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video small freezes on Catalina

I experience frequent small freezes on video playbacks on every video-player and streaming. I'm on Mac Book Pro 15 inch 2016 and Catalina 10.15

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 27, 2019 1:18 PM

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Posted on Oct 27, 2019 1:51 PM

To trouble shoot further you can:


Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and Test. Reboot and test again.

This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.


Test issue in another user (or guest user) account  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 



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Oct 27, 2019 1:51 PM in response to elia151

To trouble shoot further you can:


Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and Test. Reboot and test again.

This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.


Test issue in another user (or guest user) account  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 



video small freezes on Catalina

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