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JRiver Media Center 23.0.51 for Debian STRETCH AMD64 Beta
bob:
--- Quote from: franswilco on September 22, 2017, 08:09:43 am ---Thank you.
As a long time Mac and Windows user, I just tried Linux for the first time. There's a lot more tweaking involved to set up the overall system. Something I don't mind. I am using JRiver for quite some time now on Windows. Here are my first impressions with the Linux program. I hope this helps:
- I run a dual screen setup. JRiver opens quite randomly from screen to screen. After manually moving JRiver to the screen I want, any additional JRiver pop-up windows still open on the other (wrong) screen. I solved this using gDevilspie, but it is still annoying, because every time a JRiver pop-up open for the first time (the DSP pop up for instance), I have to manually add that pop up screen to gDevilpie, in order for it to open on the right screen the next time I try it.
- Going to Import - > Import -> Media Import, I select the Browser button. The "Select Path" system pop up window opens behind the JRiver pop up window.
- The mouse cursor changes from system default to a different arrow from time to time. Is there a way to disable this? I don't see the logic or benefit for JRiver to overwrite my system's default mouse pointer.
- Fonts do not look well anti-aliased. Anti-aliasing as a whole on Debian 9 / KDE doesn't look as good as it does on Windows or Mac, so I'm not sure if JRiver can be improved. I'm a web developer, so I do have a thing for well anti-aliased fonts, I guess. Window's pretty terrible compared to Mac, but Debian 9 / KDE is another thing entirely, so it seems.
- My biggest issue is that JRiver is noticeably slower to respond (screen rendering, clicking on songs to play, etc) on Linux Debian 9 (KDE) than on Windows. It's also more unstable. I do have to add I have installed the latest 64 bit version that I did not try on Windows yet.
I am looking to replace my HTPC set-up from Windows to Linux entirely, but only if the OS and my two main programs (JRiver / Plex (now Kodi on Linux)) behave as well as, or better than, they do on Windows. So far I am not yet convinced.
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Are you running a nvidia video card with the Nouveau X server?
The issues you are describing (popup windows, etc) don't occur with intel video, nvidia cards with nvidia drivers, etc.
Nouveau has known issues, especially with MC.
franswilco:
--- Quote from: bob on September 22, 2017, 09:09:54 am ---Are you running a nvidia video card with the Nouveau X server?
The issues you are describing (popup windows, etc) don't occur with intel video, nvidia cards with nvidia drivers, etc.
Nouveau has known issues, especially with MC.
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Hi Bob,
I have a fairly modest system built around bit-perfect audio and 1080P playback. I am running an AMD A6-A3500 APU, 8GB RAM and a Radeon HD6450 card (because the motherboard itself doesn't support driving both HDMI and the DVI connector. Bummer! I have about 5 hard drives (WD Green's, SATA internal). The system disk is a Samsung EVO SSD.
I have the following packages installed:
- xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg
- amd-microcode
- xserver-xorg-video-ati-dbg
Any help is appreciated because I am completely new to Linux!
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