Tapped

[love Lantana]

Anyone seen the documentary 'Tapped'? watched it from NetFlix, everyone should watch it!

[Common Sense Al]

No, but that sounds good and Netflix even said HD is available on streaming so I may have to see that sooner rather than later.

[Common Sense Al]

I started watching it on Netflix on my HTPC last night... unfortunately it was a bit choppy though the resolution was good. I don't have a problem watching Netflix on my TiVoHD.

Anyone here have a problem with Netflix streaming choppiness on a PC? I searched google and it seems others have this issue too but I couldn't find a solution.

Previously I also had some type of digital rights error message telling me about my clock being set to certain date or something (apparently it had a problem with my computer's date being set correctly). Called Netflix about that one and had to delete a certain file.

I think these are Silverlight problems, but don't know for sure.

It's nice when things just work...

[neighbor]

Anyone here have a problem with Netflix streaming choppiness on a PC? I searched google and it seems others have this issue too but I couldn't find a solution.

I do from time to time. I played around a little with it, and determined that the video card is the cause and fix. I streamed to a 3+ GHz machine with 4 GB RAM and its standard on board generic video card (with 128 MB of video memory), and it chopped and gittered. Then I streamed the same content to a lowly 1.4 GHz PC with only 512 MB of RAM and a killer ATI Radeon HD 5970 video card (with 2 GB of video memory). Smooth as silk viewing. Problem is, that video card isn't cheap (around $700 the last time I looked). And it's a power hog... up to 290 watts just for itself.

BTW, that card isn't normally in the old 1.4 GHz PC. In fact, it only runs for about 20 minutes until the power supply shuts down. It's normally housed in a 4 GHz Alienware monster.

[Uther]

Not sure about that. I fiddled with my TCP/IP stack settings and that seemed to help a lot. Verizon has a FIOS-TUne up application somewhere on their website that I run if I bring anew PC in or replace the OS on as existing PC. That seems to do the trick.

I really doubt you have to have a a monster video card like that. Movies are 30 frames/second at best and my 256Mb video card in my laptop renders that in full-screen, no problem.

[Common Sense Al]

I don't think its my video card... it plays HD content recorded off the air just fine. I suspect it's a software (driver or Silverlight) issue.

I I have low end fanless ATI 5000 (5450 I think) series card in there that should be good for an HTPC. Certainly shouldn't need a 5970! I want quiet and low power (and cheap doesn't hurt either).

I haven't messed with tuning the Internet connection, but don't think that's it either as I think it has plenty of buffer... it's not stuttering (stopping then going like when YouTube runs out of buffer), it's just not playing back smoothly (small speed-ups and slowdowns).

[evblazer]

Tapped was great. I was able to watch it on my samsung netbook with no issue on netflix over wifi.
On my xbox 360 over ethernet or wifi I'll occasionally get spurts of netflix constantly adjusting the quality which happens more often when I'm on vpn to work on a different machine.