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After further investigation, i have found out that the information stated in my first post was incorrect (sorry about the confusion): After opening an mkv, vlc opens _all_ mkv's in the directory, just one thread per mkv. A directory with only 1 mkv opens only 1 thread. Would you know anything about ...

You can. But with no further informations, it's not likely to be fixed.

Can you tell me what kind of information you would need?

Thanks for your answer.

However, I tested Media Player Classic (with ffdshow) and this does not open an excessive number of threads for the x264 file. I really wish to play my files with VLC again, but the current situation makes that just impossible. Perhaps I could (or should) submit a bug report?

Further study shows that this happens with x264 mkv's but not with avi's. That leads me to believe it is not a problem with windows or samba...

I put this in general because I don't believe it is limited to an OS and it is about a combination with samba. Here's the situation: I keep my files on a debian server, and share them to my windows PC with samba, where I play them with VLC. Because my samba shares/harddisks on the server are fairly ...