Having a problem when playing MPEG-based files

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Interesting problem I have encountered here. When I attempt to play
any MPEG-based video file, regardless of the playing software used, I
can hear the audio, but no video. At this point I if I go to pause or
stop the playback the current active player window will freeze. After
this freeze, I can open up another type of player and play any
MPEG-based file without any problems as much as I want whenever I want.
This problem is not related to just one type of playing software. For
example: I will attempt to play an AVI in Media Player Classic, get
sound no video, stop playback, then Media Player Classic will lock up.
After it locks I can open up whatever I wanted to view in Windows Media
Player and it will playback without any problems at all. In
retrospect, if I were to start playback in Windows Media Player first,
it would be the program that locks, then I would be able to view
whatever I wanted in Media Player Classic. I've tested this with the
Divx Player 6, WMP10 Media Player Classic 6, Real Player 10. And the
symptoms follow each of these programs. Not sure if I'm dealing with a
codec issue on this one or not considering I can actually achieve
successful playback, but at the price of fowling up another player
temporarily to do so. I do not encounter this problem with other video
types (mov, rm, etc). Only seems to occur with AVI, WMV, MPEG-based
formats. As a last note, when I attempt to close the player that
encounters the hang, my system will hard lock causing to me have to
kill the power and start over from a cold boot.

System specs are as follows:

Windows XP Professional
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (~1.5ghz)
512MB DDR PC2700
ATI Radeon 9000 64mb (latest driver)
80GB Hard Drive
DirectX 9.0c

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