2023-07-11, 11:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-07-11, 11:48 PM by dekomoon. Edited 3 times in total.)
I am unable to watch videos transcoded from AV1 to AVC and HEVC on my M1 Macbook Air running MacOS Ventura 13.4.
Because I can't figure out how to get Safari or Chrome to play HEVC content I resorted to AVC on my Mac's Firefox browser, but the colors are really washed out... This happened in other browsers too for AVC.
I also tried Jellyfin Media Player on my mac too. AV1 is unplayable (most of the frames were being dropped), but this was expected. I then tried to transcode to HEVC and AVC, but both stuttered and lagged too, but better than AV1.
I know that my Mac is more capable of playing AV1 and HEVC videos than that though. Because the same 4 minute AV1 video that Jellyfin Media Server was having trouble was downloaded in less than 5 second and played very well with minor stutters (but still annoying). One more thing is that my Mac has an HEVC decoder so it should not even stutter at all...
I also tried playing the video in my Jellyfin host's operating system (Ubuntu). I first tried in Firefox on my Ubuntu machine and AVC color was not washed out (but bitrate sucked so it looked bad either way). Then I tried running Jellyfin Media Player and it ran AV1 and HEVC flawlessly using my RTX 3060's decoder.
What is the problem on my Mac?
(Note: just checked again for the AV1 video I downloaded on Jellyfin Media Server... the colors are washed too... the original video in my server is not washed... I am so confused on why this is happening???)
Because I can't figure out how to get Safari or Chrome to play HEVC content I resorted to AVC on my Mac's Firefox browser, but the colors are really washed out... This happened in other browsers too for AVC.
I also tried Jellyfin Media Player on my mac too. AV1 is unplayable (most of the frames were being dropped), but this was expected. I then tried to transcode to HEVC and AVC, but both stuttered and lagged too, but better than AV1.
I know that my Mac is more capable of playing AV1 and HEVC videos than that though. Because the same 4 minute AV1 video that Jellyfin Media Server was having trouble was downloaded in less than 5 second and played very well with minor stutters (but still annoying). One more thing is that my Mac has an HEVC decoder so it should not even stutter at all...
I also tried playing the video in my Jellyfin host's operating system (Ubuntu). I first tried in Firefox on my Ubuntu machine and AVC color was not washed out (but bitrate sucked so it looked bad either way). Then I tried running Jellyfin Media Player and it ran AV1 and HEVC flawlessly using my RTX 3060's decoder.
What is the problem on my Mac?
(Note: just checked again for the AV1 video I downloaded on Jellyfin Media Server... the colors are washed too... the original video in my server is not washed... I am so confused on why this is happening???)