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bassmann:
I upgraded to a master license a while ago but haven't yet got around to deploying on anything other than windows.

Why? At one point I read the Linux version of MC has limited functionality (Music Only) compared to windows and would like to understand if this is still the case before i spend time on a Linux deployment.

What i'd like to do
- In one scenario I'd consider Linux MC as a VM solution on a server.
- In another as the client for music, video. Maybe both?

Is there somewhere I get more info on how the current version of MC Linux support these deployments? A feature list? Maybe even a comparison vs. Windows.

Awesome Donkey:
Well, both AG for Linux and Mac have both come a long way, supporting more than music like images and videos as well (along with theater view). Though it's worth noting that video support isn't as 'rich' as MC for Windows is due to Windows-only software being used (e.g. madVR, LAV Filters) so if you depend on those, it's likely a non-starter. Television support is also something that MC for Linux and Mac completely lack and likely will always be Windows-only (due to drivers and whatnot being only available on Windows). Other features are missing, like the WDM driver which is Windows-only as well and there's some other smaller stuff.

bassmann:
Thanks Awesome Donkey for the update. I appreciate Windows drivers / features a constraint for other OS's in the media space.
For me this means clients out of the question for me...except an audio only deployment.

What are your thoughts as MC being a media server on a Linux VM?

I got a home server operating as a NAS. E5-2680v2, 64GB RAM etc, 18TB ZFS2 storage running of LSI HBA to Freenas VM, XenServer 7.x

Awesome Donkey:
For audio, that should be fine but in my mind the potential sticking point might be video. What kind of GPU are you using? But then again I've never used a VM to run a MC server on so I wouldn't be able to tell you how well the performance would be (especially video), so hopefully somebody else would have a better idea on that front?

bassmann:
From my experience hardware performance on VM depends of pass through ability which is part of the reason I have a HBA for storage. GPU's can be pass-through as well.
The it would likely come down to Linux driver support for the said GPU and its performance under Linux.

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