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Sorry about that somehow missed the two newer posts when I was looking. For anyone else asking the answer as to why it's missing is on the bug tracker https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9486

VLC 2.1 has been running smoothly without the issues you describe for me on Windows 8.1. I'd try clearing your preferences and/or reinstalling if you haven't already.

I can't find FluidSynth under the audio codec options in settings. If it had been intentionally removed I would have assumed it would have been noted in the change log. Can anyone confirm why it's been removed, if this was something overlooked in building the latest version for Windows, or do I now ...