Building font cache

[tandrewm]

I just thought I would add that, like DJX, I searched my entire hard drive and network home directory and I could find no cache-2 file anywhere.

[DJX]

I ran this command from a regular CMD prompt:

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vlc -vvv --extraintf=logger

I got a "vlc-log.txt"
I looked through it but it doesn't really show me anything...
The building font cache thing happens right after the buffering:

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... main debug: Buffering 90% main debug: Buffering 90% main debug: Buffering 90% main debug: Buffering 90% main debug: Buffering 90% main debug: Buffering 90% main debug: Buffering 91% main debug: Buffering 91% main debug: Buffering 93% main debug: Buffering 94% main debug: Buffering 94% main debug: Buffering 96% main debug: Buffering 99% main debug: Buffering 99% main debug: Stream buffering done (1202 ms in 185 ms) freetype debug: Took 37550000 microseconds freetype debug: Using Arial as font from file C:/Windows/fonts/arial.ttf freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" main debug: TIMER module_need() : 73320.003 ms - Total 73320.003 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 73320.000 ms) main debug: looking for video filter2 module: 18 candidates swscale debug: 32x32 chroma: YUVA -> 16x16 chroma: YUVA with scaling using Bicubic (good quality) main debug: using video filter2 module "swscale" main debug: TIMER module_need() : 5.000 ms - Total 5.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 5.000 ms) main debug: looking for video filter2 module: 18 candidates yuvp debug: YUVP to YUVA converter main debug: using video filter2 module "yuvp" main debug: TIMER module_need() : 10.000 ms - Total 10.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 10.000 ms) main debug: window size: 853x480 main debug: Deinterlacing available ...

Also, some more information:
If I load a video file, don't let it finish, then pop another one on, I don't have to "...build font cache..."

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Are you launching MSys or MSys (rxvt) ?

[mfk]

hello, same problem here..videos won't play and the whole pc freezes while cache is rebuild, it takes a lot of time i can't even go through the end of it...
i'm not that skilled to understand what you are trying to do.. what do i do??

in the meantime i reinstalled the previous version and it works as usual..

[SDMI]

Same 'building font cache' with me too. It seems random, can't see a pattern to it as yet. I don't have any network drives. Just a laptop running Vista 32bit Home Premium. I didn't customise anything during install either. Although I downloaded the install file to my d: partition and run it from there???

This might be a complete co-incidence and I know you don't need red herrings thowing you off but my problems started after running 'Auslogics - Defrag & Optimise' (just once since I installed) and it's has been happening at random since.

I used to get this font cache with VLC 0.9x on my other laptop and I noticed that it went away and never came back after I disabled 'search indexing' to improve general performance. Again may be a red herring.

[SDMI]

One thing everybody should be aware of is programs like 'CCleaner' wipe the 'font cache', just for information.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Font cache is rebuilt when fonts of the computer have changed.

[SDMI]

I installed OpenOffice today which obviously contains fonts, and VLC did the font caching thing again afterwards. So it did the caching thing because openoffice installed more fonts.....ok.... so wouldn't this problem go away if VLC just used a few of the popular fonts (Ariel, Times Roman etc) and ignored any new ones that may come along with new software installs? Who wants/needs fancy fonts for subtitles anyway??

Is having the option of a zillion fonts really worth waiting the minuite and half of "Building Font Cache" before a video will play? Even videos that don't have subtitles anyway? One of the main reasons I use VLC is because of it's quick no nonsense start up. If everytime a windows update like 'IE compatibility view list' or any other software or update that might contain a font, causes the font cache to rebuild, it might be quicker (never thought i'd say this..) to use Windows Media Player

[mfk]

Font cache is rebuilt when fonts of the computer have changed.

i don't see how anything could have changed, i just updated vlc when the message popped up; before everything was working fine, after i keep getting the cache building thing... nothing changed except for the vlc update..

[frito]

On my Vista Home machine w/ VLC Portable v1.1.0, I receive this building font cache message each time I open the player and drag/drop a file onto it. If I leave it open and change file type, I don't get it again. I also get message when attempting to play files from web (by clicking video link) each time, as a new instance of VLC opens.

