DJI Mavic Pro 4k Video can not play properly on macOS Sierra MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011)

Hello guys,

My laptop is quite old, however I was surprised to see QuickTime can not play propperly an videos from DJI Mavic Pro Drone under macOS Sierra 10.12.5.

The video is encoded in H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)(h264) Resolution: 3840x2178, FPS: 29.97

I do have bootcamp with Windows 7 and Media Player Classic Home Cinema which tunrned out to plays videos propperly hah.

So right now my Mac behaves better under Windows!

What a charm haha.

Have anyone know a good player that can render videos without making proxies/trascendent videos?

I believe it has to utilize the 4 cores of CPU

CPU is I7-2820QM https://ark.intel.com/products/5 ... ache-up-to-3_40-GHz

It is from 2011 also know as Sandy Bridge, by the same time Intel released Quick Sync Video(which decodes h264 on hardware level),

but still macOS Sierra don't seem to care.

Full specs are:

MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011)

2.3 GHz Intel Core i7, up to 3.4GHz

16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

512GB OCZ-VERTEX4 SSD

Video Radeon 6750M

Anyone have experience with this topic?

MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), macOS Sierra (10.12.5), OCZ SSD Vertex4, 16GB 1600MHz RAM

Posted on Jun 4, 2017 9:19 AM

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Jun 5, 2017 2:19 AM in response to vtashev

The only way I found so far is to boost VLC Player to utilize multiple Threads in CPU!

In Tools / Preferences / Video Codecs" / FFMPEG / Threads, value of 0 which means "Auto", but it's not working for me. I had to incease to 16

Remark that the FFMPEG library is not used for all video formats.

Thanks to video - How to configure VLC to play 4K content properly - Super User

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