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It would be nice if users could create multiple subtitle presets, so that they can switch quickly between them - or even better that VLC automatically switches them according to the language code defined in a subtitle track. I'm a language learner and sometimes I watch movies that have a different c...

Grab ProcMon (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx) and have it show the files vlc.exe is accessing. That might give you a clue as to what it is doing, and if it is indeed reading the same font over and over again. Thank you !!! This was a very good advice. I found the prob...

Thanks a lot for your kind support. In the meantime I stick with version 1.0.5. And if I find the time, I will do more tests on my computer with version 1.1.0. I really want to find out what the problem is. My system is a Windows XP SP3 professional, basically a fresh installation, because just a fe...

How many fonts do you have in C:\Windows\Fonts? 148 fonts. Default number of fonts shipped with Windows XP is 136. Edit: I've been testing with the portable version now, but the problem persists :-( Edit #2: I don't know if this is important to mention. But I have also installed support for East As...

How long did you let it? Half an hour at least. As I said, it never stops. It's an endless process that keeps scratching my HDD in a repetitive manner, such as hanging processes do. Tried everything so far, re-installing VLC also didn't help. I reverted to version 1.0.5 now, but I'd like to upgrade...

EDIT: Before you read any further. This problem has been solved. VLC is not the problem. I had two corrupted font files in my Windows installation. In case you have a similar problem, check the font files in your Windows fonts folder. I have installed East Asian languages support and it seems somet...