[MPlayer-users] Uncompressed AVI?

[Jonathan Isom]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Uwe Dippel <udippel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I finally have a 1080p monitor (Yahoo!), and started to at least test
> it. It plays the 1080p sequences of Elephant Dream and Big Bunny
> absolutely great (as expected).
> Now, however, I have obtained a sequence of uncompressed AVI and it
> plays, but very much stuttering. Where should I put the blame? on the
> codec, player, or simply insufficient data rate from the storage
> medium?
> Can someone with more experience please look through the output and
> enlighten me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Uwe
>
> VIDEO:  []  1920x1080  32bpp  30.000 fps  1990656.1 kbps (243000.0 kbyte/s)
> ==========================================================================


Based on this line,  I'd say storage.  that is approximately 240
megabytes a second.
Unless you are using some form of raid or a solid state drive,  you
are lucky to get
65 megabytes a second on a run of the mill drive.

Jonathan