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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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Hughmac said:
It took me a while to find a video on YouTube that won't play, but this one will not...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dP4WAXqBtc


Cheers :)

Hugh
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I restored AppleGVA from 10.14.3 and played this video in Safari without any problems. 1080p The specifications of this video are suitable for decoding. Nothing special.
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9400m has a Pure Video VP3 Decoder with full hardware decoding capability for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VC-1/WMV9 and h264
The problem with video playback may be related to sound problems. But as I said, on my MacBook6.1 I do not see any problems with playback in Safari. I also downloaded this file and played it locally - and while playing the video locally, I watched the friezes of the picture during the preview. You can also check that this video is playing locally. As well as locally, but in a player with hardware acceleration turned off in the settings, for example, in VLC.
Replacing AppleGVA from High Sierra in Mojave only affects hardware decoding, because in High Sierra it works natively on the macbook6,1. It makes playing a movie like it is in the High Sierra. And after the patch again, I was able to play this video locally without friezes.
it is therefore difficult to say whether this patch will affect your problem whose nature is not clear.
 
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I decided to go back to Sierra on my Imac 2009. The last Mojave update has made the machine unusable. Only thing I miss is dark mode. iMac is so much happier now on Sierra though. Mojave will have to wait until I upgrade.
 
Hughmac said:
Thanks. It will not play (amongst other videos) using GeForce 9400M or 9600M on my Macs.
Some videos work, some don't.
Have you tried the @gosvamih patch?

Cheers :)

Hugh
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It plays just fine for me too, up to 720p. However 1080p causes some significant lag on MB 6,1 – looking at htop, the processor seems to be the bottleneck, with the Intel Core2Duo 2,26 Ghz running at 100% while the GPU memory and processor sit at around 40%.
 
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gosvamih said:
I restored AppleGVA from 10.14.3 and played this video in Safari without any problems. 1080p The specifications of this video are suitable for decoding. Nothing special.
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9400m has a Pure Video VP3 Decoder with full hardware decoding capability for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VC-1/WMV9 and h264
The problem with video playback may be related to sound problems. But as I said, on my MacBook6.1 I do not see any problems with playback in Safari. I also downloaded this file and played it locally - and while playing the video locally, I watched the friezes of the picture during the preview. You can also check that this video is playing locally. As well as locally, but in a player with hardware acceleration turned off in the settings, for example, in VLC.
Replacing AppleGVA from High Sierra in Mojave only affects hardware decoding, because in High Sierra it works natively on the macbook6,1. It makes playing a movie like it is in the High Sierra. And after the patch again, I was able to play this video locally without friezes.
it is therefore difficult to say whether this patch will affect your problem whose nature is not clear.
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Ah, the problem is Firefox !
That video plays fine through Safari. Thanks for your input :)

[doublepost=1553158307][/doublepost]And now I have another problem. I think the SSD has died in my MacBookPro 6,1...

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It's greyed out and won't mount for first aid using the patcher USB stick, and shows up as empty.
My backup drive works perfectly from USB, so I think I need to swap them out.

Cheers :)

Hugh
 
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Hughmac said:
It took me a while to find a video on YouTube that won't play, but this one will not...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dP4WAXqBtc


Cheers :)

Hugh
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By the way, useful video.
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Hughmac said:
Ah, the problem is Firefox !
That video plays fine through Safari. Thanks for your input :)

[doublepost=1553158307][/doublepost]And now I have another problem. I think the SSD has died in my MacBookPro 6,1...

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It's greyed out and won't mount for first aid using the patcher USB stick, and shows up as empty.
My backup drive works perfectly from USB, so I think I need to swap them out.

Cheers :)

Hugh
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SSDs are much more faster as faster they last less longer than older slow spinning disks.

Anyway when you are in that Shell, try typing "exit" it could then find the next EFI bootable device.
However if you tried First Aid on that SSD it's a clear symptom it is leaving.
 
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jackluke said:
By the way, useful video.
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SSDs are much more faster as faster they last less longer than older slow spinning disks.

