Re: VLC stalls from time to time when listening through MMS (protocol)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:47:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:

> I sometimes listen to an MMS flux with VLC 0.8.6h w. wxWidgets
> interface. Everything goes fine during a given amount of time (which can
> be ~5 hours), and I then hear nothing from my speakers. I then press the
> `Stop' button in VLC's GUI, and it then shows me
> 
> `Unable to open 'mms://216.155.136.196:80/powerhi?MSWMExt=.asf''
> 
> Okay, I then press `Play' and it works just as before. Why?

Hard to tell.

Maybe a network connection glitch that makes the player to stop buffering 
the streamed data and leaves the application in a "hold/waiting" state.

Does it happen regardless the media player or the source URL? 

I mean, have you tested with another player and/or with another media 
source to check if it also happens the same way? :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón