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What is VLC's 'building font cache' doing everytime I update the version?

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Mar 15, 202614765 views
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What is VLC's 'building font cache' doing everytime I update the version? It takes forever on my otherwise reasonably fast system. What is it doing?

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VLC is searching your system for the fonts it needs to use for subtitles and on screen messages. It takes time because it is searching your entire system, and copying the fonts it finds to its own directory, as I understand it. You can disable it as…

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