stop complaining!!! the Nordic Hawaiian says to have faith!!! don’t worry, he released 68 versions of his wannabe Winamp clone so he can visualize his swedish metal so stop being a troll!!! 38 more versions to go before our faith is answered.
you need to drink more faith, you are running out of it. i have some to spare for cheap. i take apple pay only.
Does Elan even drive a Volvo? 
not sure, can one drive a 5 star safety rated vehicle with Birkenstock sandals and tube socks while rocking to swedish metal?
What I don’t understand: There is an Ubuntu ARM version of PMS available, so where is the problem in building a macOS ARM version?
those are completely different operating systems. one of the reasons why the M1 has been challenging is because it was a new architecture target and the media server has many, many dozens of dependencies which have to built for it. some assume macOS is Intel, for example, some have custom build systems, and such. that having been said, we have been working on it and are very close to being done.
i will be deleting comments in this thread which are abusive, condescending, or just obnoxious. be kind to each other, please.
One thing I’m wondering about is compatibility for the new Sonic Analysis feature. If I’m not mistaken, it’s not compatible with ARM-based CPUs, right? I would hate to lose this amazing feature with the eventual M1 build when I move my server to a new M1 Mac (which I plan to do in the near future).
Anyway, I think that with so many moving parts, taking the time to get everything working is the right move here. Thanks for that.
Thanks for the update. Appreciated.
that having been said, we have been working on it and are very close to being done.
This is really great news! Thank you for sharing that information!
thank you !!!
Thanks for the update. I feel all these discussions could have been avoided with one posting like this months ago. Nobody asked Plex for a roadmap or to make promises. This simple update why it takes so long and that you are getting closer was all anybody ever asked for.
thanks
I would love to know if this could mean we’d get support for things like Metal / Media encode/decode at the hardware level… HW transcode but with apple’s own silicon… A native binary would be nice and all, but taking advantage of the HP of their hardware would be a bigger gain, at least I would think, instead of just throwing everything at the CPU.
Plex already uses Apple’s VideoToolbox for real-time decoding/encoding/transcoding of supported video. This isn’t affected by Rosetta2.
Native M1/ARM64 support will help with the other cases - burning subtitles, Optimize jobs, sonic analysis, media analysis, video preview thumbnails, intro detection. And to some degree, Library/Database management.
Does anybody know if different M1 chips (M1/Pro/Max) have different H.264/H.265 encoding engines? I know the Pro & Max have a “ProRes Accelerator”. Or has anybody seen any VMAF analysis?
Thank you very much for the clarification, Volts. Am I also understanding correctly that the current limitation with the amount of simultaneous transcodes is OS related, and wouldn’t necessarily be different in a native build?
That’s my understanding, yes.
I know some in this thread question if Apple would move away from Intel completely. Today’s Apple Event made this very clear and Apple verified they were. They ended the event by saying that the transformation to M1 away from Intel was now almost complete with one more item to be announced soon at a later event, the Mac Pro.
Apple and Intel are officially divorced now. Apple Silicon only from here on
Been using the 2012 Mac Mini’s as Plex Servers for nearly 6 years with little hardships. I recognize that the Intel chips were going to have to be phased out and after today’s Apple Keynote, I am now willing to have Apple M1 Ultras as the next successor to my home servers. Personally, I’m in no rush for Plex to have it all worked out but Elan has stated that it’s on the horizon. It’s funny that some guys on the Plex forum come in with pitchforks requiring Plex to bend on supporting older Windows PC configurations but yet we have Apple Plex users who are so pushy on getting Plex on M1 to work cohesively. Plex needs to work on multiple OS’s and I’m willing to cut Plex some slack there.
I think people got impatient because Plex had more than two years and had stayed extremely silent. Windows and Linux users have plenty of alternatives. They can upgrade the OS or buy any hardware they want. But Apple users are not in the same boat. If their hardware needs to be replaced, it is now M1 (unless you want to shell out for the outdated Mac Pro or outdated MacMini) so there is probably more anxiety there. Yes, Rosetta is ok but any emulator software is designed to work, never delivers the same level as native support. Elan gave an update and it was promising. I have not seen pitchforks since then and if Plex has some native support betas in the near future, I am sure Apple users with M1’s will be extremely happy
Thank you, @elan!!! I have been running an Intel Xeon 12-core CPU Plex Media Server system with 2x 2TB SSDs for OS and Plex, 96GB RAM, and 80TBs of RAID6 storage for many years without hardware transcoding that handles direct play and up to 8x+ 1080p-source transcodes whether x264 or HEVC without a problem. However, I have avoided going 4K with transcoding for some time since it didn’t make sense to add power-hungry, heat-inducing GPUs and hearing inklings of Apple technology providing solutions in the near future that will someday exceed Intel and nVidia systems…
It looks like that time has come! Apple's NEW M1 Ultra Chip DEEP DIVE - I'm Sorry, Intel.. - YouTube
I look forward to seeing a Plex Media Server native for Apple silicon since the new Apple Studio M1 Ultra (2x M1 Max on-die) has come out that has processing far-exceeding the latest Intel i9 and Xeon with nVidia RTX 3090 with far less power consumption.
Needless-to-say, I see an Apple Studio system in my near future!
hi there,
Any news about the Plex player app for apple silicon?
The actual app is so buggy on m1. it works but with some slow down.
thx 
Just wanted to say thanks to the developers for working on an Apple Silicon native version of Plex Media Server. Quite a few of my 10TB hard drives on my Windows Server 2022 server is in need for a replacement and I’m going to toss the entire server out and replace it with a Mac Studio running Apple M1 Max 10-core CPU + 24-core GPU, 64GB RAM and 2TB internal storage, with a total of 8TB of Samsung T7 external USB3.2 drives.
The performance and efficiency is amazing. It’s finally time for me to move on from having this big tower dedicated server heating up my apartment. It will for sure provide some challenges trying to migrate my current virtual machines running things like UniFi controller, Homebridge, Plex Media Server etc. But who doesn’t love a challenge?
I currently have the Mac mini with Apple M1 and a MacBook Pro 14-inch with Apple M1 Pro and these chips are extremely impressive. The Mac Studio will be replacing both my Mac mini and my current Windows Server.
