Can we please have an update on Apple Silicon player support?
After the somewhat disastrous callout from the Qt Employee after the Plex Employee went out on them publicly in the last thread, it’s basically been radio silence.
I know that we don’t represent a big percentage of your users but the M1 line-up has been around for 2 and a half years.
Every single version of Qt 6 has a disastrous problem of one sort or another.
Firstly, thank you, I appreciate the ridiculously quick response.
Wasn’t this the bug? It seems closed with 6.2 (30th Sept 2021) as a fix version we’re at 6.5 now.
I’ve been looking through their dashboard and I can’t find anywhere any tickets concerning Plex/MacOS. Regardless of status. Does this mean they are not working on it at all?
Since Plex is closed source, the userbase cannot try to contribute ourselves to fix the error so Qt partnership needs to be poked. Would you know which class is crashing? (QGraphicsView, QSharedMemory, etc.)
The resource hogging is pretty ridiculous without native support as reported previously by tivolimeister and I’m sure no one here (and especially me - screw that UI/UX) wants to have to go back to Emby.
There are several issues of which you linked to (a resolved) one. I’ve mentioned in other threads the complete failure in transparency present in later Qt versions (still present in 6.5). This translates to not being able to see the video at all.
Additionally there are several issues just navigating around in the UI. Issues where parts of the UI flash to white (and sometimes stay that way), seemingly displaying animation frames out of order, parts of the UI rendered in the wrong place, and other artifacting. If my suppositions on the cause of these is correct, it is an architectural decision on part of Qt 6 and isn’t going to be resolved on their end soon.
We have a couple more things to try.
FYI, I have posted some test build using Qt 6 for MacOS for Intel CPUs here: Desktop Player Qt 6 Test Builds These builds are intended to find any regressions that may have arisen in updating to Qt 6 so they can be addressed for the forthcoming Apple Silicon builds. So those interested should test these builds to see if they they contain any new issues that we haven’t caught internally.
agreed that did not read well. (amazing she called QT and got a response here…). I hope there is a time in the not so distant future where plex natively supports silicon chips. It would be an incredible server. I’m sure no small task.
finally all my apps are native
Super 
Finally Thanks !
OMG, this can’t be, YAY!!. My life is complete. All my apps are native
Thank you to the Plex team for getting this out the door, can confirm that this resolves high CPU issues with QtWebEngineProcess (down from 50-60% to 10-20% CPU constant usage whilst idle) and brings all my Macs to running only native apps 
Thanks to the team, it seems very smooth now, now all I need for my OCD is a rounded square icon to match all the other native apps 
Let me help you with your OCD. Download an icon that fits you (like this one : Plex, macOS, BigSur Icon in MacOs Big Sur). Then in Finder, go to Applications, select Plex, CMD+i, and drag the downloaded icon over the original on the left corner. Remove Plex from your dock and add it again. Voila.
It’ll be 120$, check your PM for transfer details 
I’m confused, didn’t Plex support M1 a year ago?
Or is this different?
Edit: Ahhh, this is for Plex player, not Plex Media Server (PMS) my mistake sorry!
Somehow I hadn’t notice this, and now I can’t stop looking at it.
Thanks to @Lemimouth1 for the fix, I’m going to try to resist doing it mind you.
Thanks to the plex team for porting it to Apple silicon macs.
I think a lot of us are waiting for this update.
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