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What is the purpose of the font cache anyway? Is it for subtitles? Yes, it is for subtitles and other text rendering options. If it's only for subtitles and text rendering, why can't it be disabled? What is the purpose of the font cache anyway? Is it for subtitles? Yes, it is for subtitles and othe...

I'm trying to convert the audio track on a mp4 video into mp3 audio. Whenever I hit start after selecting the source file, the destination file and the profile, VLC crashes. I've also tried .ogg and .wav with the same result. Also if I try to directly convert the audio from a youtube video, I just g...

Same exact issue here as well.
Every time I open VLC I get the "Building Font Cache"

My application data is also stored on a network drive.

What is the purpose of the font cache anyway?
Is it for subtitles?

OK, thank you for the help, I can now view youtube videos in VLC.

Now how do I save them?
If I convert them, all I get is a ~200 byte file.

I'm trying to save just the audio from a video.

I haven't found it yet either, however, I think you two guys who are being so rude should take that elsewhere. You probably would've gotten a lot more help if you had nicely asked for a link. What help? His only reply was to yell that we need to upgrade to some unreleased/non-public version. Forum ...

I also have the same problem, I just updated to 1.1.1 tonight. File reading failed: VLC could not open the file "http:\/\/v17.lscache8.c.youtube.com\/videoplayback?ip=75.0.0.0&sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cratebypass&fexp=900802&itag=22&ipbits=8&sver=3&rateb...