Unable to watch uncompressed 1080p videos.

[Gojet]

Hello.

I'm able to watch 99% of videos on my PC without issue. Youtube, Netflix (Both in 1080p), and most locally-stored videos play just fine.

The issue is (As in the title) uncompressed videos do not play back smoothly. They work for a few seconds, before the video stutters and eventually stops (The audio continues playing normally, however).

It's only videos in 1080p though. For example, I have another video that's uncompressed which plays at 720p 60 fps. This video plays back fine. But the uncompressed 1080p 30 fps video doesn't play properly.

The only bottleneck I can think of is the Hard Drive being unable to stream the huge amount video data quickly enough (A 3-minute video is almost a full GB)

So buying an SSD would probably fix the issue. But I was wondering if there's a way to load the whole video onto my RAM so the hard drive doesn't have to stream it in real time? Or is the issue completely different?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

5MB/s shouldn't be an issue. And 1080p30 is pretty much the same bandwidth as 720p60.

Where the hell do you get hold of uncompressed video, and why can't you compress it before playing it?

Have you tried a different player?

 

[Gojet]

I sometimes look for uncompressed video of games. Youtube's compression has a horrible effect on image quality, and video games are some of the worst affected by this. So the only way to watch videos without these artifacts, is to download an uncompressed (Or lossless compressed) video and play it from the hard drive. I usually delete the video after watching it.

I'm using the standard Windows Media Player in Windows 7.

 

[FaxingBerling]

Give VLC a shot or Cyberlink Power DVD both can work out very well for 1080p.

 

[Gojet]

Thanks VLC works great. I've heard the standard Windows Media Player was bad, but I didn't think it was so bad that it simply couldn't play certain videos altogether.