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In the mean time, you can simply try renaming the file to 8 chars name + 3 chars extension, and it will mostly likely be as fast as before.

Nice catch! Can confirm: I copied the file to the local SSD and it start immediately.
But, the NAS is far from slow (it easily saturate a 1Gbit link), and previous versions of VLC had no problems.

Hi! Same thing is happening to me, and after Googlin' a bit I found this thread. For me, it definitely seems that it's reading / scanning the file for some reasons. For a typical 1GB/50min MKV it tooks 4-5 seconds before starting (on an i5-3.5GHz); but I have a 3GB .ts file that just doesn't seems t...