I figured a grumpy red face was probably how my computer feels when I run Netflix Desktop through wine.
Hey, I've come back to Linux after 3 years and it's been a great experience coming back until I realized that Netflix (a new addition to my entertainment life) did not support being viewed on Linux systems! How silly, I pay for it monthly. Anyway, I have installed it onto my computer through Wine as the majority of ubuntu-related-install-suggestions have offered for me to do.
So let me put up the pros:
- Audio is works great,
- Video quality isn't actually that bad, unlike much of the reviews I had read,
- Other than it freezing in full screen at one point it's easy to control the window.
Okay and here is the problem!:
- When I run Netflix Desktop with Wine (how other way is there to run it?), my system heat goes from around 45℃ to 60℃ to a rather radiating 80℃ and sometimes up into the 100℃s! (Which means at some points my computer has the potential to boil water, what is remarkable is that it doesn't shut down out of fear of melting itself, so I have to do it manually.)
So far my computer has not had a heat issue running HD video in integrated video players or online streaming sources, it seems to be isolated to just running Netflix Desktop. I, from my memory, did not have a heat issue playing Netflix from Windows 7.
I cleaned my fan anyway to make sure that wasn't part of the problem, and some other suggestions put me through a list of things to do to make sure I didn't have any unessisary drivers running, and I didn't seem to be, but if someone thinks I should walk through those checks again or try new checks I'm up to suggestions.
I'm running on ASUS U33JC (Bamboo):Memory: 5.6 GiB
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 CPU M 480 @ 2.67GHz × 4
Graphics: Intel® Ironlake Mobile
64-Bit
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I'm always worried about posting things like this in case this has been reported already but in my searches I couldn't find this issue yet. If it's reported already, please let me know and I'll go there!
Thanks for the support!
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