If your videos and transcoding tasks can be accelerated, they already are.
On macOS Plex uses Apple’s VideoToolbox APIs for transcoding when possible. This doesn’t use Rosetta 2. VideoToolbox is accelerated on M1 and is fast as hell.
Housekeeping and thumbnail generation and can’t-be-accelerated transcoding and analysis tasks don’t use VideoToolbox. I assume those will benefit from a native version when it’s available.
Plex hasn’t released a timeline. They don’t usually. There are a few components baked into Plex that might be contributing to the delay.
Are you having any issues today?
