Upgraded GPU, updated to Catalina; sleep now causes crash

[ekohn00]

you may use mpv player to test the hardware video acceleration is working

download the mpv.app and extract the file to the /Application Folder

mpv 0.31.0
https://laboratory.stolendata.net/~djinn/mpv_osx/mpv-0.31.0.tar.gz

run the mpv player in commandline, playback some video file

/Applications/mpv.app/Contents/MacOS/mpv --hwdec=videotoolbox /path/to/your/media/file

if Hardware Decoder is in use it will show

Using hardware decoding (videotoolbox).

Good info. So this is showing more of the fail:
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 1920x1080 29.970fps)

[ffmpeg/video] h264: Failed setup for format videotoolbox_vld: hwaccel initialisation returned error.

 

[pastrychef]

Im seeing mixed results so far:

Jelly Fish Plays.
The 4k videos can't be DL'd right now...I will see a bit later
I did refresh in VideoPric
Metal does show as supported and GeekBench tests worked.
Hackintool shows VDA Decoder Failed.

Hmm... That's definitely very mixed... I'm at a loss as to how to fix this.

 

[ekohn00]

Hmm... That's definitely very mixed... I'm at a loss as to how to fix this.

I'm going back through a lot of the RX5700 threads, but it seems most people have black screen problems or HDMI/DP....not much on HW acceleration.

 

[itwas]

Good info. So this is showing more of the fail:
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 1920x1080 29.970fps)

[ffmpeg/video] h264: Failed setup for format videotoolbox_vld: hwaccel initialisation returned error.

post your debug files and ioreg

or

you may try change the SMBIOS from iMacPro (dGPU) to iMac (dGPU + headless IGPU)

 

[ekohn00]

post your debug files and ioreg

or

you may try change the SMBIOS from iMacPro (dGPU) to iMac (dGPU + headless IGPU)

thanks @itwas I posted a bunch of checks with and without IGPU (all had eGPU as primary)

 

[ekohn00]

post your debug files and ioreg

or

you may try change the SMBIOS from iMacPro (dGPU) to iMac (dGPU + headless IGPU)

See attached IOREG

 

[itwas]

See attached IOREG

in your ioreg (iMac18,3), there is no IGPU device

for the SysDef iMac, supposed the system has two graphics device:

GFX0 --> connected to your monitor
IGPU --> processing the multimedia data in the background

 

[ekohn00]

in your ioreg, there is no IGPU device

my bad, @itwas

I was doing a lot of test with 1,1, and 18,3 with ipgu on and off...left it off when doing the IORegistryExplorer
Here's the IORegistryExplorer with 18,3 and IGPU on.

 

[itwas]

my bad, @itwas

I was doing a lot of test with 1,1, and 18,3 with ipgu on and off...left it off when doing the IORegistryExplorer
Here's the IORegistryExplorer with 18,3 and IGPU on.

if the framebuffer-less IGPU device is in there, you may try playback some HEVC/H.264 video clips using mpv player.

 

[ekohn00]

if the framebuffer-less IGPU device is in there, you may try playback some HEVC/H.264 video clips using mpv player.

I'm sorry....not following you? what is "framebuffer-less IGPU device is in there". I might be having a senior moment.