A bit more info. This indeed seems to be something related to some kind of scanning. After Mark referring to files on the NAS, mine are also on a NAS. So, I tried copying it to a local drive and they were indeed much faster to open. This indicates it might have something to do with limited bandwith ...
Simply openning VLC takes the same time as it usually did in the previous version, it just when opening a video file that it takes a very long time (either by doublic clicking it, or drag-dropping it into VLC - the file title shows up quickly in the VLC title, but then it stays like that - black vid...
I upgraded to VLC 2.2.0, and suddently all the videos I used to play without incident in the previous versions started taking a very long time to open up (over 30-60sec in some cases). I tried removing, clearing all settings, (making sure the folder was deleted) and reinstalling, and the problem rem...