Netflix Desktop

Choppy video playback on Netflix-desktop

Asked by Adam Campbell

I am running a 64-bit version of Lubuntu 13.04 and I am using Radeon 3000 motherboard GPU. I used the makson96 PPA to install the legacy Catalyst drivers. All other streaming video playback works beautifully but Netflix-desktop. If i use the open source drivers, video playback on netflix is fine but all my other streaming video playback becomes choppy. Can someone help me? What makes Netflix-desktop run poorly while all other streaming video playback becomes better?

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Erich E. Hoover (ehoover) said : 		#1

Hi Adam,

Unfortunately, there is very little I can do to help you with this issue. The problem that you're running into is that netflix-desktop runs Silverlight under Wine and that Wine is likely exercising graphics features that are not well supported with the legacy driver. So, I would guess you'll either have to get a new graphics card or hope that the open source drivers improve the playback with your other streaming applications. It's also possible that some profiling of Wine would identify which graphics routines are causing slowness with the legacy driver and Wine could be tweaked to fix those issues, but it's rather difficult to get Wine working with older graphics cards (it generally relies on the latest features the driver says it supports, it can't tell if those features are supported in hardware or software).

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Adam Campbell (ajcampbell81) said : 		#2

The latest update to netflix-desktop fixed this issue. Thanks Erich! Now where did the HD button go? I think it is playing HD but I miss the button.

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Erich E. Hoover (ehoover) said : 		#3

Really? I don't think I did anything to fix this... I don't have control over SD/HD, that's something that Netflix has a configuration option somewhere on the site. They probably just moved/removed the button.

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Adam Campbell (ajcampbell81) said : 		#4

I had made it where all the other streaming worked with the open source drivers but after the new update the video was choppy in netflix like all the other video streaming was before. So i installed the amd drivers and Netflix worked well again. I changed a flag on chrome to stop vsync to get all other streaming working with the open source drivers. Now, with the amd drivers, I changed the flag back to default and everything is working well together. Before my first post, I was working around this by having lubuntu installed on my computer twice and booting back and forth. For lack of knowing a better way to do it. One had the amd drivers and one had the open source driver. I am glad that now I have only one OS. I hope this extra information is useful for something. Thanks again for all the work on this app.

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Erich E. Hoover (ehoover) said : 		#5

No problem Adam, I'm glad you like it :) I'm sure other people googling this issue will run across this.

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