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Is there a way to use the command line to disable the font cache rebuild? Having it spend up to 2 minutes to rebuild it for each file in my playlist is quite unacceptable. This is not to say I don't appreciate the work you all do on the project, I do, it's just that something like this can and most likely will force people to choose other players.

No, it just run once at the first playback and never after.

DIsheartening as this is not the behavior I described, but thank you for the swift reply.

Does %appdata%/vlc feature a cache file?

Yes.

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\vlc

Contains the file:

d031bbba323fd9e5b47e0ee5a0353f11-i686.cache-2

But every time I close vlc this file disappears. And the file name periodically changes.

Every time you close vlc it disappears? O_o

Yes, as well sometimes the file has different names, ie the random number/letter sequence changes.

I'll try to investigate.

I figured it out. Turns out I was using VLCPortable from someplace I consider reputable, and I was able to recompile their launcher so that it copied and restored the ***-i686.cache-2 file to the appropriate place. I no longer get the font cache rebuild message. Their launcher was deleting the directory without copying all the files first. And had no provision for copying the file back before launching vlc again.

By the way, thanks for the help and concerned responses to this thread. The questions asked of me were of great help in pointing me to a solution that worked for me.

I figured it out. Turns out I was using VLCPortable from someplace I consider reputable, and I was able to recompile their launcher so that it copied and restored the ***-i686.cache-2 file to the appropriate place. I no longer get the font cache rebuild message. Their launcher was deleting the directory without copying all the files first. And had no provision for copying the file back before launching vlc again.

So the bug is in VLCPortable?

It was, yes it deleted the cache-2 file rather than moving it as a setting file to be put back on next run.

No, it just run once at the first playback and never after.

You mean it runs once? Well, I wish it was so, but NOT for me... All new file types are rebuilding font cache and it takes up to 5 minutes!
Lame suggestions like slow computer or a lot of stuff for the system are denied... This is a new, fast and clean computer...
I couldn't find any option to disable "font cache rebuilding" so I'm going back to previous version - it works better!

HI there

I've signed up purely to advise what I've done.

Right click on the VLC exe and seleect properties.
Click the compatibility tab and check the box for 'Run this program in compatibility mode for'
then select Vista Service Pack 1

Apply and ok

I just did this on Windows 7 and not only does the font cache loading thing not come up, but VLC opens instantly instead of having that couple of second delay.

Sorted