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iPanini:
Thanks again for replying!
I went throught the whole uninstall / install process for a third time.
Checked that the .jriver folder was gone
Also did rm -rf /home/erwin/output (not sure what this is for, but I did not do this the first uninstall / reinstall session)

Then tried again from the terminal > mediacenter33

This time:
- got a pop-up and was able to paste in my license key
- the .jriver folder is created

But then no gui popping up?
Am I not missing something? I understand your suggestion to move to Ubuntu, and maybe in the end that's what I'll end up doing, but this should not be necessary.

JimH:
Here's  MC34.

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,141164.0.html

iPanini:
Ok, just a little update:
- yesterday did an uninstall following the procedure ./installJRMC
- next did an install using the ./installJRMC method to install mediacenter34
- the problem remained the same, pop-up allowing to enter license key then nothing

As I was fairly sure it had to do with either window manager or another GPU problem (that was not showing), I switched to KDE. Again starting mediacenter34 from terminal failed. But at least there it threw errors.

Did more searching related to the errors. Found apparent issues on the internet pointing to missing drivers for Intel i915 (I'm using a NUC7i3DNB and use CPU-X app to view all system properties)
This did not resolve my problem either.

Then I noticed this post from Bob.


--- Code: ---You should be able to get it to work by starting from the command line

[color=blue]mediacenter34 /BuiltInBrowser[/color]
--- End code ---

Using this method I was able to start mediacenter.
I'm also convinced that this same method would have started medicenter33.

I still have a couple of questions though:
1. Are there more "methods" to start mediacenter## /XYZ? this is what I have been asking for from the beginning.
2. Is this documented on the wiki?

Questions to using mediacenter34:
- I have mediacenter 33 running on a 2013 Mac Pro
- have totally disabled the firewall on the mac for the time being
- trying to follow the procedure outlined in the > Options > Media Network > Access Key
After trying multiple times, this simply will not work.

=> How do I enable several instances of Mediacenter running on separate machines to work together as server / client.

A special thanks for helping out to Awesome Donkey, bob and JimH!

For what it's worth:
I've just tested the Bob method: mediacenter33 /BuiltInBrowser
- This works
- window behaves a lot better than mediacenter34
- connecting to the mac library did not work either => I'd like to get that solved?

Awesome Donkey:
I completely forgot about the /BuiltInBrowser thing, though it seems a bit odd to me it's affecting MC33 like that unless you used the Bookworm test builds, so kinda strange but maybe not. :-\ Anyways, if you close MC after running it with that switch and starting it again without typing /BuiltInBrowser does it begin to work correctly then?

iPanini:

--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on April 29, 2025, 07:17:03 am --- if you close MC after running it with that switch and starting it again without typing /BuiltInBrowser does it begin to work correctly then?

--- End quote ---

I just tested:
- closed mediacenter33 using menu > File > Exit
- then in KDE > System Menu > Multimedia > Media Center 33
And yes, that works.

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