Anyway when you are in that Shell, try typing "exit" it could then find the next EFI bootable device.
However if you tried First Aid on that SSD it's a clear symptom it is leaving.
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Thanks. I already tried 'exit' and it just boots back to the original error.
First time I've had an SSD fail, but my backup disk is a 7400 rpm spinner. I reckon that will keep me going for a while. I'm waiting on another SSD to arrive.

Cheers :)

Hugh
 
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icevolt said:
It plays just fine for me too, up to 720p. However 1080p causes some significant lag on MB 6,1 – looking at htop, the processor seems to be the bottleneck, with the Intel Core2Duo 2,26 Ghz running at 100% while the GPU memory and processor sit at around 40%.
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This is interesting. This video flies in 1080p in FireFox (or Safari) on my 2.0Ghz MacBook5,1.
That moment when you realize that 2.00Ghz is faster than 2.26Ghz!
 
avz said:
This is interesting. This video flies in 1080p in FireFox (or Safari) on my 2.0Ghz MacBook5,1.
That moment when you realize that 2.00Ghz is faster than 2.26Ghz!
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Well I'm using Google Chrome, so that might be a significant factor to consider. However Netflix wouldn't play with Safari yesterday, so I had to make the switch unfortunately - kept on redirecting me to this site without even attempting playback. Probably because Safari didn't send the right headers?
 
SSD up and running again - reformatted via USB and currently restoring my backup.
It appears that when I ran the battery down to recalibrate, the SSD was wiped ;)

Cheers :)

Hugh
 
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Larsvonhier said:
To make the Siri Patch easier for 10.14.4 beta6 (and hopefully the final release) I´ve prepared a patcher with all files necessary and installer script. Download archive and run script from terminal.

Download link: here.
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The script looks good. I can't actually test the patch but the script itself should work.
 
Larsvonhier said:
To make the Siri Patch easier for 10.14.4 beta6 (and hopefully the final release) I´ve prepared a patcher with all files necessary and installer script. Download archive and run script from terminal.

Download link: here.
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I noticed you added also all the others "Siri sub-frameworks", I agree with this move, since other dependencies could occur when using a previous core framework.
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avz said:
This is interesting. This video flies in 1080p in FireFox (or Safari) on my 2.0Ghz MacBook5,1.
That moment when you realize that 2.00Ghz is faster than 2.26Ghz!
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When you select the 1080p you should try to set in full-screen, then (at least in my case) the video will result choppy, using instead 1080p in "reduced window mode" will playback smoothly.
 
MacBook6.1 plays video in Safari up to 1080p 50fps. 60fps is already too much. Locally can play videos and FullHD 60fps, even FullHD HEVС 24fps. This is a workable machine. Depends on the video player. (I use IINA and VLC for MKV and QuickTime for MP4.) In the Chrome browser, it is possible to install the x264ify extension and enable into it "block 60 fps video", then all the pages will be 30 fps. Or always set the default to 720p - then the browsers will always have video smoothly. Especially for the resolution of the Macbook display 1080p is not necessary.

In the meantime, I updated 10.14.3 to 10.14.4 Beta 6, and had to face additional problems. But now, mainly thanks to the people from this forum, these problems have been resolved and I can use 10.14.4 just as well as before it was at 10.14.3

Since there is a system of snapshots at APPS, now you can make a snapshot, update the OS, and if you don’t like something, go to Recover and restore your system as it was before the upgrade in ten seconds. I have already used it many times, and everything works fine. Thanks to snapshots, I was able to test updates over and over until I could do everything. By the way, I have a snapshot from High Sierra, who made the system during the upgrade to Mojave. So in ten seconds I can roll back to HS. And all my settings and files will be like then, before updating. It is very cool.

