[davilla]

30GB is meaningless unless you know the length of the movie. bitrate is what is relevant!

Actually, bitrate is also meaningless. The one true king is knowing the video format, profile and level

Well, at high bitrates you have other problems than pure decoding popping in (network, memory bandwidth,...), so it's not quite meaningless

Sure, toss a silly high bit-rate video and you have no clue if you have a decode issue or network or other. That's why I get a chuckle when people start tossing everything at new hardware and not really thinking about minimizing the possible issues. Step one is test using known and standard encodes. Anything else is chaos and impossible to figure out.