[implemented] Plex Apple M1 native app (universal binaries) not Emulated

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I would like to know if native Server and Client for Apple M1 are in the work, or at least in the “Soon” roadmap :slight_smile:

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Hi, do you install Roseta2? I have a Mac Mini M1 and it works, not very smooth by moment but it’s okay when you take a play

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I’d really like to see a universal / native build of the Plex client so I can sync my content to watch offline.

I tried the current client app and its really laggy and almost unusable.

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What roadmap ?
Have Plex shared a roadmap ?

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Anything on M1 version of Plex server yet?

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Any Progress on a Native M1 Mac Player

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Any word yet if there has been progress on PMS with Apple Silicon? Would love to run this on my M1 Mac mini, rosetta isn’t cutting it.

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I would also love to see PMS as a native app…Any update Plex?

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I bring your attention to the reply from the Plex Co founder in the following discussion.

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Not sure if folks are aware(and this only answers half of the OP’s original question), but you can run the iPad client version on an M1 Mac. You can even download media for offline use… not the official desktop client, but good enough to run on a MBP in a pinch…

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Ahh it work thank you !

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I’m seeing quite a substantial power disparity between 3 versions of plex all playing the same video at the same quality. I presume this is due to emulation layers. Any chance of Apple optimized version anytime soon?

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any day now … Plex Media Server running on Apple Silicon M1 chipset i.e. new Mac mini, MacBook, etc - #354 by elan

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Preview: “Universal” PMS build for macOS (a.k.a. M1 support!)

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There’s now an PMS universal one, but where’s universal client?

Plex Media Player doesn’t have the sync functionality so that’s a nope for that reason.

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These threads are so confusing with people talking about Server and client like they’re the same thing. It’d be really good to refocus them by either starting new ones or renaming existing ones so that it’s clear which one is talking about server and which one is talking about desktop.

I run linux for my server and have Mac M1 for my desktop player. The player is frustratingly laggy. Would be great to have that fixed up some day. Now that server is released perhaps the experience is there to roll out a desktop app sometime soon.

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I’m pretty sure I’m now seeing issues on the universal build with Plex and Split Tunneling with PIA not playing well together…

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I have not seen what your saying, can you explain a bit more of your issue. Please note: Monterey does not support Split Tunneling

PIA: 3.3.1 MacOS
MacOS: Big Sur 11.6.7
Plex Server: 1.28.0.5999

Everything Plex and Browser used to administer set as a Exception with PIA app

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I 100% could have sworn that PIA updated to support Monterey although I can’t recall where I read that in the release notes. Ultimately, split tunneling on Monterey has been working for me for a few months now up until the universal binary build for plex. Note that it is properly tunneling selected applications across VPN and non-VPN IP addresses, although there seems to be some under the hood issues here.

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