because it stores a font cache and someone working on VLC decided that should be rebuilt every once in a while

you need to be more specific if you want a less retarded answer.

>>52186961
why does it take more than a minute?
I have a good pc

>this should take less than a minute
>takes over 10

>quit, launch again
>plays the file fine without rebuilding it

sleek programming

>>52186954
happening the same on OS X, fixed it with mpv.

>>52186954
People still use this software?

Just use mpv like any sane person

>>52187552
No I will not use meme player 5

>>52187552
>any sane person would use that piece of shit.

>>52186970
it's probably doing something stupid like indexing a bunch of shit that it shouldn't need to. VLC isn't efficiently designed. Its primary redeeming quality is that it will attempt to handle practically any media file and succeed at some shitty baseline.

>>52186954
>>using VLC
>why
ftfy

>there's people on this board that are not using Light Alloy
Poor linux users can't use light alloy (maybe with some emulation, I don't know) so they're justified, but you windows user have no excuse!
Just fucking use light alloy you slackers!

>>52187636
Thanks, that actually looks useful