On my XP netbook, same experience. There are no changes on either machine (no cleaning, no installs). I can repeat the message every time I open VLC regardless of video file type.

No networked drive location. I don't see any creation of %appdata%/vlc.

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help identify the issue.

This started with v1.1.0 as I never saw this message previously.

[VLC_help]

That is problem of VLC portable. We don't maintain it.

[DJX]

Well, I'm not using portable so this is still very much a problem for me.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Well, I'm not using portable so this is still very much a problem for me.

You have the issue with both setup ?

[DJX]

Only when a users application data (AppData\Roaming\...etc) resides on a server via a UNC path (\\server.domain.tld\Users\Data\...etc)

I never referenced VLC portable.

[VLC_help]

I never referenced VLC portable.

frito did.

[tarses]

Hi

I can confirm the issue on Win XP Prof. with VLC 1.1.0 and profil folder on a network drive.

[kleptomarnie]

Is this issue resolved? It's still happening for me. Whenever I try to open any file, a message will pop up saying "rebuilding font cache"; then the player crashes. I haven't been able to use the program at all for at least a week. I'm running Windows Vista, newest version of VLC.

[DJX]

Still a problem...
I even tried the latest VLC nightly.

[alxx]

Getting the same under windows 7 ultimate 64 bit

font cache rebuilds after every start of vlc 1.1.0 and every reboot
only getting it on windows 7 not on xp sp3

not getting crashes though , its working perfectly over than the font cache rebuilding

[AEN007]

11July2010

Greetings.

This "Rebuilding font cache" is giving me a problem.
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=79079&p=260350#p260350
I use the "no-installer" VLC download from VideoLAN.
VLC never rebuilt fonts before 1.1.0.
VLC 1.0.5 works just fine on my XP laptop "T", but 1.1.0 does not.
I hope to find a solution.

Any helpful replies/insights appreciated.
Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
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[publius]

VLC 1.1.0 The Luggage, Windows XP Pro, current on all updates, everything on local drives/partitions.

I have had a single instance of VLC open for several days (with periodic hibernation), & it has just today started doing this. I noticed the behaviour after updating OpenOffice. Please note that this occurred when opening three video files, each after the previous one had stopped playing, not just once (which would be reasonable).
After exiting VLC, opening a new instance by opening a file with the context menu, the same behaviour occurs. Exiting again, opening a new instance from the Start Menu, then loading a file with "Media > Open File", it does not occur. Exiting again, opening a new instance by opening a file with the context menu, it continues not to occur.

[princesseve]

VLC 1.1.0 is a big mistake. Take it back. I've upgraded on two computers now and both of them no longer work. I can't seem to get back to 1.0.5 either. Windows 7--one computer is 64 bit, one 32 bit. I get the Building font cache error on the 32 bit. I get audio but no video on the 64 bit. I hate having to rely on WMC. I want my functional VLC back!

[princesseve]

Now that I'm calmer, I'd like to ask if anyone can tell me how to get 1.1.0 off my computer. I'd like to reinstall 1.0.5, which actually worked. I've uninstalled 1.1.0 and rebooted and when I install 1.0.5 and look at the version . . . it says it's 1.1.0 and hangs up with the font cache error. Every time I get that error, I have to reboot the computer because I can't kill VLC. Even task manager can't stop the process and it eats up memory and hangs in the background--even after I've uninstalled the program. I want to go back to the version of VLC that worked. Any suggestions?

Windows 7 Pro, 32 bit.

[crazymuddafushu]

Try this...

Go into "Tools"

Click "Preferences"

Move to the bottom of the window where is says "Show Settings" and click the "All" button...

This should take you directly into the "Advanced" area of the Advanced Settings...

Find the "Use Plugins Cache" setting and un-check it...

It worked for me.

I opened several other types of files including audio and video formats....I have not received that "building font cache" message since...

-JP

[DJX]

"Find the "Use Plugins Cache" setting and un-check it..."

..doesn't work for my setup with the users' application data redirected to a server.