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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 24 for Mac => Topic started by: unfrostedpoptart on December 29, 2018, 06:15:42 pm

Title: Required Mac specs to run MC for multi-channel audio and some video?
Post by: unfrostedpoptart on December 29, 2018, 06:15:42 pm

Hi all.

I'm looking at picking up a Mac Mini again as a semi-HTPC to host MC and some other home-automation stuff.  It would have to do the following:

• Play stereo and multi-channel audio via HDMI into my Marantz receiver and 7.1 speakers. Source files mostly flac with some DSF
• Serve / stream / resample audio to JRemote on iPhones and MC on other Macs and PCs
• Play movies via HDMI into Marantz receiver and Sony 4K TV

What's the minimum processor/RAM to do this well?  The media files are on a Drobo 5N NAS on my LAN.  Does MC need or can use multiple cores and/or GPUs?  The new Mac Mini starts with these specs:

3.6GHz quad-core 8th-generation Intel Core i3 processor
8GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory
Intel UHD Graphics 630
128GB PCIe-based SSD

Thanks!

 David