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’.
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.
Thanks a lot Manideep. really it’s very helpful to me.
Thanks so much for the fix. One more little annoying problem solved!
thnxx bro.,.,. :D :D thnku so much,.,.
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!!
it saved my time. thank you and good luck
You deserve a gold star for this.
jst luvd this tip..cheers!!
My life is now so much better, thank you
Thanks a lot Manideep and techdows.com
Genius. Thank you!
Do you have any idea how many DAYS in my entire life you will have saved??
Thanks. VLC team is stupid for making this rebuild font cache everyday by default.
Yea dummy should be default with software idk what vlc is thinking. Thank you!!!
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 !
Fantastic! I’ve been looking for this solution.
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
not a good one…coz after doing so no subtitles cud b played…
thanks a million..
Thank you SOOO much. Every single file it was doing this, and this quick simple fixed solved everything. Thanks!
nope, doesn;t work on mkv files. Think of something else.
Thank you very much……..was messing up frm long.Finally Done!!!
Thank you a lot, God bless you.
This doesnt work for me as I get this message: Cannot save Configuration:
Preferences file could not be saved
Was really helpful. Thanx man. It was eating my brains lot of times.
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.
Which version of vlc r u using?, latest version already comes with it disabled by default
Now I can start my without waiting. Thanks!
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.
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.
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
not a good solution unless you are ok with disabling subtitles entirely, because that is what this will do.
that annoying font cache disappear forever thanks to ur post
thank you so much sir venkat! :D
Doesn’t work for me at all. Still comes up when I try to choose subtitles.
Which version of VLC player you’re using?
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