"File caching" and "Disc caching" should be set to 5000 ms at least in default settings. 5 seconds spin-up time is reasonable amount for optical disks and platter hard disks with energy saving features. This would prevent lots of stutter complaints.
I think this can't be fixed in VLC, because this is OS behavior. You can fix this yourself:
https://www.howtogeek.com/236711/how-to-turn-off-recent-items-and-frequent-places-in-windows-10
I've been translating VLC to Dutch for a while now. Recently I received an e-mail from someone who asked me to translate the program name (in the program list) too. He said that in French, VLC Media Player is called " Lecteur Multimédia VLC ". That's why he wants VLC to appear like " ...
If you pause VLC, and then hibernate, VLC crashes on restart of the pc. The older versions of VLC don't have this issue (i use it all the time so i can easily watch a movie in parts, without having to search for the time I left off over and over again). I hope this can be solved! Thanks in advance R...