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This is starting to bug me. Running VLC (both installed and portable version from portableapps.com) in Windows XP with antivirus (tested AVG, McAfee, and Kaperskey) yeilds to horrible boot times and some lag when changing video files. I have narrowed this down to the antivirus because as soon as I disable their equivelent local file scanning utility VLC opened considerably faster.

This isn't a problem with my computer, many other programs (including WMP 11 with the CCCP plugins....) open much faster then VLC. The only other program that is affected this much is the beastly Firefox. But Firefox has been generally agreed to be huge. But I didn't think this would happen to VLC.

The boot times are the worst. On average, it takes 5 minutes with heavy disk usage. This leads me to believe VLC loads every single plugin at startup. Is this true? What does VLC initialize at boot time?

Thanks

This leads me to believe VLC loads every single plugin at startup. Is this true?

No.

What does VLC initialize at boot time?

Core engine and user interface are started with VLC.

Have you tried antivir?

Have you tried antivir?

Unfortunately no. I'm not a big fan of antivir, and would prefer not to install it simply for testing of another program.

Some other tests: On my old laptop Ubuntu 9.10 with LXDE is slow ish, while in Windows on the same computer I get the familiar horrible boot time.

The vlc core might be the culprit (GUI's are pretty easy to startup), which means I'm probably out of luck. I do remember though that way back to 0.8 or something was when it started. I actually kept an ancient portable version just for speed of opening but couldn't stand the lack of features.

Has anyone else under XP with some kind of active antivirus experienced this?