VLC Media Player 3.0.8 is taking a long time to launch on my Windows 10 PC. It typically takes 6 seconds or more. I have a class 50 SSD, Six Core Xeon 2.90GHz, etc.
How can I speed up the loading time of VLC?
Windows – Opening VLC media player 3 takes a long time to open
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This is the solution that worked best for me: there was a video stream I had to play in VLC because RTMP is/was poorly supported in my preferred media player, MPCHC (which has this feature builtin to the numpad keys). This stream had both vertical and horizontal letterboxes and when I needed to zoom it, I realized the thing.
Just use the crop function: if you leave default aspect ratio options the video will scale to fit the window, thus giving the zooming effect!
To access cropping you need to first open the Tools menu, then click Effects and Filters or just use the default CTRL+E shortcut.
Then you need to select the Video Effects tab, and navigate to the Crop sub-tab: play with the cropping values to achieve the desired zoom level.
Final Remarks: You can fine-tune it during play and you have pixel-level control. Enjoy!
I've tried this, and it works:
rtsp://mediai.mcot.net/fm1005
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Best Answer
There can be many causes for a slow launch in VLC 3, but here are two solutions I've confirmed help:
Solution A
VLCwin7User on the VideoLan forums came up a solution that I will paraphrase and add to:
Bring up an administrative command prompt in the vlc.exe directory. This would typically be
C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLCfor 32-bit, orC:\Program Files\VideoLan\VLCfor 64-bit.(To bring up an administrative prompt in this directory, open the Start menu and type
cmd. Right click onCommand Promptand selectRun as administrator. Then typecd, space, and then the VLC directory, and press enter.)Issue
vlc-cache-gen .\pluginsenter... which generates \plugins\plugins.datThis brought launch time down to less than a second on my machine.
Solution B
This is the solution I had originally tried, but it only reduced the launch time by about 25%. I'm putting it here for completeness. I did not notice this making much difference after using Solution A from above.
show settings>Allfrom the bottom left cornerAdvancedsection, uncheck "Scan for new plugins"