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Do you have "Save recently played items" checkmarked in the Tools ---> Preferences ---> "Playlist / Network Interaction" submenu? If it's not checkmarked vlc will clear the cache on exit. This helped me as well (March 2021), but perhaps these menu options should be placed togeth...

When downloading video files I sometimes try to preview them before they are finished. This is possible with avi for example. This normally works with VLC and not WMPlayer, but almost all of the time VLC chooses to play a totally unrelated video file. For example, I ripped a dvd the other day and af...