iTunes Protected Video Black Screen Solution (HDCP)

Thanks for taking some time out to look at my readout - yes I have wondered at the results as well after each line, doesn't make sense to me. I will try the iMac kext in different combos and see if that will produce any results - Man I hate being beaten, updates, broken audio and trim, iMsg/F-Time I can easily brush them all aside but this is causing me to lose a few more strands on my head.

I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts as to what I can do to get HD videos playing on my Hacintosh.

I've applied all of the instructions listed in this thread to my system - installing Shiki.kext in my EFI boot sequence, and when I play a video, it actually starts. But it fails within about 8 seconds, complaining about my system not supporting HDCP.

My system is a GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 Motherboard, running a 4GHz i7 Skylake CPU, using the built in Skylake Intel video.

I'm connected via an HDMI cable from the motherboard to a Dell U2817Q 4K display, which works great for everything else, but iTunes video playing shows me this dialog box. Not sure how to proceed.

Thanks!

esafeddie said:

Thanks for taking some time out to look at my readout - yes I have wondered at the results as well after each line, doesn't make sense to me. I will try the iMac kext in different combos and see if that will produce any results - Man I hate being beaten, updates, broken audio and trim, iMsg/F-Time I can easily brush them all aside but this is causing me to lose a few more strands on my head.

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https://github.com/vit9696/Shiki/blob/master/FAQ.en.md

The faqs section on the github site may help you answer some of your questions as to the directions in the first post not making sense. But the bigger problem seems to stem with the Azul graphics that Haswell uses (HD4000 and HD4600) not working with the kext. If you are using Toleda's fixes, you may end up having to undo his work in no small part by renaming igpu to something else. This does not sound like a light hearted casual endeavor.

(In following the threads listed at the github site, one shows suggesting the Haswell problem lies outside of iTunes, but no explanation of how to work around it is suggested.)

I did go and read the faqs and tried a few of the suggestions but to no avail. For the moment I've decided to put it on the back burner at least until the final release of macOS Sierra where I will do a clean install, been planning to upgrade some of my equipment so this maybe the perfect excuse to do so. Meanwhile I will continue to flip over to the Billy Gates side to play my iTune movie collection. Thanks for all the suggestions, much appreciated.

esafeddie said:

I did go and read the faqs and tried a few of the suggestions but to no avail. For the moment I've decided to put it on the back burner at least until the final release of macOS Sierra where I will do a clean install, been planning to upgrade some of my equipment so this maybe the perfect excuse to do so. Meanwhile I will continue to flip over to the Billy Gates side to play my iTune movie collection. Thanks for all the suggestions, much appreciated.

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Have you added the boot flag to your config.plist by any chance?

UtterDisbelief said:

And @VioletDragon ...
Yes that seems like the correct output. The faq does warn you might not get a result for each command, however, as you can see, first you modify something, then you delete it. Baffles me too as to why.

I wonder if the iMac.kext/plist needs modifying to cover your ATI graphics...

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I haven't tried it on my ATI 6870 theres no need to tbh i can play DRM Protected Content as my 6870 is in my Sandy Bridge build.

VoiletDragon said:

Have you added the boot flag to your config.plist by any chance?

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Yes I did that also but was a no no.

esafeddie said:

Yes I did that also but was a no no.

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It's not needed. Remove it.

Confirming it works on my GA-Z170XP-SLI and GTX 970 after installing both the shiki.kext and the iMac.kext in my /EFI/Clover/kext/Other directory and running the terminal commands once through, then completing it with this once before rebooting:

defaults write com.apple.AppleGVA forceNV -boolean yes

Confirmed both the HD trailers as well as paid movies are playing in full HD.

Have been waiting for YEARS for this to work.

I added the iMac.kext because I found out my GTX 960 is Maxwell based but this didn't give me HD playback though. The commands for the terminal give me errors that files don't exist. Maybe something is going wrong?