VLC Slow to play files from network share with lots of files

[yds]

If I try to play any file on a network share that has a lot of other media files in it, VLC is extremely slow to start playing. During the time I wait, there appears to be a lot of network traffic. If I leave it long enough, the file will start playing, but it in a folder with about 600 files, it takes about 5 minutes before one of the files starts playing. If I move any of those files to a folder with just the one file, it plays immediately. Is there some setting I can change to stop this behaviour??

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

For mounted file systems, you can disable sub-autodetect-file in the VLC configuration to turn off directory listing.

[yds]

Perfect! That was it exactly! Now starts playing files immediately. Thanks Remi!!