(2013-08-13, 10:49)gwegner Wrote: You should be able to play 1080p and 720p footage without problems up to quality "high" - the higher the resolution and quality, the more problems normal players might cause. When exporting from LR4 you never had quality settings as high as now and the 3K/4K footage refused to play on some players as well. This is more a problem of the players and the hardware you are using.
But as I said - output qualities over "high" and resolutions higher then 1080p are mainly for post processing, and they work very well in Video processing programs.
I am rendering 1080p high, it takes too long if I try anything higher.
I use a Dell XPS 1302 laptop with NVIDEA GEForce GT540M processor, with 4G graphics memory and 6GB RAM onto a Seagate4TB backup Pro.
I think there is a problem with Media Player, which is a pity, as I don't use the others much and they are not working well with everything running.
I will try loading the sequences into Premier Essential and see if that works. WMP plays them well on my work laptop, but possibly because nothing else with heavy graphics usage is running.
I don't want to change my Laptop till next year, but could upgrade the RAM to 16GB to help speed up my machine if you think that would help.
Thanks Ian