A method, system, and computer-usable medium are usable for receiving a video stream of image frames in a video format, decoding image frames of the video stream from the video format, for each respective frame of the image frames, upon completion of decoding of the respective frame, asynchronously encoding the respective frame into a lossless compression format, and asynchronously streaming all of the respective frames as encoded into the lossless compression format as a resulting video stream for display to a video display device.