DVDs play on DVD drive but freeze on player

[~PJ~]

No - locked after 2:56. However, I did do that one on the ofice machine, which is the server for the internet, printers and external backup drive. laso, I having removed the linked files and embedded them, I forgot to adjust the timings, so there were some very strange things going on...
I've just done a clean install on the fastest computer I have, and put NOTHING except for Office and PowerVideoMaker on, so i'm having one more go.

[~PJ~]

I think I've found a connection between the files that will play and those that won't;
Take a look at these three screen shots - in particular the video Date rate.







The first and third are from files that play; the second from a file that won't. When I looked at the summary for all the avi files I still had on the computer [idiot that I am, I deleted most of the more recent ones to save disk space...] the ones that will play through on my standalone player had relatively low Vieo Data Rates - mostly below 100kps - the ones that won't play are nealry 200kps or even higher - like no 2 here!

Otherwise, the settings are all the same [apart from the running time]. So - what do we think? And if this looks like the problem, what can I do about it??