vlc 0.7.2 takes a while to open... 0.7.1 didnt

[legoman666]

v0.7.1 always opened immediately, now 0.7.2 takes like 10 seconds to open. Im running winXP pro
AMD XP 3200+
radeon 9700 pro
768mb of ram

is there some setting i can change to make it open as fast as it used to or at least a little faster? Thanks

[The DJ]

Reset your preferences

[Gibalou]

I would also suggest an uninstall/reinstall cycle to get rid of old plugins which might slow down the load time.

[CryHavoc]

I have seen a slow startup time (0.7.2) when the exe and libvlc are compiled with msvc. When it is compiled with Cygwin, it starts instantly.

What compiler are you using?

[legoman666]

i didnt use any complier, i downloaded the installer. Ill uninstall and reinstall it...

[legoman666]

that didnt work, still loads slowly

[Sigmund]

in vlc 0.7.2 all exe and dll files are compressed with upx. This supposedly gives better startuptimes. Perhaps this doesn't work for you for some reason.

[legoman666]

hmm, is there a way i could get it without that compression? maybe someone could send me their own compiled version for winxp....

[Sigmund]

Good news: someone has just commited some plugin caching code to vlc. It is capable of sub-second startup times.

[ChrisB]

Same problem using 0.7.2, witht the startup under windows. Its the same if I use the installer or the standalone zip. 0.7.1 was much faster.

[legoman666]

I looked all over the site, where the heck do i download plugins from?

[Gibalou]

All the plugins that are developed by the VideoLAN team itself are included in the VLC installer.

As for the startup speed problem, could you try this version:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... -win32.exe
and tell me if you still have the same problem ?
This version also uses upx but in the final release most plugins were built into the main executable since it is supposedly faster.

[markfm]

Current builds start quickly in Windows XP, pretty much instantly. About 2 seconds for a build on 5/25, maybe faster for a 5/31 build.

[ChrisB]

It does seem strange, 0.7.2 (and the test one), are both slow to start up. I've re-downloaded and installed them onto a clean system, and defragged to compare to 0.7.1 but it still trumps them by a good 7 seconds or so.
7.1 is instant, click it and its there, the others takes around 8 seconds or so while it hogs the cpu (2000xp with 512 ram).

[legoman666]

All the plugins that are developed by the VideoLAN team itself are included in the VLC installer.

As for the startup speed problem, could you try this version:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... -win32.exe
and tell me if you still have the same problem ?
This version also uses upx but in the final release most plugins were built into the main executable since it is supposedly faster.

the main one from the site opens in about 5 seconds, the one you gave me the link takes 9.5 seconds.

[markfm]

WinXP Home, 384 MB, 2.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4, Intel integrated graphics.

I do have a well-defragmented system.

I downloaded the official VLC 0.7.2 Windows release, the Zip package version. Just unzipped the package to my desktop, opened the folder and launched vlc.

The size of the vlc.exe is 2565 KB

< 1 second start time

Could slow startup be related to the AMD chip (the initial post reported an Athlon)? Perhaps optimizations that don't work right with it?

[Guest]

I'm using an AMD 2400+ processor, and my startup times for 7.2 are two to three times longer than the previous versions.

[ChrisB]

Yeah and as i mentioned in the other post mines an AMD 2000xp (not overclocked)

[ChrisB]

Anyone got any other ideas of what it could be, seems strange its only happening on AMDs.
CPU usage starts off ate 100% for the first 6-7 seconds, but uses onlt 49k of ram. After this 6-7 seconds it starts using ram and opens up in about 2.

[Wasqer]

Im having the same problem, i have a brand new computer but it takes quite a long time to open the new version of vlc.

WinXP
AMD Ahtlon 2500+
512mb DDR PC3200

[The DJ]

This is definetly starting to look like a AMD problem.....

[Sagi]

I have the same problem, but its way worse, 30 seconds on an Pentium III 733Mhz and 640Mb RAM !!

[Gibalou]

Ok, I've uploaded 2 versions which are identical to the VLC-0.7.2 release except that one isn't compressed with upx (upx can transparently compress dlls and exe, which is supposed to give faster load time... which obviously doesn't work in your case) and the other one is still compressed with upx but at the minimum compression level (just to see if it changes anything).

Here are these 2 versions:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... -noupx.zip
http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... 2-upx1.zip

Could you all give them a test and report on which one is the fastest for you (with approximate loading times for each) ?

PS: as a side note, the next version of VLC will include a plugins cache feature which should reduce the loading time to a fraction of what it is now

[Sagi]

Ok, here are my benchmarks :

vlc-0.7.2-noupx : <1 second
vlc-0.7.2-upx1 : 25-30 seconds

(Pentium III 733Mhz and 640MB RAM)

[bakdai]

I have this same problem on my mac. I have a powerbook 1 ghz running the latest version of os x. I've had it for a while. I posted about it before but nobody was able to help me out.