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Blur Background on Mac OS
I am using a Macbook Pro to work remotely. The blur background feature is helpful, but it appears to be absent in Teams for Mac. I noticed the blur feature support page says it's not available on L...
Both of my macs reported in "machdep.cpu.features" only AVX1.0. I executed this command
sysctl - a | grep avx
On one mac (blur disabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 0On another mac (blur enabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 1
While I would have preferred to not have to run a terminal command to figure this out, I believe I know why this isn't working.
My Macbook Pro does not support AVX 2.0.
sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features
machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 PCLMULQDQ DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 SSE4.2 x2APIC POPCNT AES PCID XSAVE OSXSAVE TSCTMR AVX1.0 RDRAND F16C
Let me know if you think this is not the case.
Both of my macs reported in "machdep.cpu.features" only AVX1.0. I executed this command
sysctl - a | grep avx
On one mac (blur disabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 0
On another mac (blur enabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 1
Grandswiss
I have same issue on my Mac(iMac 2020(27inch).
My Mac support AVX/AVX2.
------------------------------------------% sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.feature
machdep.cpu.feature_bits: 9221960262849657855
machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 PCLMULQDQ DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX SMX EST TM2 SSSE3 FMA CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 SSE4.2 x2APIC MOVBE POPCNT AES PCID XSAVE OSXSAVE SEGLIM64 TSCTMR AVX1.0 RDRAND F16C
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% sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.leaf7_features
machdep.cpu.leaf7_features: RDWRFSGS TSC_THREAD_OFFSET SGX BMI1 AVX2 SMEP BMI2 ERMS INVPCID FPU_CSDS MPX RDSEED ADX SMAP CLFSOPT IPT SGXLC MDCLEAR IBRS STIBP L1DF ACAPMSR SSBD
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But, I can't select background.
My issue capture is here.
Please let me know any idea.To test it on my Teams version (1.3.00.23764), I did the following:
- In the bar on the left hand side, click on "Calendar"
- In the top row, click on "Meet now" (just to the left of "+New meeting")
- Now activate the camera; you should see yourself.
- On my screen, between the camera on/off button and the mute on/off button there is the "background effects" on/off button.
This works now even on my MacBook Pro, where "sysctl -a | grep -i avx2" returns "hw_optional.avx2_0: 0". Hope this helps.
Thank you for your message.
But, I can't find "Background effect".
My capture is here.
% sysctl -a | grep -i avx2
hw.optional.avx2_0: 1
Grandswiss Thanks for further confirmation that AVX2.0 is the discriminator.
Now if only we can get someone at Microsoft to discuss why they changed the code to require it when blur worked fine on AVX1.0 devices on the previous version of Teams.
