Apple has announced that, beginning with macOS 28 (to be released Autumn 2027), Rosetta 2 will be deprecated such that it only supports some older Intel games.
My understanding is that Rosetta 2 is essential for running the MKVToolnix GUI on Apple Silicon macs.
I’m not a programmer and have no sense of how easy/possible it will be to use MKVToolnix following this change taking place. Could anyone please provide an informed view?
With a lead-in time this large, will a version for Apple Silicon macs be made available in time? I use the software very often, so it’d be a real problem if it’s no longer usable following the retirement of Rosetta 2.
I had a conversation with another user in Building MKVToolNix with Gui on a mac where they succeeded in building their own version on an Apple silicon mac. Personally I do not own an Apple silicon mac and I have no intentions of buying one. Therefore I will likely stop providing Apple binaries at some point.
No one else has stepped up to build Apple silicon binaries for me on a regular basis; even the homebrew folks only re-package the DMG I still provide.
I just checked if I’m still correct of full of shit wrt. Homebrew — turns out it’s the latter, somewhat They’re building from source now, but only the CLI tools, not the GUI. I vaguely remember they couldn’t get the Qt build to work for some reason.
Try to dequarantine with sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/MKVToolNix-92.0.app normally this helps against the problem with app damaged.
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