Problem with playing MPEG-2 videos via VLC

[1J1]

So my friend sent me MPEG-2 videos (which were decoded from his Tivos) & those contain closed captions / subtitles which can be seen only via playing those videos on VLC player (that's how he plays them too but without any problems) - at least I tried with other players I have but got nothing. But there's one issue - with or without the CC on, VLC barely plays those videos - first it goes all fine but near the middle of a 20 mins video the audio starts disappearing & then disappears at all, then the video goes slow & then everything freezes/pauses so I have to restart that VLC & have same problem - same goes for all those MPEG-2 videos. Also the player freezes when I jump back during playing those. I tired playing them on other players, like MPC, and everything is fine there, but CC (which are actually important to me) don't show up.
I downloaded / reinstalled latest version of VLC, downloaded newest codecs, etc but the problem still stays. Please help!

Kind regards

[poisondeathray]

How did he send them to you? Maybe something was damaged in the transfer ?

Ask what version of VLC your friend is using, try using the same one

[1J1]

He uploaded them to filehosting site & gave the link. Not sure about his VLC version though - older or latest one.
I can play without any problems those videos in MPC, Windows player, edit/play/convert in say AVS converter or editor, Winamp doesn't play them at all though.
I would also like to know if there are any other players that would play MPEG-2 with CC/subtitles visible?

[1J1]

Anyone?

[Baldrick]

Doesn't mpchc support cc?

Or they might be corrupt as poison mentions. VLC shouldn't have any problem playing mpeg2. Can you redownload them again?

[1J1]

No, the CC don't show up in MPCHC - I tried everything in preferences but no result. Unfortunately, I can't redownload the videos.