high cpu useage running NETFLIX (UBUNTU 13.10)

Hi,

as far as I know noone has measured minimum system requirements yet (since we don't have that many PCs to test on, and would have to put this together only from the feedback we get).

The high CPU consumption is nothing unusual since its not yet possible to use GPU acceleration for video DECODING. What is indeed possible is to use GPU acceleration for video RENDERING. This is by default enabled on both Intel and Nvidia cards.

If you don't have such a graphic card, or want to check if it makes any difference, you can start wine-browser with the following commandline:

wine-browser --force-hw-acceleration

But: If your graphic card is not supported it might be possible that the Silverlight window is not rendered correctly anymore and only shows rubbish.

Another way to optimize the speed is to install the pipelight-multi libraries. Please note: Its not necessary to do any additional steps besides those mentioned below. When you search the internet you'll find a lot of different instructions, but they're always for installing pipelight standalone. I'm talking here about using netflix/lovefilm/*-desktop in conjunction with the pipelight libraries, which is also possible and even a bit easier.

To install the libraries just run:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mqchael/pipelight
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pipelight-multi

After this both wine-browser and all the netflix/lovefilm/*-desktop apps will use the pipelight libraries automatically and no further configuration is required. The main difference is that not a whole browser will run inside Wine, but just the Silverlight window - the rest runs inside the usual Linux version of firefox. This method turned out to be much faster in some cases.

Sebastian

I don't know if this is the right place to report this. But the solution proposed by Sebastian actually solved a very annoying problem I had with netflix-desktop.

I am running Ubuntu 13.10 and during playback the speed of the video and audio would randomly switch to 2 or 3x without any apparent external reason.

Installing pipeline-multi, as indicated in Sebastian's post, fixes this very annoying issue.

Thanks from the Netherlands Guys.

 It now performs better, but still no smooth moving images, stalling every few seconds.

UBUNTU 13.10, Dell Optiplex GX280 1G memory 2,8gCpu 64Gssd.

Hi Kanari,

You might want to try enabling hardware accleration (netflix-desktop --enable-hw-acceleration). This option is currently disabled by default for most graphics cards.

Erich,

command worked OK. But Nop still same problem and high CPU.