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Building font cache

Postby 0080900 » 23 Jun 2010 23:02

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

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Re: Building font cache

Postby tandrewm » 24 Jun 2010 00:42

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.

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 24 Jun 2010 18:04

1/ Does it end?
2/ Does the fontcache file get created in %appdata%/vlc ?
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Re: Building font cache

Postby tandrewm » 24 Jun 2010 18:14

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.

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 24 Jun 2010 18:20

Even when VLC is still running?
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Re: Building font cache

Postby 0080900 » 24 Jun 2010 21:43

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

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jun 2010 01:21

Please, check that.
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Re: Building font cache

Postby tandrewm » 25 Jun 2010 18:06

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.

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jun 2010 18:36

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.
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Re: Building font cache

Postby keypox » 26 Jun 2010 06:22

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.

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 26 Jun 2010 14:37

Everytime you relaunch VLC? Does it get deleted at the end?
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Re: Building font cache

Postby 0080900 » 27 Jun 2010 00:40

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

except it never disappears even when restarting VLC

1.1.0

W7 x86

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Re: Building font cache

Postby tandrewm » 28 Jun 2010 14:25

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.

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Re: Building font cache

Postby DJX » 29 Jun 2010 02:05

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.

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 29 Jun 2010 02:27

Hmm, possible issue with network, indeed.
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Re: Building font cache

Postby DJX » 30 Jun 2010 01:45

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.

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 01 Jul 2010 18:16

How computer skilly are you ?
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Re: Building font cache

Postby DJX » 01 Jul 2010 18:56

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

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 01 Jul 2010 18:59

Cool. Is it possible for you to set-up an MSys environment?
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Re: Building font cache

Postby DJX » 01 Jul 2010 20:34

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.

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Re: Building font cache

Postby DJX » 01 Jul 2010 23:28

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

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 Jul 2010 00:21

run vlc within it with -vvv does it show a lot of things in it?
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Re: Building font cache

Postby DJX » 02 Jul 2010 02:43

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.

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Re: Building font cache

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 Jul 2010 12:11

do you have all the debug displayed there?
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Re: Building font cache

Postby DJX » 02 Jul 2010 15:09

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.


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