Making snapshots is very simple. In the terminal enter the command

Code: 
tmutil localsnapshot

it usually takes seconds. the system before updating can do snapshot without warning about it. And if you break something in the system during the upgrade, you can easily return to the system before the upgrade. If you know about snapshots, of course. Listing of snapshots in the terminal can be obtained with the command

Code: 
tmutil listlocalsnapshots /

To restore the system to the state when the snapshot is done, you need to enter Recovery or boot from the installation flash drive, select a recovery from the Time Machine, choose a source partition with your operating system. The list will contain all your snapshots, choose which one you need and after a short time get your system back. I have 40GB of data on the SSD recovered in ten seconds. Then reboot and everything is as if you are back from the future (and lost all this time)

Sorry for my English

best regards
 
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jackluke said:
I noticed you added also all the others "Siri sub-frameworks", I agree with this move, since other dependencies could occur when using a previous core framework.
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When you select the 1080p you should try to set in full-screen, then (at least in my case) the video will result choppy, using instead 1080p in "reduced window mode" will playback smoothly.
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I actually always use full-screen(I am using an external 21.5" 1080p LG monitor).
 
icevolt said:
Well I'm using Google Chrome, so that might be a significant factor to consider. However Netflix wouldn't play with Safari yesterday, so I had to make the switch unfortunately - kept on redirecting me to this site without even attempting playback. Probably because Safari didn't send the right headers?
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Netflix html5 support is connected to the cpu architecture as well.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
  • Supported on all 2012 or later models and select 2011 models
I have a cMP 2,1 running El Capitan and Netflix works in safari only with silver light. Opera and Firefox play html5 Netflix flawlessly and with the netflix1080p add on even in 1080p.
HBO (html5) though runs perfectly fine in safari on that very machine.
 
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how is Mojave working on MacBook Pro mid 2010? is it good enough to upgrade or better stay on high Sierra?
 
Larsvonhier said:
To make the Siri Patch easier for 10.14.4 beta6 (and hopefully the final release) I´ve prepared a patcher with all files necessary and installer script. Download archive and run script from terminal.

Download link: here.
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Sorry if I missed the discussion on this specific subject matter. What issue and affected macs does this affect and solve? Thanks.
 
Loyd-01a said:
This is not normal and very dangerous (ransomware, malware ???...).
It has to be quickly investigated and answered by @0403979. Meanwhile, it's important to put a warning in the download link in the first page and/or remove the link to the patch @0403979 @dosdude1.

The remain question: Why TWO patches in the same thread ??? It's
counterproductive !!
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No one seems to be interested in the very valid issue you raised - why TWO patches in the same thread? Not only is it counterproductive, it is confusing. I would have thought that @0403979 would have opened a separate thread and named it an Alternate macOS patcher or whatever, and referenced the thread started by @dosdude1. Then one has a choice of one or the other, and their development(s) can follow different paths. This way isn't helpful at all.
 
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olad said:
No one seems to be interested in the very valid issue you raised - why TWO patches in the same thread? Not only is it counterproductive, it is confusing. I would have thought that @0403979 would have opened a separate thread and named it an Alternate macOS patcher or whatever, and referenced the thread started by @dosdude1. Then one has a choice of one or the other, and their development(s) can follow different paths. This way isn't helpful at all.
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This thread is about running macOS Mojave on unsupported Macs. We both made tools for that. Both tools are listed because both tools accomplish the goal of the thread. If you want to give me criticism then at least make it constructive and valid.
 
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olad said:
No one seems to be interested in the very valid issue you raised - why TWO patches in the same thread? Not only is it counterproductive, it is confusing. I would have thought that @0403979 would have opened a separate thread and named it an Alternate macOS patcher or whatever, and referenced the thread started by @dosdude1. Then one has a choice of one or the other, and their development(s) can follow different paths. This way isn't helpful at all.
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I agree. As I opined on a previous post, @dosdude1's patch works perfectly for this subject matter.
 
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gosvamih said:
Siri window appears and disappears immediately. so it was with me at 10.14.4 beta 6
patch fixes it
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Thanks for the reply. Just checked my unsupported MacBookAir4,2 that has beta 6 installed, and I don't seem to have the problem.
 
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