I've been killing myself for days trying to figure out why my recordingsfrom satelite via MyTheatre were killing WIndows Media Player.

I have an AMD64 3700+ 1G + ATI 9700 mobility gpu laptop that keeps crapping out playing recorded mpeg2 files from Satelite.

I know the mpeg2 are missing frames etc. but I tried the same file on a slower laptop and they played fine. The slower laptop showed artifacting etc. in the bad spots but didn't freeze up like mine.

Is my assumption that the mpeg2 codec on my laptop can't handle these files? Could someone suggest better ones to use for a ATI 9700 mobilty system or a software player for that matter.

I tried a few different players on my laptop but the only one that seemed to run smoothly was VLC.

Thanx in advance.