TESTED ON UBUNTU 's 15.10 (Wily) and 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) and 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)
it works on every edition after 12.04
REVIEWED 02/23/2016
NETFLIX-DESKTOP
After trying lots of different kind of things to solve this problem (with any luck on mi side) I figure that the problem consists that the videos where running too fast, in fast forward, like 2 times faster making videos unwatchable and sound sharper. That's when I started to do some benchmark tests, and process speed comparisons.
Then, I came to the conclussion that the speed of the whole "netflix-desktop" "wine" "silverlight" and maybe other process launched from netflix-desktop were obeying the speed of the pulseaudio daemon, and this last was running too fast in my box, a 4 core cpu processor.
THE SOLUTION. (tested on 32 bits and 64 bits ubuntu distributions)
By slowing down the pulseaudio daemon with cpulimit, all run like a charm !
1- Install cpulimit if you don't have it.
$ sudo apt-get install cpulimit
2- Launch cpulimit slowing down pulseaudio and run netflix after that.
$ cpulimit -e pulseaudio -c 1 -l 10 & netflix-desktop
(although I use pulseaudio, it could work for other audio daemons, you should try)
notes:
-e pulseaudio (finds the pid by the name)
-c 1 (uses only 1 core)
-l 10 (limit the core to 10% of its speed for the chosen application)
& netflix-desktop (runs netflix-desktop inmediatly after cpulimit succeeds launching)
ENJOY !!! (please "like" it if you find it useful)