Fast load on Windows

[Xyzzy]

Windows.
VLC startup is relatively long. Would it be possible to load VLC with some minimal number of components (configurable) and load any other when it is actually needed?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC should take less 2 seconds to launch on any machine. If it doesn't, restart VLC. If it still doesn't, you have a problem in your VLC install.

[Xyzzy]

It starts that fast, but DirectX based players (MPC) feel like starting 2-3 times faster.
When VLC is run to watch a movie or a tv program, it doesn't matter much. But I just take a look at 10-20 files a day, often playing just a 10 sec worth of content. In such use scenario, my user experience suffers from even 2 sec. long start

[VLC_help]

You could try VLC without any graphical UI to see if it starts any faster.

[Xyzzy]

I did that, but didn't see much difference. Feature request in trac?

[VLC_help]

You can create one, but I doubt anything will happen (there really aren't any Windows devs around). You can naturally remove some plugins, which should at least in theory speed up VLC startup on first time, but after that caching should make things work fast enough (for me the start time is about one second with VLC 0.9.6 under Vista).