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How to disable Building Font Cache Dialog of VLC Player

Last updated on July 26, 2014 By Venkat

Building font cache dialog box of VLC Media Player

We’ve covered the purpose of Building Font Cache dialog box shown by VLC Player that appears whenever you try to play a media file, this turns out to be annoying for everyone. VLC only rebuilds font cache file to display subtitles in videos. Let us take a look at how to disable Building font Cache dialog of this open-source media Player.

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Disabling Building Font Cache dialog of VLC Media Player

1. Open VLC Player, click on Tools Menu and select ‘Preferences’,

2. On the left pane at the bottom, select All as option to show under “Show Settings” ,

3. Now expand Video entry on the left pane, and select “Subtitles/OSD” option under it.

4. On the right pane, for Text rendering module choose “Dummy font renderer” and click ‘Save’.

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5. Re-open VLC player and try to play any file/stream with subtitles, annoying Building Font Cache dialog won’t appear.

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Thanks to Manideep for letting us know about the solution.

Filed Under: How to, tips and tricks Tagged With: building font cache, building font cache in vlc, dialog, disable, vlc player

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  1. Rajasekhar says

    December 16, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    Thanks a lot Manideep. really it’s very helpful to me.

  2. fc42 says

    December 18, 2010 at 12:45 am

    Thanks so much for the fix. One more little annoying problem solved!

  3. Raminder says

    January 5, 2011 at 3:11 am

    thnxx bro.,.,. :D :D thnku so much,.,.

  4. tdec says

    January 11, 2011 at 12:06 am

    Thank you! I’ve never had the problem before recently formatting and reinstalling windows/vlc, and every time I’d open up a new file it would do this, so THANK YOU!!

  5. sheba says

    January 18, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    it saved my time. thank you and good luck

  6. gcat says

    January 26, 2011 at 6:18 am

    You deserve a gold star for this.

  7. ned says

    January 29, 2011 at 10:05 am

    jst luvd this tip..cheers!!

  8. Gerry says

    February 5, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    My life is now so much better, thank you

  9. Anasalikhan says

    February 9, 2011 at 2:14 am

    Thanks a lot Manideep and techdows.com

  10. Bob says

    February 12, 2011 at 7:31 am

    Genius. Thank you!

  11. YiuKorochko says

    February 25, 2011 at 6:27 am

    Do you have any idea how many DAYS in my entire life you will have saved??

  12. khjbkhbkhjb says

    March 13, 2011 at 9:45 am

    Thanks. VLC team is stupid for making this rebuild font cache everyday by default.

  13. Alex says

    March 14, 2011 at 4:00 am

    Yea dummy should be default with software idk what vlc is thinking. Thank you!!!

  14. YMMD says

    March 15, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    Thank you sooo much for this “trick”

    I searched months ago to get rid of this annoying “building font cache” in vlc..
    lot of people say to delete some pref. folder in the “appdata” folder…
    and I had to do this every time..

    But your solution is GREAT !!

    THANK YOU !

  15. Daniel says

    March 24, 2011 at 10:02 am

    Fantastic! I’ve been looking for this solution.

  16. franco says

    April 18, 2011 at 2:13 am

    the suggestion was god. however, I did not have such a prolem until I have installed the latest (today) version 1.1.10. I followed strictly the suggestion, ut it was impossible to save the settings. So, I have removed this latest version and resintalled the 1.1.5., I have followed the recommended settings in this thread and it has been saved. Everyting OK now.
    In my case, the bug has been fixed going to an earleir version.

    Kind regards

    Franco

  17. cera says

    May 1, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    not a good one…coz after doing so no subtitles cud b played…

  18. Ela says

    May 11, 2011 at 3:42 am

    thanks a million..

  19. nko12 says

    May 17, 2011 at 9:39 am

    Thank you SOOO much. Every single file it was doing this, and this quick simple fixed solved everything. Thanks!

  20. pm says

    June 22, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    nope, doesn;t work on mkv files. Think of something else.

  21. Abhimanyu says

    August 14, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    Thank you very much……..was messing up frm long.Finally Done!!!

  22. TebogoZa says

    September 18, 2011 at 2:04 am

    Thank you a lot, God bless you.

  23. John_arr says

    September 21, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    This doesnt work for me as I get this message: Cannot save Configuration:
    Preferences file could not be saved

  24. Rusty says

    January 15, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    Was really helpful. Thanx man. It was eating my brains lot of times.

  25. Nathalie says

    September 21, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    This doesn’t work for me anymore. It used to, but even though I changed it to “Dummy font renderer” and it’s being saved, that stupid dialogue box still shows up, and goes on loading forever. I have no idea what to do about this.

    • Venkat says

      September 22, 2012 at 11:38 am

      Which version of vlc r u using?, latest version already comes with it disabled by default

  26. John Jason says

    December 24, 2012 at 1:24 am

    Now I can start my without waiting. Thanks!

  27. John Comeau says

    April 18, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    Ah nope, disregard my first comment above.
    Current date, Windows 8 Pro 64-bit using the latest VLC 2.0.6;
    Using this method (Dummy font rendering functions), “building font cache” dialog still appears playing .mkv with .ssa subtitle embedded on video. And while you are in this settings, .srt subtitles and titles won’t show up on screen.

    • Venkat eswarlu says

      April 18, 2013 at 8:15 pm

      That’s strange!, but FYI Font cache for windows has already been removed from VLC 1.1.11 onwards which was said by Vidoelan’s Felix Paul Khune to me when I asked him in his blog.
      If the above method doesn’t work nothing can we do except I suggest you to uninstall and reinstall VLC while uninstalling make sure you delete cache and other data as well.
      And disabling font cache method has not tested by me on Windows 8 yet.

  28. John Comeau says

    May 2, 2013 at 2:26 am

    Yeah really strange! Expecting this to be fixed on latest version but my system also a latest one and it’s a free app so that’s OK for me :P

    I already did uninstalling and clear cache and data.

    I just have to get rid of the “Building Font Cache” dialog until it plays video then everything’s okay. But when Font Cache dialog shows up again with other subtitle format, the video won’t play and dialog stays forever until I delete the CACHE-3 file on AppData folder so VLC creates another cache for the new video…

    Just getting used to it. XD

  29. bob says

    December 10, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    not a good solution unless you are ok with disabling subtitles entirely, because that is what this will do.

  30. Wolver says

    January 1, 2014 at 8:47 am

    that annoying font cache disappear forever thanks to ur post

  31. Wen says

    February 18, 2014 at 11:31 pm

    thank you so much sir venkat! :D

  32. Dan says

    March 8, 2014 at 8:54 am

    Doesn’t work for me at all. Still comes up when I try to choose subtitles.

    • Venkat eswarlu says

      March 9, 2014 at 5:59 am

      Which version of VLC player you’re using?

  33. Jonathan says

    September 11, 2015 at 4:31 am

    To those who don’t know, this disables subtitles entirely by switching the renderer to a stub that doesn’t actually do anything. Useless for people that use subtitles regularly

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