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It might be your computer that is slow. Initial startup takes longer than subsequent startups. I upgraded to 8GB memory. Then initial startup also shorten to 2 ~ 3 second.

No. Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 2080 Super, 16 Gb of RAM.

Old topic, but I've been using VLC more recently and this is still an issue. VLC is still taking at least 5s to start. And no, it's not a "cold disk cache" thing, I have VLC installed on a NVMe SSD wth a 3000 Mo/s read/write speed, and VLC is the only software that have a noticable slow st...

Is it possible to get any help?

Hello?

Update?

Could you check that you have a (non-empty) file named "plugins.dat" in your vlc install directory\plugins ?

I do have this file. 285 Ko

Same issue here. Never had this issue before, it started recently.
And I have a very good computer, so it's not the issue (SSD NVMe, 16Gb of RAM at 3000 MHz, AMD Ryzen 7 1700X...).