Radeon RX 4XX/5XX standalone system, AMDRadeonX4250.kext (GVA support H264) does not support HEVC HW

[macnb]

Hi macnb,

I have the same CPU and a similar motherboard as you. I tried to set my SMBIOS to iMacPro1,1 and disabled IGPU in BIOS. I also had the dummy152.kext but I still couldn't get my HEVC encoding working. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Joseph

What are you using to do the HEVC encoding ?
FCPX 10.4.8 and compressor 4.4.6 does not work anymore with macOS 10.15.2 and RX 5XX GPU

 

[glofter1]

I'm surprised that you believe your Ivy Bridge CPU power management is working with any help except for PlugInType=1 for iMacPro1,1 model ID. Have you checked that the SpeedStep P-States switch actually step across the whole range using Hackintool ? Also have you checked the CPU power consumption and average speed during idle which ?

And where to download this scrypt. /ResourceConverter.sh

 

[macnb]

And where to download this scrypt. /ResourceConverter.sh

see GitHub here, read the instructions.md and check the Tools folders

 

[CodeDJ]

Then hevc doesn’t work for you

If I run the same file using Movist, CPU usage by Movist is only 6-8%. WindowServer is at 20%. What does that mean? With mpv it was 170%.

Also downloaded jellyfish-3-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv - same thing.

 

[MacPack]

What are you using to do the HEVC encoding ?
FCPX 10.4.8 and compressor 4.4.6 does not work anymore with macOS 10.15.2 and RX 5XX GPU

interesting you would say that.
z390 gaming x
8700k
Rx 570
10.15.2

changed smbios to Mac Pro 7,1
BUT I enabled igpu in bios

compressor encodes via hardware (I’ll check version number when I have a chance)
Handbrake encodes via hardware

 

[Ritte]

If I run the same file using Movist, CPU usage by Movist is only 6-8%. WindowServer is at 20%. What does that mean? With mpv it was 170%.

Also downloaded jellyfish-3-mbps-hd-hevc-10bit.mkv - same thing.

Can you try the 400mbps one? If cpu doesn’t spike then it seems to work.

 

[macnb]

encodes via hardware

yes but WHICH hardware - IGPU or AMD GPU ???
Check using @mitch_de's AMD menu tool which will tell you if AMD GPU is encoding (it will say ENC=YES in the menu bar).

 

[CodeDJ]

Can you try the 400mbps one? If cpu doesn’t spike then it seems to work.

With WEG 1.3.6 and Lilu 1.41:
Video plays smoothly each time. CPU is random at the beginning. See screenshots - sometimes around 50-70% sometimes 30% sometimes even 10% but after 1/3rd video is done playing it goes down to around 7-10%.

With WEG 1.3.5 and Lilu 1.4.0:
The video was struggling to play, could hear the fan(s). The CPU shot up to 243% see last screenshot.


Screenshots with WEG 1.3.6 and Lilu 1.41:

Screenshot with WEG 1.3.5 and Lilu 1.4.0:

 

[Ritte]

With WEG 1.3.6 and Lilu 1.41:
Video plays smoothly each time. CPU is random at the beginning. See screenshots - sometimes around 50-70% sometimes 30% sometimes even 10% but after 2/3rd video is done playing it goes down to around 7-10%.

With WEG 1.3.5 and Lilu 1.4.0:
The video was struggling to play, could hear the fan(s). The CPU shot up to 243% see last screenshot.


Screenshots with WEG 1.3.6 and Lilu 1.41:
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Screenshot with WEG 1.3.5 and Lilu 1.4.0:
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Then it seems to work for you, nice!
I wonder if mpv doesn’t work with hevc..

 

[glofter1]

Thanks. That CPUFriend kext helped.
I ran :

./ResourceConverter.sh -k Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4.plist

where is the file Mac-FC02E91DDD3FA6A4.plist was copied from
/System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/X86PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources

The script generated the CPUFriendDataProvider.kext which was copied to /E/C/K/Other (together with CPUFriend.kext)
Now, average CPU power consumption is much lower as the minimum 1.6Ghz is reached more often (during idle):

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This works in conjunction with my SSDT-0.aml (CPU power management SSDT) generated by PikerAlpha's ssdtPRGen.sh script for my i7-3770K (OC'ed to 4.8Ghz).

big problem for me. SO wen I try to find my CPU 2xxx gen CPU in /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/X86PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources
there is no one MAC-XXXXX witch is that I need. So I need Mac-942B59F58194171B.plist - iMac-12,2 or Mac-7BA5B2794B2CDB12.plist but both missing. I try to find in in my old Mac Sierra and again watch same file
/System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/X86PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources but again is missing.
So any Idea ?