Disable VLC Building Font Cache

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The VLC player, which stands for VideoLAN Client player, is one of the most popular video players in the market. It can play most video files regardless of formats. For Windows user, this is definitely a good news as it is a better replacement for Windows Media Player and most of all, it’s free.

The VLC player can be easily recognized with an orange traffic cone logo. However, it does come with a minor annoyance, and in this case, it is the Font Cache dialog window, which pops up every time when you start to use the player. It can be a bit irritating especially if you have to click the cancel button every time you are watching a video.

So, what exactly is a font cache and how to disable it?

What is a font cache?

When watching movies, there are several occasions when different font styles are used in the movies. To help solving the problem, the VLC Building font cache window pops out every time because it can make the subtitles to become clearer on your screen. So VLC developers have created a font fig that contains a list of all the fonts available in this world.

How to get rid of the font cache

Removing the building font cache is easy and can be done in just a few steps. You just need to complete the following instructions to disable the building font cache window:

1. Open the VLC player by clicking on the traffic cone icon. From the Tools Menu selection, click preferences.

2. On the lower left part of the window you can see a check box labeled as All. Click the tiny box beside it.

3. Click on the expand video tab on the left side of the window and select the subtitles/OSD option.

4. On the right side of the same window you will see the drop down menu. Click on Dummy font rendering functions.

5. After that, its time to check if the video is working properly. Re-open the VLC player by clicking on the traffic cone icon. Play the video or movie with subtitles, and as you will notice the Building Font Cache dialog box will not appear anymore.

Voila! No more annoying pop-ups at the welcome screen.