Wonder if we will see a native Apple Silicon version before the end of the year?
The answer to that is no. Emphatically.
Why would they ?
It works on Apple Silicon…well.
They have your sub.
They can afford to ignore Silicon owners.
Job done.
We’re definitely interested in getting it running on Apple Silicon, and we’re not planning to ignore that growing group of humans.
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Thanks @elan for chiming in and the Plex product. Lots of rabid fans.
… just remember this quote.
“There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.” — Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar
I understand you can’t share all details and I also get that we can’t expect ship dates (dev ship dates always need at least a +1 month for all companies) but some more details would be nice. I assume you are working on this. Is there going to be a beta that people can sign up for (for example)? that alone would be a nice thing to look forward to.
thanks
claus
@elan - I too am interested in this need if the M1 can be natively supported - this will save me money in energy consumption moving from my R730 series server to the Mac Mini… 
Patiently waiting for a post-Christmas miracle
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knowing him, it will be plex amp related.
first of all, it’s spelled “plexamp”
secondly, have some faith!
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Seems that the biggest benefit for native compilation would be HDR tone mapping. I run about 80-90% CPU load serving a single 4K HDR to 720p SDR using s/w encoding. h/w encoding has a very low load (at least according to the graph) but get stuttering unfortunately. Love my Plex Lifetime and look forward to an M1 native compile or libraries that allow h/w encoding w/o the stuttering. Happy New Years Plex! Thanks!
damn straight.
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and
I’m going to play the lottery today
So much for having faith
14 months Elan. 14 Months.
How’s Sync going ?
No real need to reply to trolls.
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True, because it’ll take you 14 months to do it.
And calling me a troll is your way of deflecting from the real issue.
Let me remind you @elan, ALL Mac users will be Silicon soon.
The ENTIRE ecosystem is migrating.
14 Months and counting.
Does it not occur to everyone that Elan/Plex are taking their time simply because of the borderline abuse they are getting? Heck if I was getting that I would’t bother putting anything out until the last Intel based Mac died.
The fact remains, us M1 users can still use PMS on Intel and Apple plan on offering Rosetta 2 for a few more years yet. PMS runs fine in emulation mode and it runs faster than on Intel. Impressive considering it is running in emulation mode.
Yes the Ecosystem is migrating but this will take years not months. I am still using 2 old Intel Mac minis one from 2012 and 2014 so no…Not all Mac users will be M1 not by a long shot. Plex know Macs tend to last longer.
Just give it time - all this badgering just makes all us M1/Mac users look like d1cks. I would be more understanding if PMS didn’t run at all on M1 but from Elan’s/Plex’s point of view it does.
I for one would rather a stable version that they took their time over, instead of a buggy version they just chucked together to stop ya’ll moaning.
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Lots of things in there I disagree with, some I don’t, but the big issue here is it’s not free.
I know it’s only a few bucks a month, but it still isn’t gratis and whatever anybody thinks, I work to pay for it.
So a few months delay is not an issue, it’s not like they’re re-coding Photoshop from the ground up.
14 months is not good for a small media server app that Apple have gone out of their way to provide translation tools to ease the transition.
They somehow found the time to improve sync…was anybody screaming for that ?
I’ll try and be less “troll-like”, but it’s still very, very disappointing.
Peace.
I don’t think plex employees are that childish. I hope you do not run your business like that.
What bothers me most with plex inc is their lack of communication (skills) with their customers. No roadmap, no estimates only vague statements that could mean anything.
