I'm guessing the files were initially linked to the hardware decoder and then got overwritten to use ATI's "hardware decoder" and thus i get software decoding using a plain player.<P>I didn't try ...

With software-based decoding, there often is inconsistency between hardware-based triggering results and software-based decoding results caused by slightly different threshold-level settings or errors ...

Can anyone point me towards a good software decoder or inexpensive hardware decoder? Stupid me (and I really feel stupid, I've been building and servicing computers for around ten years and I forgot ...