increases?

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Especially since there is an iPad version, if it is a native Swift application, there should be not much work to make it fully supported on Apple Silicon processors. Fingers crossed :crossed_fingers:

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The video player used by Plex for Windows currently does not run natively on the M1. We are hoping this will change in the future at which time we will very likely offer a native M1 client app.

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Sheesh can Plex at least update the iPad app to support Mac?

Buttons and menus and controls are finicky.

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Thanks for the reply ! Which videoplayer is used and does this mean if the videoplayer never will ported to M1 there will be no player native for apple silicone? What happens when Apple ditches the intel support as annonced?
Thanks for answering these questions,
Movie.Fan.Plex

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So we have to wait till the windows player is supported (on macOS) before we get an M1 player app… mind-blowing how you guys landed on that decision

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