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joshjohnson

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Mar 16, 2004
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Does anyone know if the 2009 Mac mini can play back 1080p60 YouTube videos? I seem to have extremely mixed results and mostly it seems to alternate between pausing, skipping ahead, playing fine, and then skipping or pausing again with extremely variable cpu usage. I have 4gb of ram in that mini and plan to upgrade to 8gb soon. 1080p30 and below play fine. The videos in question are mostly on youtube
 
You might be able to get 1080p/60 to play better in Safari, or a standalone player like IINA that supports pasting in YouTube URLs.

Sadly, the older Core 2 Duos have no on-die video decoder, which makes a big difference on newer hardware. My Late 2006 iMac has trouble with 1080p/60 YouTube playback as well, and 1080p/30 is usually manageable but pushes the continuous CPU usage close to max.
 
You might be able to get 1080p/60 to play better in Safari, or a standalone player like IINA that supports pasting in YouTube URLs.

Sadly, the older Core 2 Duos have no on-die video decoder, which makes a big difference on newer hardware. My Late 2006 iMac has trouble with 1080p/60 YouTube playback as well, and 1080p/30 is usually manageable but pushes the continuous CPU usage close to max.
The Nvidia 9400m has a video hardware decoder in it that handles the blue ray formats fine, those being 480i/p, 720p60, and 1080i30, 1080p24, and 1080p30. What I was wondering is if this video chip was basically too old to support 60fps at 1080p decode in hardware, if anyone else had experience. I’m running 10.11.6
 
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