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    Youtube videos look Pixelated on Mac Mini M1

    I recently noticed that YouTube videos look pixelated on MacBook M1 on Chrome, FireFox, & Brave. I have disabled Hardware-Acceleration on these browsers but still have the same issue. Safari & Edge renders the video perfectly and there is no pixelation on any of the videos I tested...
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    Does the free Davinci Resolve use Apple M1 video h/a codecs?

    Davinci Resolve was updated to run natively on Apple Silicon. Does anyone know if the free version use the Apple M1 video encoders/decoders on the Pro/Mac SOCs? I am finding mixed messages online, and BlackMagic's own official PDF of comparisons between the free and paid-for Studio doesn't...
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    ATI Radeon performance comparisons across different OS kexts?

    I’ve found the Tip:- ATI Rage 128 in Leopard thread to be one of the more invaluable finds when optimizing the very best from older PPC equipment bundled with that video card. It’s why I have, for instance, the Jaguar kexts active for the ATI Rage 128 card in my iBook G3 466 running Tiger. This...
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    Video Acceleration with Mojave

    Hi all, It seems I'm not able to play video using Hardware Acceleration (GPU) with VLC and mpv. I know VLC is not using hardware acceleration because when I play the video 'vtdecoderxpcservice' is not active in the Activity Monitor. MPV has error: [vd] Requesting pixfmt 'videotoolbox_vld' from...