Evening from the UK. I’m here as, I too was interested when Plex will launch a native PMS app as of today.
Decided to bite the bullet after reading your comments and purchase the Mac Mini M1 which arrived today. This was to replace my 2012 iMac which died on Sunday. The iMac only served as a Plex server (waste I know) but it developed a short and now blows the electric when powering on…anyway I digress.
Used the Migration Assistant to transfer the Plex user over to the new Mini running Big Sir and beast within M1. Went perfectly fine and upon running the Plex Media Server App, you are prompted to installed Rosetta 2 - takes seconds to install and then you can run the PMS app again.
Went a lot smoother than I thought it would - Migration Assistant took care of everything pretty much. Very pleased indeed.
Fired up some devices on 4G and hit play within the Plex app - CPU hit around 40% but does start to settle (I know this is totally depended on the type of media and device etc) but first impressions are good.
So for anyone not too sure like I was at first, I say for it and once PMS runs native on M1, then I’m sure the performance will only get better.
As for the silly comments - not helpful at all. Give Plex some time to develop and test - brand new chip and people are wanting it yesterday. Be worth the wait I am sure. (Thanks Plex Devs for the hard work)
Don’t care about making friends here. I got answers and some hope by making fun of @elan pet project, the only thing he answers to and the only place that he and other “employees” actually listen to and participate in.
Now only if he and others in this organization actually cared about bigger problems (like the Apple TV audio sync issue), the community would care about his Swedish death metal looking visually nice in plex amp.
I like Swedish death metal, I just don’t care how it looks in plex amp.
I rather you care how you pissed off everyone with an Apple TV. Silly us that we would like to watch tv with the audio in sync.
I’m sure this would be my last “allowed” post in this thread, even though he keeps replying and egging me on off-topically (I just invented a new word).
Hi @elan ignoring any negative stuff that gets posted here, I am always happy to see you in a tread.
I know it’s very early days for M1 testing, I would love to see you thoughts on how it perform. Any downside of hardware encoding? Anything you are looking for in the M1X/M2 or whatever the next macs get…
I am having constant issues with transcoding errors on my new Mac Mini M1. Haven’t been able to watch about 50% of what I’m trying to play. I could be wrong but I notice they might all be MP4/H264 with AVI container. I’d wait on that M1 purchase until there’s a native version.
Mine has been running fine - all with different codecs etc. Not seen any issues. PMS runs on Rosetta 2 so there should be no difference at all (confirmed as I’ve ran it for 2 weeks and all is fine so far) Native app will of course be better and offer better performance. Any holding off shouldn’t in my opinion.
Have any of you have problems with your M1 losing mounted drives for Plex? I have my M1 connected to a TB to 10gbe running to a Qnap 1677X and every 2-3 days a mounted folder gets unmounted. To fix it all I have to do is open the folder again but it’s pretty annoying. Anyone else have this issue???
To be clear I have tried mounting in every way, SMB/APS, etc.
Hey. I always use AutoMounter (search on Mac App Store) think it’s about £8 but does the job. It ensures the drives are always connected and will reconnect them should the Mac restart (even after updates etc). I’d highly recommend using this to mount your drives (the mount path will change and you’ll need to add the new path to your libraries). Hope this helps.
Good call! Thank you. I’m going to try a scheduled restart every night at 2am and see if that fixes it, if not it sounds like I’ll buy that immediately!
Hi. Noticed some issues over the weekend, issues include the server crashing and the app closing with no warning or error. Other issue was and transcodes would stop every few mins etc (regardless of Codec). I keep a change log for my Plex Server (sad I know) and the last thing I did was re-set up TeamViewer. I closed it down completely and the server hasn’t crashed once. So I’d suggest removing about Remote software if you have any installed.
I don’t have any remote software running. I access my Plex server drives over my network directly over the network (as a share), not through any remote software. I connected my old 2012 Mac Mini and the problem went away,. Put the new M1 Mac back and the problem started again. When I access and watch movies over the Plex Web the error I get is that the Transcoder crashed. Clearly it’s the server. BTW my player app is on a Roku
Hi - what I meant by remote software is software on the actual server to allow access if you was out the house etc.
Sounds very odd though, my setup sounds pretty similar to you and mine runs fine. I’m running the latest PMS version along with the latest macOS version. The M1 Mac mini solely runs Plex with a few terminal windows and nothing else.
Might be worth getting in touch with Plex Support and giving them a log dump.
