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New DRM enabling method for systems with AMD GPU

Just to update to hardware encoding:
I've done encoding testing using Windows 10 Pro and macOS 11.0.1( SMBIOS 19,2 without additional AMD kext or gfx patching in device properties, just plain OC 0.6.3) and export times are the same to the second. Interestingly, DaVinci Resolve uses more dGPU on Windows, and Cut Fine Pro seems to use less dGPU and more Intel iGPU but times are about the same. However metal bench marks using geekbench and GFXbench in Big Sur are little slower than Catalina( I guess that will be addressed in future updates). kexts used: Lilu, VirtualSMC,WEG(no shiki). Some advice if moving from clover to OC is to completely remove clover scripts, as it adds boot and shutdown scripts to update NVRAM that's not needed with OC and can mess things up.

Hope this is of some help to someone :)
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It should be noted that those who are using iMacPro1,1 system definition do not need the "shikigva=16" boot argument. Apple TV, Amazon on Safari, Netflix on Safari, etc should all work just as it always has.
Hi @pastrychef , I went with iMacPro1,1 on Big Sur 20B29 and Apple TV is working fine but Amazon Prime in Safari is not. Any suggestions?
 
Hi @pastrychef , I went with iMacPro1,1 on Big Sur 20B29 and Apple TV is working fine but Amazon Prime in Safari is not. Any suggestions?

I have no idea why it's not working for you. I just watched Gemini Man on Amazon Prime a few days ago on Safari from beginning to end.
 
I have no idea why it's not working for you. I just watched Gemini Man on Amazon Prime a few days ago on Safari from beginning to end.
Gemini Man was good! :) I'm using DP 1.4 and get the following from Amazon. Firefox installed Widevine and it plays just fine. Guess I can use that as my alternative. Small price.

This video can't play on your device as it doesn't meet content protection standards. All of your displays and cables must be HDCP compliant. Try disconnecting video devices from your computer, including secondary monitors and TVs, refresh the page and try again. See our troubleshooting tips for more information. If this problem continues, please contact Amazon Customer Service at www.amazon.com/video/contactus and refer to error 7279.
 
Gemini Man was good! :) I'm using DP 1.4 and get the following from Amazon. Firefox installed Widevine and it plays just fine. Guess I can use that as my alternative. Small price.

This video can't play on your device as it doesn't meet content protection standards. All of your displays and cables must be HDCP compliant. Try disconnecting video devices from your computer, including secondary monitors and TVs, refresh the page and try again. See our troubleshooting tips for more information. If this problem continues, please contact Amazon Customer Service at www.amazon.com/video/contactus and refer to error 7279.

I think video quality is not as good if you are not using Safari. Is your IGPU disabled?
 
I think video quality is not as good if you are not using Safari. Is your IGPU disabled?
I set Advanced \ System Agent (SA) Configuration \ Graphics Configuration → Primary Display: PCIE and iGPU Multi-Monitor: Disabled. I don't know how to disable iGPU on PRIME Z390-A.
 
I set Advanced \ System Agent (SA) Configuration \ Graphics Configuration → Primary Display: PCIE and iGPU Multi-Monitor: Disabled. I don't know how to disable iGPU on PRIME Z390-A.

Sounds like you have it disabled... I don't know why it's not working for you. All I did was choose iMacPro1,1.
 
I set Advanced \ System Agent (SA) Configuration \ Graphics Configuration → Primary Display: PCIE and iGPU Multi-Monitor: Disabled. I don't know how to disable iGPU on PRIME Z390-A.

@Douic,

You need to enable Multi-Monitor mode, Its badly worded and has been in all BIOS's ....
It should really be called Multi GPU mode (dGPU + IGPU).

Cheers
Jay
 
@Douic,

You need to enable Multi-Monitor mode, Its badly worded and has been in all BIOS's ....
It should really be called Multi GPU mode (dGPU + IGPU).

Cheers
Jay
hey jaymonkey, if I'm running iMacPro1,1 I should set it to Multi-Monitor? Thought the idea was to disable the iGPU. Won't Multi-Monitor enable iGPU?
 
if I'm running iMacPro1,1 I should set it to Multi-Monitor? Thought the idea was to disable the iGPU. Won't Multi-Monitor enable iGPU?

@Douirc,

Sorry my mistake I did not realise you where running the MacPro1,1 SMBIOS ... in which case Multi-Monitor mode should be disabled to force all MacOS Video API's to use the dGPU.

Cheers
Jay
 
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