Netflix streaming choppy on R2

Can someone help me. My Netflix is choppy when playing video on my R2. I added microsoft silverlight to the whitelist, but the GPU still isnt kicking on. Right now its a little choopy (enough to be annoying). I even have my compute running at high performance.

Can anyone help me out, or is anyone else experiencing this?

 

You really shouldn't need the GPU for netflix.

I would check out how fast your cpu is going when playing netflix as it could be a throttling issue (power setting) and look at the quality of your internet connection (wifi). You can try ethernet to determine if wifi is the issue.

 

Yeah, the IGP can handle Blu Ray at high bitrates. It shouldn't be your bottleneck.

 

I've never tried Netflix streaming. I'm assuming you're referring to HD streaming rather than SD. Are you having stuttering playback on all of their titles or just some? They appear to have a couple of different methods for encoding their streams. I'd be interested in know what codecs and the bitrates of the titles you're having problems with.

This article is a little dated, but it outlines some of the variables that might a part of the problem you're having if it's only on certain titles.

Netflix - Encoding for streaming

If you can ascertain that it's certain codecs or certain high bitrates then that might give you a means of tracking down the issue. If it's happening with SD stream or all streams then I'd look at wifi like MaxGeek suggested.

 

I will try tonight on my R2 I7. Alot of the newer TV shows are HD while most movies are SD 480P

 

Seeing choppyness on Lost HD version. I am running on balanced plugged into the wall.

 

Plugged in as in ethernet? What's CPU look like? Can you tell what bitrate the stream is?

 

Wireless, buts its got plenty of buffer. Yes I am plugged in. Its a 720P stream, as far what its encoded, what ever silverlight uses. CPU is 30-35% average.

 

Yeah, 720p should be no problem over wifi. I do seem to recall people bagging on silverlight streaming video during winter olympics. If I recall correctly the main problem then was with CPU utilization? Is silverlight up to date? I'm sure it is... hmmm...

Anyway, the IGP should not be choking on 720p, or 1080p for that matter.

 

I have no issues with youtube 720HD. I will keep looking into it and post my findings.

 

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Well I tired steaming over wireless and it will not stream over HD. even in SD it is still choppy. Again, I dont know what the reason is, if its silverlight (tried adding to whitelist but that didnt work), if its the internet connection, or if its the computer. I hope that is just silverlight, but it stinks nonetheless.

I wanted to have the ability to stream netflix through my laptop and eventually push it to the tv via HDMI like everything else I do.

 

My guess is that it's silverlight. I have no experience with streaming Netflix. What is being used for playback? Is it browser based? Their own player?

EDIT: I found this article which might provide some insight. There's lots of similar sites/blogs out there where people are having problems like you describe.