I’m a Senior Experience Designer, that’s not my wheelhouse. If they are working on it, they can at least confirm that. Otherwise they’re sitting on their thumbs. It ain’t that hard.
The second statement indicates a deeper issue. I just had to roll back the latest update today. It had my server crashing repeatedly. Thanks for letting us know you’re working on it. My question, (to myself) should I continue to pay for this?
Actually, Apple did a terrible job with the launch of the M1 and providing developers early information about creating universal apps. Again, if Emby can provide a beta app, Plex can too. This is what we pay for, to have a stable product that keeps up with technology and platform changes.
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You mean, like, the developer kit they sent out? The Mac mini with the A12z chip in it? For developers to test because the M1 release was imminent? That kind of early information and preparation?
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5 months was very little time should have been 12+ months.
Anyone heard if an M! version of the Plex server is in the works yet?
Agree 100%
Plex acknowledged it is in the works but no ETA. Emby launched their M1 Beta App in January but since I don’t use them anymore I have no idea how testing goes. I just saw the link in their forum
Thanks for the reply.
Any updates here?
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9 months.
Let’s just hear that again.
9 Months.
No Apple Silicon version, not even a Beta.
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Is there a better, more positive way to help get this prioritized? Possibly by creating awareness of how many in the community want an M1 native build?
Based on some of the testing done earlier in this thread I doubt it will be a problem, but has anyone done any stress testing on the M1 of 1080p or 4k material that needs to transcode PGS, or other image-based subtitles, to a device that can’t handle natively? I used to host my server on an old iMac and it could handle the PGS transcoding fine on SD or 1080p media, but I’m doing a lot of upgrading to 4K so I don’t have direct experience to say 'yes, this can transcode 4k with PGS just fine." Maybe it can do several streams at once? That’d be cool 
Hello Folks Ive read this entire thread from top to bottom but after more recent threads I’m still not sure if I should take the M1 plunge as some of the early testers seem to drop off … I have a 2010 Mac Pro which Id love to replace simply cause of the huge footprint and although its running only as a file server and PMS with 16GB of RAM its dog sh#@ slow. There are some options on ebay and Apple these days to pick up a decent M1 but I just wanted to check the community to inquire whats the latest experience and support for M1 and PMS?
What is the final verdict on 8GB vs 16GB…is it worth the $200 to get more?
What kind of issues might I expect to run into migrating?
Does Plex officially support M1 or do I need work arounds till it does?
Any up to date info is much appreciated!
Lastly to the conversations on cleaning up the Server directories, is it OK to purge the /updates folder and the /crash reports directories?
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Hi
I ran my PMS on M1 Mac Mini for around 6 months now. No issues at all. I have around 12 active users per night ranging from direct play to mostly being transcoded. M1 one is perfect and cannot fault it.
Migration was easy too as long as you use Time Machine. Plex doesn’t fully support M1 yet (some people are going crazy over it) but I am sure it is coming soon. The Plex app will run in Rosetta 2 mode (which the Mac sorts out for you when you first load the Plex app).
Plex isn’t really RAM hungry so 8GB I find is more than enough, if its only purpose is being a PMS.
I can send over some screenshots if you want? But I say go for it.
Cheers
Luke
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Thanks for the quick response. You mentioned using Time Machine, I plan on setting up my server a bit differently this time, especially since I have to buy a ton of adapters to dumb down to some of my older SANS that are Firewire only. I should be able to just follow the Plex guidelines for migration and copy the /Plex Media Server directory correct? Will this overwrite or screw up this Rosetta 2 setting you speak of? I only have about 5 Plex users that are never watching at the same time so my load is quite low.
Hey there, I can’t answer to migrating, because I chose to just rebuild it and drag my media over. I wanted to do some different things organizationally, plus just giving the server a new name felt right because it was just a new machine. Haha.
That being said, as another user above said, mine has been rock solid. I did choose to go with 16GB of memory, simply because I wanted to future proof it. But I haven’t had any issues at all. The Rosetta 2 translation layer doesn’t seem to slow down Plex at all, and it seems to run as a native app. That translation application is seriously impressive. I’d say go for it! I’d recommend doing the 16GB if you can afford it, because it can’t be upgraded later.
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Fwiw, I upgraded from a 2014 Mac mini to a 16GB M1 without time machine about 3 months ago. I followed the migration guide, I had no issues.
My content is hosted on a NAS, I installed automounter to make sure the shares were restored after the machine comes out of sleep. On the old Mac, I was using autofs but the newer Mac OS versions kept trashing my config so I bit the bullet and paid for automounter and it works flawlessly for me.
This is all working under Rosetta 2 and I have no complaints about performance. Looking forward to seeing what native performance will be.
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Thanks for the follow up bryce.wilson93. I’m reading up now on Rosetta 2 and remembered seeing it mentioned in the Keynote so now I’m familiar with what this will entail to setup. I also agree with the 16GB upgrade for future sake as I plan on running this server for at least the same 12 years I’ve had the other. (Lets just take a moment to note how amazing that sounds to say as Mac users…LOL)
Ive always just added my PLEX shares to the User Login Items and its been flawless.
But Ive also had auto login enabled since this server is in a rack and has no KVM access.
