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Right,

What started causing the issue, adding ffmpeg to path since powershell wasn't recognizing ffmpeg commands, and what fixed the issue was removing it.

A quick update:

Removing ffmpeg from the Path folder on Windows and restarting my computer has fixed the issue; But I wouldn't call this a solution, just a rollback. I would still appreciate an alternative solution or at least an explanation as to what is happening here.

Cheers.

Hi, I recently installed ffmpeg to compress some videos I had, but after finally running the ffmpeg string on PowerShell to reduce a file's size, VLC started taking ~15/30 seconds to actually open any video file I try opening. Before the ffmpeg installation, it used to take < 1 second. Furthermore, ...