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It used to work ok with roaming profiles as well. They only appear to have broken this functionality in the last update in 1.1.5 as it always used to work fine. It just cannot handle the path properly. Most probably a simple fix but when Adobe did the same thing with the Adobe Reader it took them ov...

No still not fixed.

Hoping for 1.1.6 for Christmas!

And many also get it when they haven't got any new fonts if they haven't disabled it which seems to be a new feature!!!

I agree. It is a pain having to do the workaround on every computer with every user's account if in fact it saves the setting.

Hope it gets fixed soon. And as halo_bone points out why does it need to take quite so long anyway. I only have the standard fonts used by Windows and Office.

Robin

Thanks for the reply. The problem is a cache file never gets created in the VLC folder in the local profile on drive c or on the roaming profile. So it seems to be trying to create it and not managing it. Even deleting the vlc folder does not help. The folder gets re-created but the cache file is ne...

This annoying problem is also happening to me and has been ever since updating past VLC 1.0.5. I have kept installing the newer versions past 1.0.5 thinking that they must have fixed it but the problem remains. Every time I try to play a video it makes me wait for about two minutes while it rebuilds...

I can confirm that the issue is with the VLC software and Windows 7. I tried all the different video output modes and all were the same under Windows 7 with 1080p files (720 is watchable) It seems to mostly affect scenes with lots of light and/or action where the video will keep sticking and become ...