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Hello, I keep getting this before a video a starts playing in VLC 1.1.0 (Final)

Building font cache

Any idea why it does this and how I can disable it?

This never happened with VLC 1.0.5

Thanks to anyone who can help me resolve the issue

I am having the same problem. Whenever I double click on a video file (mp4 or avi), I get a message that it is Building Font Cache. It only takes a few seconds but I have been using vlc for several years and I have never seen this message. There are no subtitles on the videos and a cache file is not created in %appdata%\vlc. It is very annoying.

1/ Does it end?
2/ Does the fontcache file get created in %appdata%/vlc ?

I don't know about the OP but, for me, as I wrote in my post, yes it ends and no a cache file is never created.

Even when VLC is still running?

1/ Does it end?
2/ Does the fontcache file get created in %appdata%/vlc ?

Yes, within 2 minutes or so

I'm not sure, I haven't checked for that yet

Please, check that.

I just double checked and that is correct. No cache file is created in %appdata%\vlc. I am using XP and my %appdata%\vlc directory is on a network drive. I don't know if that makes a difference.

I just double checked and that is correct. No cache file is created in %appdata%\vlc. I am using XP and my %appdata%\vlc directory is on a network drive. I don't know if that makes a difference.

Hmm, that could be an issue, indeed.

Same issue but i get a cache file created in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\vlc by the name of d031bbba323fd9e5b47e0ee5a0353f11-i686.cache-2

And a few other files in there. But it rebuilds everytime.

Windows 7 64bit Pro.

Everytime you relaunch VLC? Does it get deleted at the end?

OP, here, yes there is cache file in AppData > Roaming > VLC

except it never disappears even when restarting VLC

1.1.0

W7 x86

I installed 1.1.0 at home and I do not have this issue. The font file is created in the typical appdata\vlc directory (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\vlc) and it is only created once. It appears that, for me, the issue is related to the windows/network login redirecting %appdata% to the network "home" directory. Of course, I can't be sure because the two machines are not exactly the same but they are very similar with regard to fonts.

Same problem,
The thing rebuilds the font cache when ever you try to play a video.
...or even an audio vis

Tried deleting "...\AppData\Roaming\vlc" ; same problem.

Only happens when users are running with their application data folder redirected to a server UNC path.
A cache-2 file is never created on the hard disk or on the network in this configuration (none that I could find)

Tested a user with application data not redirected, it built the cache once and was good from then on.

Hmm, possible issue with network, indeed.

I'd be willing to help you debug since I have both setups (AppData local & AppData remote).
Just let me know what you need me to do.

How computer skilly are you ?

Very,
I am a Microsoft Domain Administrator.
...
I haven't done any real programming work but I thought I might lend a hand in testing in my environment.

Cool. Is it possible for you to set-up an MSys environment?

I'll mess with setting one up when I get home...I'm looking at some guides on installing MSYS now.
...never heard of it before so this is all new to me but I think I can play with it.

I'll let you know either way.

Installed on my workstation...who knows if I did it right...or how to use it.

run vlc within it with -vvv does it show a lot of things in it?

I copied the VLC 1.1.0 Windows binary to: C:\GNUstep\home\%USERNAME%\VLC

Under C:\GNUstep, I ran msys.bat
I then entered the following:

ls
cd VLC
ls
vlc.exe -vvv

The console launches VLC (nothing unusual), I close VLC and the console returns to the current dir.

do you have all the debug displayed there?

Nope, nothing in the console...it just leaves a blank line when the program is launched and returns to the prompt when I close VLC.