A Windows Defender Bug Is Making VLC Take 30 Seconds to Open an MP3 File
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A Windows Defender bug is making VLC take 30 seconds to open an MP3 file
Is VLC media player taking tens of seconds to load an MP3 file just because open-source software development is now in an embarrassing state? Jonathan Blow, designer of puzzle games Braid and The Witness, accused the VideoLAN team of doing a very bad job with VLC programming. The VideoLAN team...Read Entire Article
VLC continues to be one of the most popular multimedia playback tools. However, many users in Windows 11 have reported abnormal behavior that makes audio file opening in a...
Devs blame Windows for VLC media player bug that causes 33-second delay when playing MP3 files — creators allege Microsoft Defender blocking plugin cache is to blame
Popular open-source media player VLC has run into an unusual issue on Windows 11 that causes it to take as long as 33 seconds to start playing a simple MP3 file, the side effect of a recent unexplained change to Windows. The issue was publicized after game developer Jonathan Blow said he had stopped using VLC in favor of Microsoft's Media Player because of the delay. He also used the incident to criticize the state of open-source software runnin…
VLC is one of those programs that we expect to respond immediately after opening an audio or video file. Meanwhile, on some Windows 11 computers, starting a regular MP3 file takes up to 33 seconds. VideoLAN argues that the problem isn't the player, but rather the popular Microsoft program. The creator of Braid has abandoned VLC. VideoLAN responded. The issue gained attention thanks to Jonathan Blow, creator of the games Braid and The Witness. Th…
VideoLAN accuses a fix to Microsoft Defender to significantly slow the opening of MP3 files in VLC under Windows 11 and Windows 10. The player development ticket, opened for several months, however, describes a problem more difficult to identify than a simple antivirus bug.
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