Joost 1.0 Beta is out
Joost has released yet another version of their acclaimed Internet TV client that streams prerecorded TV shows to PCs that run the client software.The new version has one feature in particular that was well overdue. Joost can now be updated from within the client. Users do not have to download and install new versions from the Joost website anymore.
Several changes have been introduced to the user interface as well which give Joost a cleaner look. It is now also possible to create links from within Joost that point to TV shows which you can then share with other users of the service so that they too can tune right into the stream and watch the show on their computer.
I did encounter a new bug however which can be rather serious. Joost did not start up when I clicked on the application, and what made it worse than that was the fact that I also could not terminate the process on the system as it could not be killed. It used 99% of cpu resources at that time and there was nothing left to do but to restart the whole computer.
Deleting the Joost directory in Application Data did not help either which means that my computer running Windows XP is not able to start Joost at the moment.
The shows offered at Joost are still considered B-content by many including me. Unless they really add some high quality content they are doomed to fail even with all the news coverage that they get. Let me know if you want a Joost invitation and I send it out using Joost on my Windows Vista notebook.
Update: Joost has been paused - that is how the developers of the service call it - for the time being. Neither the software nor the website are available anymore at the time of writing and it is not clear if the service will make a comeback at one point in time or if it is gone forever.
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Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?