Saturday, March 19, 2011

VLC rebuilding font cache stuck - Solution

 This post gives you solution to vlc media player rebuilding font cache message stuck when tries to play any kind of media file.

Occasionally when starting a media file on VLC media player, a dialog box saying rebuilding font cache accompanied by "Please wait while your font cache is rebuilt  This should take less than a few minutes"  would occur. This will happen every time when you first play VLC Player with any file/stream after its installation.VLC rebuilds fonts cache to show subtitles for files which are shown at bottom of screen while playing.

Rarely this message box may hang and the media file may not be played. If Building font cache dialog box stuck and showing this message each time whenever you play a file in VLC, you can do the following to prevent this.

  • Type %appdata% in the run command box
  • Find the folder named VLC from C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data
  • Delete the folder VLC
This will make VLC to freshly rebuilds font cache. from now onwards you will be able to play files without font cache rebuilding message.

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1 comments:

Joanne said...

Thanks for this quickfix on the VLC player. I often use it to play my DVD's on my computer, which is hooked to my home theatre brisbane system.

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