H.264 1080p encoding

Hi,
I'm trying to export a Video from Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. The Footage is a combination of 720p and 1080p mp4 files (PAL). When I export it with H.264 and the option "HDTV 720p 25 - High Quality" there's no problem to watch the result in VLC Player. When I choose "HDTV 1080p 25 - High Quality" the picture freezes but the sound doesn't.
I got some other 1080p movies with H.264 codec and actually a bigger framerate and there's no problem to watch them. Also the original 1080p footage is visible in VLC Player. So I don't think that my i5 core and 4GB RAM are too bad for the videos. In my opinion the Adobe Encoder does something what my PC doesn't like.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Jojo

Ok now I found out that the television is able to show the video. But I can't understand why my PC isn't able to do so :/

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to .m2v Mpeg 2 1080P                                                            14 Minutes
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And also to call the Adobe support day by day until they send they
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