Question PC Specs for Smooth 4K Playback

[bcdal]

I believe my PC is getting dated and I am trying to see if it is worth being upgraded rather than starting new.

GoPro 4K videos stutter in Windows media player, but only audio comes through when viewed with VLC. Specs are:

Asus p5q Pro Motherboard
Intel Core (TM) Quan Q9550 2.83
8 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 TI

It is hard to compare the performance specs to what is listed as minimum specs for 4K, as there are so many component variables. I with there was a way to perform a hardware test of some type to score your system against minimum, good and better systems as a whole.

If I just needed RAM to make it work for instance I could add that. I assume the answers will be to not waste money upgrading, but I wanted to see if anyone has some insight.

Thanks,

 

[alceryes]

Are you streaming from the GoPro (via USB) or is the video on the computer's drive?

 

[bcdal]

From the Computer drive. Reading the file from the 870 Evo SSD or the mech hard drive I get the same results

 

[alceryes]

How does task manager - performance tab look when attempting playback?
Memory, CPU, disks, any of them pinned or close to 100%?

 

[SkyNetRising]

GoPro 4K videos stutter in Windows media player, but only audio comes through when viewed with VLC. Specs are:

Try with media player classic home cinema.

Home · MPC-HC

MPC-HC, the free, open source media player for Windows

mpc-hc.org

 

[ARICH5]

Try with media player classic home cinema.

Home · MPC-HC

MPC-HC, the free, open source media player for Windows

mpc-hc.org

good call...i use mpc-hc and svp-pro too. its updated more often than vlc.

 

[bcdal]

I installed MPC-BE as that was the easiest version I see to install. Playing a video now it is significantly improved over VLC. There is a statistics view I turned on and I can see framerates of 5-11 for the 4K video on the hard drive, and frame rates of 9-16 reading the same file from the SSD.

Both still stutter but I could at least view it.

 

[bcdal]

Performance tab while playing video in MPC-BE:

CPU 92% 2.60 GHz
Memory 91%

Those probably are not good numbers I am assuming

 

[alceryes]

Those probably are not good numbers I am assuming

No, they're not. Smooth 4K playback is being bottlenecked by both.

To confirm, you've got nothing else running in the background, correct? Have you tried temporarily disabling your antivirus (if you're running any)?