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M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro Owners Complain of Crashes Playing HDR YouTube Videos
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What's the correct number of beta testers? And have there been OS releases, by any company, that have zero bugs?
I think there were strange sounds from the speakers of MacBook Pro 2019 and Apple did something to kind of suppress that sound. It worked for some users but not others. Hope they could fix it completely rather than a partial fix.
This is not true. New Mac is capable of rebooting so quickly so you won’t even notice it.
I have a 64GB M1 Max 8TB and it absolutely crashed and rebooted my computer as soon as I scrolled through the comments while playing 4K HDR video in YouTube. The screen froze for about 5 seconds before it went black and rebooted.
UPDATE: When I play this Costa Rica video, my computer does NOT crash.
But if I play this video, it does crash:
I changed my tab setting in Safari to "compact" and the computer does not crash when running the same test again.
UPDATE: When I play this Costa Rica video, my computer does NOT crash.
But if I play this video, it does crash:
I changed my tab setting in Safari to "compact" and the computer does not crash when running the same test again.
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Here's my favourite test videos. I had crashes, though not anymore after switching to Compact tabs as suggested by @TooManyNotes
Yeah I'm not sure I tried multiple HDR videos - scrolled through comments no issues. Went to full screen and exited and no issues there.
14” M1 Pro 16gb no issues here with all those videos. Compact tabs.
I will test in separate in a moment soon.
I will test in separate in a moment soon.
IDK but they have a limited number of supported device configurations, yet they have OS memory leaks and bricking problems during update so the OS hasn't been tested enough. Seems like the marketing team forced the tech team to release the OS.
For OS or general software releases, there are deferred bugs that are not critical.
here is what i do to make it crash and restart every time. open a new tab either in safari or edge, go to youtube and select a 4k hdr vid. start playing vid and make it full screen. after a min or so esc out and stop the vid. click on another tab and my screen goes black and laptop restarts. 14 incher base.
In programming, sometimes the simplist problems are the hardest to fix.
M1 Pro 10c/16c 16GB/1TB 16" reporting here: using both videos played backed over and and over and using safari SEPARATED TABS I have ZERO crashing. Nothing! So this may be affecting some people's software and/or HARDWARE.
I've tried other 8K titles with zero crashes as well while scrolling down comments back and forth at various speeds. default view window, theatre view, and full screen no crashing
Could this be a Regional setting? AV1 VP9 settings? Try to test the HDR Dolby link below. If those videos don't crash your mac... it's YouTube. YouTube has been changing format per account. I recently received a new YouTube design/format. Not everyone gets it.
I haven't crashed once.
developer.dolby.com
I haven't crashed once.
Dolby Vision streams | Dolby Developer
Jaguar?
I thought Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.6, Tiger and Snow Leopard, were pretty rock solid.
But then things went downhill. But Jaguar? That seems a little extreme to me.