Building Font Cache, VLC And MPlayer Troubleshooting
Nothing is more frustrating than having to wait until a media player has finished building the font cache, before a video can be played on the local computer system. Especially so, if the “building font cache†window appears every time the media player is used to play videos.
The first question that comes to mind is this: Why is there a font cache at all? It's video, not some textual content that is displayed in the program window. The font cache apparently is used for subtitles and On Screen Displays (OSD). Both VLC Media Player and MPlayer (and variants like SMPlayer) make use of a font cache to display subtitles and OSD.
Nothing is more frustrating than having to wait until a media player has finished building the font cache, before a video can be played on the local computer system. Especially so, if the “building font cache†window appears every time the media player is used to play videos.
The first question that comes to mind is this: Why is there a font cache at all? It's video, not some textual content that is displayed in the program window. The font cache apparently is used for subtitles and On Screen Displays (OSD). Both VLC Media Player and MPlayer (and variants like SMPlayer) make use of a font cache to display subtitles and OSD.
