How to stop building font cache in VLC Player while playing video files

How to stop building font cache in VLC Player while playing video files

If you are a movie or anime enthusiast, you’ve probably encountered the message saying “Building font cache” on VLC Player while playing an MKV or MP4 video. Then you see a progress bar that seems to get suck in 0% or 1%. While the pop up says “Please wait while your font cache is rebuilt. This should take less than a minute”, if you have a basic PC or laptop, the rebuilding process can take more than five minutes and in rare cases the VLC player itself will stop responding and you have to force close it. It can be very irritating when you have to unnecessarily wait for VLC to start playing your video files. The good thing is you can easily fix this irritating video playback delay by simple changing a settings option on VLC media Player.

How to stop building font cache in VLC Player on a Windows PC

The building font cache dialogue box appears on VLC Player while playing video files with embedded subtitles displayed at the bottom. Here is how you can disable font cache building on VLC Player:

• Open VLC Player
• Go to Tools >> Preferences
• On the bottom left, you will see “Show Settings” >> select “All”
• Now, go to Video >> Subtitles/OSD
• On the right, you will see “Text Rendering Module”
• Select “Dummy font renderer” from the drop down menu

After completing above steps, the “building font cache” dialogue message will stop displaying while playing video files. In case your VLC Player hangs up during the cache building process, you may have to delete the temporary app data. To fix this issue:

• Press windows key + r (to bring up “run” box)
• or simply press windows key and type “run” in windows search
• Type %appdata%
• Find the VLC folder and delete it

After deleting the VLC app data folder, VLC will build font cache from scratch and won’t freeze up this time.

To conclude, always make sure your VLC player is up to date. For this, open VLC Player >> go to “Help” >> Select “Check for Updates”. The latest version of VLC has cleared many bugs and improved video performance for different file formats inclyding .mkv. .mov, .mp4, .dat and .mpeg.

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Fixed Zenfone 2 stuck in recovery after wipe cache partition

Fixed Zenfone 2 stuck in recovery after wipe cache partition

Today I decided to wipe the cache partition of my Zenfone 2 because it was getting too slow. I thought this was going to be straightforward process but I would soon be proven wrong. Because the wiping was taking too long, I switched off my Zenfone 2 midway into wiping cache partition. When I switched it back on it would not boot. Instead, it  got stuck in fastboot and just showed a green sleeping(Dead) Android logo with an error! message. The error message kept flashing constantly and nothing would happen when I tried to enter the recovery by the usual method of pressing power + volume up at the same time and then releasing it. I thought it was just a minor bug that I could easily fix switching off and rebooting into recovery. Again, I just got a dead Android and couldn’t access the recovery options. However, since I could still boot into fastboot, I knew all hope wasn’t lost. Finally I was able to fix the problem by connecting the phone to my PC and running some Fastboot commands. If you are having this problem of a dead Zenfone 2 after using the wipe cache partition option in the recovery, here is how you can fix it:

How to fix Zenfone 2 Wipe Cache Partition Recovery Error

Zenfone 2 doesnt start (boot) after wipe cache partition

Before you begin, I really hope you have sufficient charge on your Zenfone 2. I had about 30% left before I messed up the recovery. If you have zero charge and your phone is not able to charge, you may not be able to use the below steps.

1. Install ADB/Fastboot drivers in your PC 
• Note: You may have to turn off your antivirus because it may detect the adb files as a malware.
2. Install Intel USB drivers for Android devices from here
3. Download these stock recovery and boot images from here (not sure if you really need them)
   boot.img | droidboot.img | recovery.img
4. Copy all of the img files to the same folder where the adb and fastboot files are located
5. Reboot Zenfone 2 in fastboot by pressing power + volume up key (Release power button after you hear/feel the buzz). Fastboot menu is basically the first menu from which you can choose Recovery. But don’t go into recovery yet.
6. Now connect you Zenfone 2 to your PC via USB
7. If you have installed the USB driver, the Zenfone 2 will be detected as an Android Device
8. Open Command Prompt and navigate to the folder where the adb and fastboot files are located
9. Run this command- Fastboot devices which checks whether your device is detected or not
10. Now run these commands one by one: 
• Fastboot erase cache 
• fastboot flash fastboot droidboot.img 
• fastboot flash recovery recovery.img 
• fastboot flash boot boot.img 

Note that you will get the "permission denied" error with each of these commands. Despite the errors my Zenfone 2 was fixed because after running these commands I could finally access the recovery menu. After completing the above commands, disconnect your Zenfone 2 and then go to recovery menu by using the volume key and then pressing power key to select it. Now you will notice that the sleeping android logo with error message is no longer blinking or flashing. Press and hold power button, then (while holding power button) press Volume up key and release it and then release the power button. It should now take you to the recovery menu. If that didn’t work try this: press power button + Volume and release the buttons at the same time.


Now you will finally see the recovery menu. Use the volume keys to highlight “Wipe Cache Partition” and this press the power button to select it. Wait till the wipe cache partition is completed. Now reboot the device and your ASUS Zenfone 2 will come back to life.

I hope my tip will help a lot of people who are experiencing the same dead Zenfone 2 issue after wiping the cache partition. Many people who went through this problem think they have bricked their Zenfone 2 for good but as you can see it’s actually very easily fixed.

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Cara Membersihkan Cache Pada Aplikasi Di Android

Cara Membersihkan Cache Pada Aplikasi Di Android

Cara Membersihkan Cache Aplikasi Android - Bagi anda yang smartphone nya sering lemot mungkin ada saatnya anda membersihkan cache pada aplikasi android, nah bicara soal cache mungkin banyak dari anda tidak mengenal, apa itu cache ? cache atau yang biasa dieja kech merupakan media penampung data sementara guna mempercepat kinerja sebuah aplikasi android ketika dibuka, dengan adanya cache kita dapat menggunakan aplikasi tertentu lebih cepat karena cache membantu cpu membaca pada aplikasi android yang sering kita buka sebelumnya.

Cache sendiri menyimpan data sementara pada aplikasi lewat memori terutama memori internal hp yang artinya semakin banyak memori yang terpakai cache maka semakin kecil ruang memori penyimpanan yang tersisa, selain itu kelebihan cache juga berdampak pada kinerja smartphone misal apabila sebuah aplikasi android menampung cache lebih dari 10mb maka aplikasi tersebut akan sedikit lemot saat dibuka, nah maka dari itulah membersihkan cache pada aplikasi android sangat penting guna mempercepat kinerja smartphone.

Cara Membersihkan Cache Di Android

Untuk membersihkan cache android anda harus melakukannya satu per satu pada aplikasi atau game, selain itu anda juga harus tahu kalau ketika cache dibersihkan maka data history pada aplikasi tersebut akan hilang, seperti akses login menjadi logout.

Cara Membersihkan Cache Di Android

1. Masuk ke setting atau setelan di hp android
2. Klik bagian apl atau aplikasi
3. Pilih aplikasi atau game yang akan kita bersihkan cache nya
4. Klik hapus cache
5. Selesai

Baiklah sobat, mungkin itu saja artikel pada kali ini tentang cara membersihkan cache aplikasi android, saran saya, sering-seringlah membersihkan cache aplikasi android guna meningkatkan kinerja smartphone atau tablet android anda.

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