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Any interest in a dockerised MC?
jimwc:
Yes please!
My music library resides on a mid-range Synology NAS, which as a 2.4GHz quad core and 6GB of RAM. Most of this horsepower goes generally unused unless I am transcoding video streams on the fly. It seems silly that I now need to set up another computer as a MC library and UPnP/DLNA server (on a NUC, RPi, whatever), when I have a perfectly capable linux machine (the Synology) already setup with my whole music library loaded and plenty of extra CPU. If JRemote could simply talk to my NAS with no other computer required, and stream to any endpoint/renderer on the network, that would be fantastic! If ignorance is bliss, simplicity is surely the next best thing.
NAS units like Synology are great for the non-experts among us who have never installed linux, setup VMs, built a computer, etc. I would imagine a Dockerized version of MC to be easily installed, set-and-forget, and just my speed (along with other non-IT experts probably running MC on Win or Mac). Even though I already have a MC Master License, I would definitely pay an additional fee if it were dead simple to install and run directly on my NAS. It's easily worth another $50 (or more) to save hours of my time learning linux from scratch and just use something within the user-friendly Synology interface to make MC happen on the NAS directly.
mattkhan:
I haven't had time to actually try this out but leaving a few links here for future reference....
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28985714/run-apps-using-audio-in-a-docker-container
summarises how to access ALSA or pulse in the container. This is for ubuntu so other distros may differ of course. Note this does rely on the host having alsa (or pulse) installed. I don't know whether this is true for unraid though.
http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/
this gives an approach to running a gui app in a container. The options seem to be vnc, ssh with x forwarding & sharing the X socket. More generally this is covered by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16296753/can-you-run-gui-apps-in-a-docker-container though it sounds like it is a bit of a moving target. There are also a variety of examples that put this together in https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desktop/
Given the intent is to run this on a server, with access from disparate OS's, I suspect that vnc is the best choice in this situation.
The other thing to bear in mind will be exposing the relevant port(s) for remote control
fitbrit:
I just finally got onto unraid 6.
I love it. A huge +1 for a dockerised version of MC from me.
It would save me having to run a PC 24/7 AND the unraid server 24/7 too.
And I know many others in the same boat.
This would be a win for JRiver, I think. I'd upgrade to a Master licence in a flash. I'd probably save the upgrade price in electricity within the first year.
The only thing I do not understand is how the licence install and purchase would work for the dockerised version.
JustinChase:
Has anyone had any luck or made any progress on this? I'm still hoping for the ability to run MC on my unRAID 6 server without having to create a Linux Virtual Machine to install MC.
**I added a request on the unRAID forums for help building this docker, so maybe they can build it for us.
mattkhan:
I still intend to get to this but haven't had time yet. The fact that all the interest is from unraid users means that my effort is blocked on me upgrading my unraid server. I will get there at some point though (unless someone else gets there first!)
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