option to disable font cache storage on disk

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option to disable font cache storage on disk

Postby SoBugMeNot » 14 Jul 2010 03:59

Some users have reported problems with the font cache being recreated too often:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=78130
http://portableapps.com/node/24005
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 36&start=0
VLCPortable users also have problems when running the player from different PCs.

So i'm requesting an option to simply disable the disk storage of the font cache.
The font cache, if it is really necessary, may be kept in main memoy while VLC is running.

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Re: option to disable font cache storage on disk

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 16 Jul 2010 14:38

VLC portable is not our issue.

Recreation of the font cache is long...
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Re: option to disable font cache storage on disk

Postby TrueCHoJiN » 25 Jul 2010 11:52

Over, and over, and over I see the same post...
Can I disable the font cache rebuild?
Pretty simple Yes or No question.
And all I see is: Try this, or this, or maybe this...
But the question never actually gets answered...


Well, I'm having the same problem...my font cache also rebuilds every time I play a new movie.
(I have over 50,000 fonts installed. This new "feature" is VERY annoying...
  • Windows x64 Ultimate
    not using portable VLC
    yes, the ache file is being created
    %appdata%/vlc is not on a network share
    have tried removing %appdata%/vlc
Why should I have to read any of these posts? Or check any of the above solutions??
When if the end-user could just disable this "feature" there would be NO problem...amazing...


So I will ask it one, more, time...
"Can I disable the font cache rebuild?"
Yes or no?

If not, I should just go to a previous version and turn off that update check...
Appears to be the simplest fix... After reading multiple posts...

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Re: option to disable font cache storage on disk

Postby SoBugMeNot » 16 Aug 2010 04:20

VLC portable is not our issue.

Recreation of the font cache is long...
Ok about that.
What i don't understand now is:
what this "legendary" font cache is it for?
I mean, can't fonts be loaded directly when needed instead of having a cache of them? :?


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