Solved VLC Media Player is slow to start these days, anyone else?

Berton · Jan 15, 2025

Confusing, installed .21 and the .exe file is still showing .20

dacrone · Jan 15, 2025

mine too. not a big deal though. was only minor fixes.

RD Mercer · Jan 15, 2025

dacrone · Jan 15, 2025

who knows why..

abactuon · Jan 16, 2025

Vetinari is cool, I wonder what the next version will be called.

hdmi · Jan 16, 2025

VLC is good for streaming video over a LAN and for the fact that it plays popular video file formats without needing to install any codecs separately.

But when it comes to things like low power consumption or eliminating stutter/choppiness during playback of those specific video files that are a little bit more demanding on low powered hardware or hardware that you have limited the power consumption of (i.e., to make it perform silent during the playback...), K-Lite Codec Pack Full with MPC-HC and madVR is, and always has been, king of the hill. Full end of story.

cheaterslick · Jan 16, 2025

Anytime I run an mp4 file in VLC, I get a hiccup and it hesitates for a few seconds and then it plays.

Only does it on mp4 files, not mkv or avi

VLC is set as my default player. Don't know what's going on. Sometimes I get a corrupt file message in the message bar at the bottom of the window, but then it goes away. And I know the file isn't corrupt.

hdmi · Jan 16, 2025

cheaterslick said:
Anytime I run an mp4 file in VLC, I get a hiccup and it hesitates for a few seconds and then it plays.

Only does it on mp4 files, not mkv or avi

VLC is set as my default player. Don't know what's going on. Sometimes I get a corrupt file message in the message bar at the bottom of the window, but then it goes away. And I know the file isn't corrupt.

Download both K-Lite Codec Pack Full and K-Lite Codec Pack Update. Codec Guide: K-Lite Codec Pack - For Windows 11 / 10 / 8.1 / 7
Choose MPC-HC as the default player, and (optionally) choose what specific filetypes you want it to be the default player for. And choose madVR as the renderer. There are a whole plethora of other settings, and although there is a bit of a learning curve, most settings can be left at their default. If you don't know what a setting is for, then I highly suggest that you just leave that setting alone until you found your answer.

Again, once you see what makes MPC-HC + madVR superior to all other players, there is no going back. The primary reason why VLC is more popular is due to a persistent lack of awareness among most of its users.

RD Mercer · Jan 16, 2025

hdmi said:
The primary reason why VLC is more popular is due to a persistent lack of awareness among most of its users.

Could you elaborate a bit for us dummies? I have been using it for years, with no issues whatsoever. You think maybe I might have a spiritual connection to it?

cheaterslick · Jan 16, 2025

I had to uninstall the K-Lite Codec pack a few months ago. It was literally causing Windows Explorer to freeze whenever I played anything video. Once uninstalled, things got a lot better and it's not nearly as bad as it used to be.

I too have been using VLC for many years and used to never have an issue with mp4s until the last year or so.

hdmi · Jan 16, 2025

RD Mercer said:
Could you elaborate a bit for us dummies? I have been using it for years, with no issues whatsoever. You think maybe I might have a spiritual connection to it?

I wasn't just talking about issues. VLC can also be downloaded from the same website (see the link I posted above) so, there really is no such thing as a holy inquisition against VLC. Neither solution can be perfect, but that in fact is why you'll just have to open your own eyes and see the light. Or keep refusing to see the light, like the majority of VLC users. It really is that simple, and, it happens a lot.

RD Mercer · Jan 16, 2025

hdmi said:
I wasn't just talking about issues. VLC can also be downloaded from the same website (see the link I posted above) so, there really is no such thing as a holy inquisition against VLC. Neither solution can be perfect, but that in fact is why you'll just have to open your own eyes and see the light. Or keep refusing to see the light, like the majority of VLC users. It really is that simple, and, it happens a lot.

I was a fool to wander and stray. .For straight is the gate and narrows the way.. Now I have traded the wrong for the right
Praise the Lord, I saw the light

hdmi · Jan 16, 2025

RD Mercer said:
I was a fool to wander and stray. .For straight is the gate and narrows the way.. Now I have traded the wrong for the right
Praise the Lord, I saw the light

And the Lord spoke unto John, "Come forth and receive eternal life".
But John came fifth and won a fondue set.

Melchior · Jan 16, 2025

dacrone said:
"VLC 3.0.21 will not be released as MSI nor with automatic updates due to regressions." prob wont get the update. they pulled it from auto for whatever "regressions" means lol.

MSI Release of 3.0.21 - The VideoLAN Forums

forum.videolan.org

Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/
public release database

or front end

VLC 3.0.21 Vetinari - VideoLAN

www.videolan.org

ooh so that is whats up..
I wonder why they didn't pull v3.0.21 from the front end website too..??

Melchior · Jan 16, 2025

I just tested out v3.0.20 by downgrading my install of VLC Media Player.
and this issues seems to have gone away.
that is the 1.3GB movie file opened immediately without delay...
Huway lol.

cheaterslick · Jan 16, 2025

Melchior said:
ooh so that is whats up..
I wonder why they didn't pull v3.0.21 from the front end website too..??

That's the version I have, but my mp4 problems started long before this.

Melchior · Jan 16, 2025

I just tested the newest nightly build for v3.0.21_2025-01-16
and the issue of slow load times was not present, so they might have fixed it, it seems.

Index of /vlc-3.0/nightly-win64/20250116-0216/

Winuser · Jan 16, 2025

hdmi said:
Neither solution can be perfect, but that in fact is why you'll just have to open your own eyes and see the light. Or keep refusing to see the light, like the majority of VLC users. It really is that simple, and, it happens a lot.

As a User of VLC for years, I'm not sure how I should take that statement.

cheaterslick · Jan 16, 2025

VLC has been the standard alternative to that sh*tty built-in Windows Media Player that many people complain about. I've been using it for about 15 years or so, as far back as XP days. It usually plays anything and everything. That's why I like it. You don't have to install any extra codec packs. The codecs are built right in.

In fact, the hiccups I've been experiencing seem to have more to do with Windows Explorer stalling out for a few seconds than the VLC player itself. Once VLC kicks in and opens up, it plays the file smoothly.

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