Videos Freezing Until Reboot on M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pro AND Mac Studio

[limitin]

I recently bought both an M1 Max Mac Studio and M1 Pro MacBook Pro after upgrading from Intel variations of the iMac and MacBook Pro that had 0 major issues.

For the most part, videos play fine most of the time. But after a few hours of video playback, randomly, videos won't play in any browsers (Safari, Firefox, or Chrome) and just show a loader. Even local videos on the system won't play in Quicktime. This has been happening at least once a day until I do a system restart, which fixes the issue for awhile. This appears to be happening on both of my M1-based computers.


On YouTube, it will just forever show a loading spinner. Sometimes it will load a frame or two of video, but that's it. Videos stored locally on my drive have the same issue playing in Quicktime and VLC while the issue is occurring.


Does anyone know what causes this, or how to prevent this from happening? Is this a known issue?

 

[ddevilbiss]

Any resolution to this? I've had my mac since January and hadn't experienced this until last week, not sure what changed but has happened several times now after coming out of sleep.

 

[Ethosik]

What is the operating system on these? I never had experienced this issue before. And I have videos playing 95% of the time.

 

[satcomer]

Any resolution to this? I've had my mac since January and hadn't experienced this until last week, not sure what changed but has happened several times now after coming out of sleep.

That usually happens when you constantly insist of running old Intel only applications from years ago! Something intel old plugin is causing that!