Plex Media Player on Mac 10.15 Catalina Beta

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Hi everyone,

someone test the macOS Plex app with macOS Catalina 10.15 beta ?

right now, for me, when I use the Mac app, with Catalina 10.15 beta :

  • if I log with my main account after entering my password, I got a black screen in the app, nothing else
  • if I tried with a regular user account, it works, I can log, but if I start a movie / series, I can’t have access to the setting (language, subtitle)

Other experience the same issues ?

Thank you

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same issue for me :frowning:

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No problem with streaming and playing, but the setting page doesn’t work with a black screen, and the poster page of edit infomation page also doesn’t work with a black screen.

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macOS Catalina Public Beta 2 (19A501i) seems to have fixed this for me.

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Plex player on Beta 2 doesn’t work for me. Any thoughts?

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Try opening the .app by right clicking it in finder and pressing “open” to see if you can bypass that - I had to do that for a couple apps like WhatsApp.

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Hi All, I’ve tried to install Plex on my MacBook and it’s blocked. The OS won’t allow it to install. I checked security and there is nothing there to allow it to open.

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MacOS Catalina Beta 6 - Plex no longer plays any audio, but video streaming is fine. If I use Plex from my iPad mini, (still on iOS 12) audio still works. Anyone else have a similar experience?

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Just a note that we’re aware of problems on Catalina.

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Is there any timeframe on when the issues will be resolved? The media player is unusable for me on Catalina.

I know it’s a beta OS, but it’s final release is likely to be very soon…

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We’re testing Catalina internally and hoping support is available before Catalina launches in October.

Our 1.3 build is now notarized for Catalina support. Although, Catalina is still unsupported. Beta 7 specifically worsened behavior. Beta 7 leads to an entire rendering failure, it’s described in https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-77958 if you’re curious.

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Matt. Thank you. The Plex app generates a black screen on current Catalina beta 10.15. Hence unusable. As a short term workaround if you use the safari or chrome browser it works fine.

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Will you guys be implementing another framework in the meantime as Qt 5.12 will more than likely not support Apple’s Metal API until Qt 6 is released late 2020.

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Plex cllent is now working for me in the latest cut of Catalina. No longer hung at startup. It was not working for me before.

macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta (19A573a)

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Doesn’t work for me either :sob:

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@cannondale1 what version of the Plex app do you have installed?

What’s the Mac model and currently installed version of Catalina?

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iMac with the newest Catalina 10.15 and Plex is 1.18.0 I think worked fine before the update

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What’s the version of the Media Player, not the server, thanks!

Also, the exact version of Catalina, please, e.g. “macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta (19A573a)”

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I am not running beta it’s the catalina that came out yesterday 10.15

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And what version of the media player app?