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BullishDad:
Thanks for the quick reply, Jim. Upgrade purchase completed. :)
Calvin Bouchard:
Will there be a version of MC27 native for Apple Silicon when the first hardware is released later this year and if so, would the price for a Mac license cover native versions for both Intel and Apple Silicon? Thanks!
Awesome Donkey:
I don't know what JRiver's plans are (or if they're even considering on support ARM on macOS) but if they are eventually going to do an ARM build of MC for Mac, I wouldn't expect it for a good while, perhaps not even during the MC27 release cycle... maybe not MC28 either. Depending on the amount of work needed (which is likely a ton) I honestly wouldn't be surprised if JRiver decided not to develop an ARM version of MC for Mac because of the large development costs likely needed for seemingly little gains. Once Intel Mac support is completely dropped by Apple in about 7 years, it might mean the end of the road for them supporting the Mac platform, but know knows I could be wrong on my guess. There's also other potential factors like the various issues they've had with Xcode for the last year and Apple's tightening grip of the entire ecosystem with them now moving into controlling all of the hardware side of things.
Going from x86_64 (Intel) to ARM (Apple's Silicon) isn't an easy or quick process. I'm not sure if any of the ARM code for the MC for Linux version could be leveraged or not, but I'm going to guess no. One of the biggest hurdles is likely they'd need to re-write the OpenGL code MC for Mac uses for Metal 2, which is likely a large undertaking. With Apple also intending to drop AMD GPUs and replace them with Apple GPUs, re-writing a large portion of the application is likely unavoidable.
I know for me, once Intel Macs (and Hackintoshes) go away and all supported Macs are ARM-based, that it's the end of the road for me with using Macs and macOS.
bderek:
Today I purchased a Mediacenter 27 Master Licence and updated the licence on MC26 on my Windows 10 machine.
I also have a Mediacenter 26 install on a Ubuntu 20.04 box installed using the repository /stable.../jessie main. At this time it shows v 26.0.73 is installed. After pasting in the key I get a "your licence is for a different product" message. Also tried the install by way of command line, and got the same error message.
The date stamp between my Windows machine and Linux are different by 5 hours (windows thinks its 5 hours ahead). I changed the time on my Linux machine to that of Windows and tried the install, and again got that same error message.
The Linux install of MC26 still says I have some days left in my trial period, so I know the licence install has not taken hold.
What do I need to do to get my Master Licence working on a Linux MC26? I suspect that I have to go to 26.0.98 but where is that? In the most current repository? How do I change to a different repository and update from that? Thanks.
Derek
Awesome Donkey:
You need to install a newer version of MC26 for it to use a MC27 license. Easiest way to do it is to look at the Ubuntu tutorial and switch to the latest channel from the stable channel and check for updates (and install the updated MC26 build).
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,123664.0.html
EDIT: Just make sure Media Center is fully closed, then use this command in a Terminal...
--- Code: ---sudo wget http://dist.jriver.com/latest/mediacenter/mediacenter26.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mediacenter26.list && sudo apt-get update
--- End code ---
From there check for updates in Ubuntu like you normally do, there should be a Media Center 26 update.
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