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Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby m.e » 04 Jun 2010 18:18

Vlc crashes when trying to rebuild font cache so I was wondering if it's possible to disable this feature?

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Re: Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby VLC_help » 04 Jun 2010 19:05

You might want to try remove %appdata%\vlc folder and then try again.

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Re: Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby TrueCHoJiN » 25 Jul 2010 11:49

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: Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby VLC_help » 25 Jul 2010 21:28

It cannot be disabled.

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Re: Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby chief piggum » 07 Aug 2010 05:29

what do you mean it cant be disabled? everytime i change video i get building font cache crap .. seriously.. VLC is becoming like google now .. at first very good and reliable and then they start adding stupid --please stay polite-- that wasnt needed it before .. guess is back to BS.PLAYER .. idiots

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Re: Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby VLC_help » 07 Aug 2010 16:19

what do you mean it cant be disabled?
There isn't an option to disable font cache generation in current VLC builds.

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Re: Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby azthai » 08 Aug 2010 06:22


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Re: Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby misthero » 14 Aug 2010 17:37

thank you, finally removed that boring rebuilding font cache.

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Re: Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby ChetSteadman » 25 May 2011 04:15

worked for me. soooooo, vlc support doesn't know about this feature? hmmmmmm

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Re: Disable Font Cache Rebuild

Postby VLC_help » 25 May 2011 13:44

That disables all fonts, so you will lose e.g. text subtitle support. Proper solution will be in VLC 1.2.0


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