Plex Player for new Surface Pro X

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I have the new Surface Pro X which is ARM based and will only run 32bit apps. is PLex going to release a 32bit version of the player ? since the windows 10 app is no more ? the web player is horrible

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Same issue…frustrated there’s no way to access plex through an app on my Surface Po X

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I just got my Surface pro x and found out the windows store app is no longer available and the desktop app doesn’t work :frowning: the web works to play but there is no way to sync your files to have offline for trips. Is there anyway around this?

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For now, you can download Kodi from MS Store, and install the Plex add-on through Kodi. This gives you an option to access PMS through Kodi on your Surface Pro X.

Just tried it on my Surface Pro X, and it works great! Trying to see if there is a Plex Sync option on Kodi that can then be used to sync Plex media files on Kodi.

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Same issue here. Just got the Pro X as a replacement to my Samsung tablet, watching movies on planes is a big functionally I use… and now I can’t.
Can a 32bit version on the desktop app be released please, pretty please :grin:

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I have the native arm (32 bit I think) Plex app on my Lenovo C630 and HP Envy x2 and seems to run fine, which is expected of a native compiled executable running under the native instruction set. This was a UWP app as I recall.

The “new” Plex app is Electron based (99% sure of this), and Electron only recently added Windows 10 ARM native support. That being said it is basically a web browser meaning almost everything will be run through the javascript compiler which is what browsers mostly seem to do these days.

Perhaps in the coming weeks/months Plex will upgrade the Electron version their app is built over?

BTW it is really really easy to build native ARM64 exe’s on VS2017/2019 build tools in addition to x86 & x64 binaries. Pretty shameful developers cannot be bothered to create another build target in their projects.

Slowly though many dependencies are adding Win32 ARM64 build support to their libs.

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