My thanks goes out to all who replied to my video problem... After following all the advice given here with no success, I approached a computer guru at my place of work who has a bigger and better machine than mine with the same MPC player and gave him my .ts file to take home and it worked as expected... Contrast was a little dark but definitely watchable... His recomendation was to get newer equipment with good video card...
Thanks again for all your help.