Netflix choppy HD video because hardware-accelerated playback is refused by silverlight
My htpc has intel i3 processor and gpu nvidia GT 430
and runs Lubuntu 13.04
When I start google-chrome-beta in a terminal pipelight writes that my gpu passes the graphic drivers check and thus GPU acceleration should be enabled.
But on Netflix HD video is choppy and glitchy !
Right-clicking and looking at the playback tab of the silverlight plug I see that "hardware-
Looking at the terminal output of google-chrome I saw two lines of
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Operation not permitted).
Googling around I found a way to change group:owner of /dev/nvida* from root:root to root:video (and I added my user to group video) by having a line in /etc/modprobe.
Googling further I began to think that this nvidia error is not the reason why silverlight cannot use hardware acceleration.
I then read some sites that state that silverlight refuses to use some gpu's for some obscure reason.
"Enable/
I installed both the stable and daily pipelight: no difference.
Unless pipelight developers can hack the binary of silverlight and force it to use my gpu, my hope for being able to watch netflix on my linux htpc is gone (I don't want to watch non-HD on my 1080p TV).
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