Protected video playback with the intel HD4600

Hello people of /r/hackintosh!

  This guide will focus on enabling Hardware Encoding (protected video playback) on the HD 4600 integrated GPU from Intel.

  What is Hardware Decoding? And why would I want it?

  Hardware Decoding helps speed up the general performance of the MacOS experience on hackintoshes. This can be achieved by adding a kext to your current clover install.

  Okay, sounds cool! How do I do it? We'll need a few things: (Shiki & Lilu are clickable links) *Shiki *Lilu * NvidiaGraphicsFixup (this is when you have a Nvidia card. Without this, Encoding will not work.) * A connectorless ig-platform-id * We're going to add a boot flag

  Place Shiki and Lilu into /EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts/Other. Also - make sure that you are injecting kexts. To make sure you are; open your config.plist in either Clover Configurator or a text editor of your liking.

Clover Configurator

  Select System Parameters in the sidebar and set Inject Kexts to Yes.

Editing the XML file (text editor)

  Go to <key>System Parameters</key> and look for <key>InjectKexts</key, set it to <string>Yes</string.

All good!

  Now, time to configure our IGPU in the config.plist.

  Open your config.plist (I am not going to go into detail about the XML formatting) and set your ig-platform-id to 0x04120004, you also want to inject Intel.

So far, we have done the following:

  * Added Shiki and Lilu to our collection of kexts. * Setup our IGPU with the proper ig-platform-id and injected our IGPU.

  There's only one thing left to do!

  In your config.plist, add shikivga=60 as a boot flag.

  We are done setting up! This is the time to restart.

  After you have restarted you will notice... Nothing! The actions we just performed do not change anything visually. Now, it's time to test if what we did worked!

  Download this and do chmod +x /path/to/file in Terminal.app. After you have done this, you can run the executable by dragging the file into terminal and hitting enter.

  If your output contains Hardware acceleration is fully supported, you did it!

  If that is not the case, you might want to look here and ping me in the official /r/hackintosh discord server (invite link in sidebar to the right).

  Thanks to @sause#5252 and @CorpNewt#4290 for informing and helping me set this up initially.