Video skips to the end on all players on MacBook Pro

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Video skips to the end on all players on MacBook Pro

I have a 15 inch Macbook Pro and suddenly am having video playback issues. The data is all there, the video says it's (for example) 14 minutes long, but I press play, and it skips straight to the end. Happens in every possible viewer - Finder, Quicktime, imported into iMovie -- and even happens after converting the file to a different format (from mov to mp4). The file works fine on other computers. Running OS 10.14.6 (18G103)

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Dec 8, 2020 10:09 AM

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gzetlan Author

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Dec 13, 2020 3:32 PM in response to dawngreg08

So, it's only this one file. When I restarted my machine, it started working again, so I guess it's fixed? But it was very weird, and I saw this issue crop up in multiple other places on the community boards.

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dawngreg08

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Dec 13, 2020 12:23 PM in response to gzetlan

Hello gzetlan,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities!

We understand that when you play a video it always skips to the end of the movie. We're happy to help!

The article below provides a lot of great information and some general troubleshooting tips that should help you resolve the video issue.

If an audio or video file doesn't play on Mac

Additionally, are you experiencing this issue with other video files or only this specific file?

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

Take care!

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Jan 26, 2021 4:19 PM in response to gzetlan

I have the same issue.

Quicktime skips to the end, VLC plays but the audio is all messed up and firefox plays audio but video is stuck on one frame.

Restarting fixes it temporarily then it breaks again.

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Video skips to the end on all players on MacBook Pro

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