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…

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…

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 navigati…

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…

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.

[image] Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux Announcements Version 1.71.1 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux. NEW: (macOS) Apple silicon support Allow half star ratings FIXED: Update custom playlist images in downloads (Mac/Linux) Poster upload didn’t…

Super :smiley: 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 :slight_smile:

Update on Apple Silicon support?

Plex Players Desktop Players

FoxBJK June 20, 2023, 8:28pm 7

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Update on Apple Silicon support?

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