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