very slow startup

[jhumur]

really wouold appreciate some help...it's taking VLC almost 30 secs to load on my machine...i have a Dell 600 Latitude with 256MB or ram and a clean install of WinXP

[The DJ]

This is due to a new compression technique used on windows. We have heard more of these reports and the compression will be disabled in a next release.

[jhumur]

Can't wait for the next release...any idea when that will be?

[The DJ]

Try an experimental nightly build from http://www.videolan.org/~videolan (highly unstable) or revert to the previous version (still available from the site).

[FU.]

Faster (better?), uncompress vlc.exe and all DLLs in plugins and recompress all of them to the standard compression level (without any option).
E.g:
- upx -d vlc.exe
- upx vlc.exe
then change to the plugins directory
- upx -d *.dll
- upx *.dll

[Gibalou]

Or you can use:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... -noupx.zip

Which is exactly the same as the official 0.7.2 zip file but not compressed with upx.